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Strategic Finance is a lean, high-impact team that sits at the center of Rivian's most critical executive decisions.
The team owns Rivian's Long-Range Financial Plan (LRP)—the foundational roadmap connecting corporate ambition with resource requirements and capital strategy. Beyond enterprise planning, the team evaluates major corporate transactions, novel commercial structures, capital allocation decisions, and strategic partnerships. The team has been involved in helping Rivian raise more than $15 billion in capital across equity, debt, joint venture, and strategic partnership transactions, including Rivian's partnership with Uber and its Department of Energy loan program.
Our scope extends across the entire enterprise, partnering with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Corporate Development, Accounting, and Investor Relations to turn high-level strategy into concrete, auditable plans.
Role Summary
As a Senior Strategic Finance Analyst, you will take on unstructured, high-stakes financial questions that shape Rivian's financial trajectory. You will lead the development of novel business cases, pressure-test investment economics, and evaluate strategic opportunities with direct visibility to the C-Suite and executive leadership.
This role is designed for a self-directed modeler who combines rigorous financial fundamentals with strong business intuition. You will take ownership of complex projects from end to end—scoping the question, gathering and diligencing assumptions across cross-functional teams, building robust financial frameworks from scratch, and synthesizing recommendations into executive-ready narratives.
Why This Role Matters
- Steward Enterprise Trajectory: Own core components of Rivian's Long-Range Financial Plan (LRP) to align product roadmaps, capacity plans, and multi-year operations with corporate cash runway and capital strategy.
- Architect New Business Cases: Build rigorous financial models from the ground up to evaluate new market entries, technology investments, commercial partnerships, and make-vs-buy decisions.
- Rigorous Cross-Functional Diligence: Partner directly with technical leaders across Engineering, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Operations to diligence assumptions, challenge consensus, and ensure data integrity.
- Shape C-Suite Decisions: Translate multi-layered, multi-scenario financial models into crisp memos and executive presentations that drive rapid decision-making.
- Modernize Financial Workflows: Integrate advanced analytics and modern AI productivity tools to accelerate data synthesis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario iteration.
- Build Models from Scratch: Develop dynamic, clean, fully auditable three-statement models, DCFs, and scenario frameworks from zero without existing templates.
- Scope & Diligence Business Cases: Take ambiguous strategic questions, define the problem statement, source data from cross-functional partners, stress-test cost/revenue assumptions, and identify key sensitivity variables.
- Lead Long-Range Plan Workstreams: Maintain and enhance core LRP models, partnering with FP&A, Accounting, and business partners to ensure assumptions align with actual financial reporting and historical baselines.
- Run Scenario & Sensitivity Analyses: Model complex "what-if" trade-offs covering volume variations, cost-down roadmaps, pricing dynamics, and capital-intensity shifts.
- Translate Finance into Action: Synthesize technical and financial complexity into punchy, high-impact executive decks, strategy memos, and board-level materials.
- Drive Cross-Functional Consensus: Serve as the connective tissue across Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Accounting to ensure numbers tie out and strategic initiatives remain financially grounded.
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 3–4+ years of total experience, ideally starting in Investment Banking or Transaction Advisory (FDD), followed by Strategic Finance, Corporate Development, or Private Equity.
- Advanced Financial Modeling Capabilities: Proven track record of building dynamic 3-statement operating models, returns analyses (IRR/NPV), and complex scenario frameworks from scratch under tight timelines.
- Accounting Foundation: Strong grasp of US GAAP, financial statement mechanics, revenue recognition, and capital accounting to ensure models tie out seamlessly to actuals.
- Strong project management skills, with demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, reconciling conflicting data, and driving consensus.
- Executive Communication: Demonstrated ability to distill nuanced financial outputs into concise written memos and executive slide decks for senior leadership.
- Project Ownership & Influence: Strong interpersonal skill set to independently lead workstreams, run cross-functional meetings, diligence technical assumptions with non-finance teams, and tactfully challenge inputs.
- Passion for the mission: a genuine interest in energy, mobility, and sustainability.
Preferred Qualifications
- AI & Modern Workflow Fluency: Practical experience leveraging frontier AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini) or automated scripting to accelerate research, financial logic checks, and workflow efficiency.
- Platform Exposure: Exposure to modern data warehouses and planning tools (e.g., SAP, Oracle EPM, Databricks) is a plus.
- Sector Familiarity: Prior experience in hardware manufacturing, automotive/EV, clean energy, or deep tech capital investments.
About the Strategic Finance Team
Strategic Finance is a lean, high-impact team that sits at the center of Rivian's most critical executive decisions.
The team owns Rivian's Long-Range Financial Plan (LRP)—the foundational roadmap connecting corporate ambition with resource requirements and capital strategy. Beyond enterprise planning, the team evaluates major corporate transactions, novel commercial structures, capital allocation decisions, and strategic partnerships. The team has been involved in helping Rivian raise more than $15 billion in capital across equity, debt, joint venture, and strategic partnership transactions, including Rivian's partnership with Uber and its Department of Energy loan program.
Our scope extends across the entire enterprise, partnering with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Corporate Development, Accounting, and Investor Relations to turn high-level strategy into concrete, auditable plans.
Role Summary
As a Senior Strategic Finance Analyst, you will take on unstructured, high-stakes financial questions that shape Rivian's financial trajectory. You will lead the development of novel business cases, pressure-test investment economics, and evaluate strategic opportunities with direct visibility to the C-Suite and executive leadership.
This role is designed for a self-directed modeler who combines rigorous financial fundamentals with strong business intuition. You will take ownership of complex projects from end to end—scoping the question, gathering and diligencing assumptions across cross-functional teams, building robust financial frameworks from scratch, and synthesizing recommendations into executive-ready narratives.
Why This Role Matters
- Steward Enterprise Trajectory: Own core components of Rivian's Long-Range Financial Plan (LRP) to align product roadmaps, capacity plans, and multi-year operations with corporate cash runway and capital strategy.
- Architect New Business Cases: Build rigorous financial models from the ground up to evaluate new market entries, technology investments, commercial partnerships, and make-vs-buy decisions.
- Rigorous Cross-Functional Diligence: Partner directly with technical leaders across Engineering, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Operations to diligence assumptions, challenge consensus, and ensure data integrity.
- Shape C-Suite Decisions: Translate multi-layered, multi-scenario financial models into crisp memos and executive presentations that drive rapid decision-making.
- Modernize Financial Workflows: Integrate advanced analytics and modern AI productivity tools to accelerate data synthesis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario iteration.
- Build Models from Scratch: Develop dynamic, clean, fully auditable three-statement models, DCFs, and scenario frameworks from zero without existing templates.
- Scope & Diligence Business Cases: Take ambiguous strategic questions, define the problem statement, source data from cross-functional partners, stress-test cost/revenue assumptions, and identify key sensitivity variables.
- Lead Long-Range Plan Workstreams: Maintain and enhance core LRP models, partnering with FP&A, Accounting, and business partners to ensure assumptions align with actual financial reporting and historical baselines.
- Run Scenario & Sensitivity Analyses: Model complex "what-if" trade-offs covering volume variations, cost-down roadmaps, pricing dynamics, and capital-intensity shifts.
- Translate Finance into Action: Synthesize technical and financial complexity into punchy, high-impact executive decks, strategy memos, and board-level materials.
- Drive Cross-Functional Consensus: Serve as the connective tissue across Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Accounting to ensure numbers tie out and strategic initiatives remain financially grounded.
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 3–4+ years of total experience, ideally starting in Investment Banking or Transaction Advisory (FDD), followed by Strategic Finance, Corporate Development, or Private Equity.
- Advanced Financial Modeling Capabilities: Proven track record of building dynamic 3-statement operating models, returns analyses (IRR/NPV), and complex scenario frameworks from scratch under tight timelines.
- Accounting Foundation: Strong grasp of US GAAP, financial statement mechanics, revenue recognition, and capital accounting to ensure models tie out seamlessly to actuals.
- Strong project management skills, with demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, reconciling conflicting data, and driving consensus.
- Executive Communication: Demonstrated ability to distill nuanced financial outputs into concise written memos and executive slide decks for senior leadership.
- Project Ownership & Influence: Strong interpersonal skill set to independently lead workstreams, run cross-functional meetings, diligence technical assumptions with non-finance teams, and tactfully challenge inputs.
- Passion for the mission: a genuine interest in energy, mobility, and sustainability.
Preferred Qualifications
- AI & Modern Workflow Fluency: Practical experience leveraging frontier AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini) or automated scripting to accelerate research, financial logic checks, and workflow efficiency.
- Platform Exposure: Exposure to modern data warehouses and planning tools (e.g., SAP, Oracle EPM, Databricks) is a plus.
- Sector Familiarity: Prior experience in hardware manufacturing, automotive/EV, clean energy, or deep tech capital investments.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Strategic Finance Analyst
Target employers with a sponsorship track record
Tech companies, investment banks, and management consulting firms sponsor Strategic Finance Analysts at high rates. Search Migrate Mate to find employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for finance roles recently.
Lead with your degree field, not just your job title
Visa officers assess whether your degree directly relates to the role. A finance, economics, or accounting degree strengthens your specialty occupation case significantly. Business administration degrees can work but require tighter documentation.
Understand what makes this role a specialty occupation
Strategic Finance requires theoretical and practical application of financial modeling, forecasting, and business strategy. That analytical depth, not general business work, is what supports the specialty occupation determination in your petition.
Get the job description right before filing
USCIS scrutinizes job descriptions for finance roles. The posting should specify degree requirements in a relevant field, not just prefer them. Vague descriptions are a common reason petitions get challenged or receive Requests for Evidence.
Private equity and SaaS companies often sponsor without hesitation
High-growth SaaS and PE-backed firms frequently hire Strategic Finance Analysts and are accustomed to sponsoring. They move faster than traditional corporations and often have immigration counsel already engaged for the process.
Australian nationals should ask about E-3 specifically
The E-3 visa skips the H-1B lottery entirely and is available year-round. If you hold Australian citizenship, this is often the faster path. Many employers who hesitate on H-1B sponsorship will readily file an E-3 petition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Strategic Finance Analyst role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, Strategic Finance Analyst qualifies as a specialty occupation under H-1B visa standards. The role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in finance, economics, accounting, or a closely related field. USCIS expects the degree to be a normal minimum for the position, not just a preference, so the job description must reflect that requirement clearly.
What degree do I need for an employer to sponsor me as a Strategic Finance Analyst?
A bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, mathematics, or business with a finance concentration is the standard. Degrees in adjacent fields like statistics or engineering can work if you can show the coursework directly supports financial modeling and analysis. A general business administration degree alone can create complications during adjudication and may require additional documentation.
How likely is a Strategic Finance Analyst to get H-1B sponsorship approved?
Approval rates for finance specialty occupations are solid when the job description is precise and the degree aligns directly with the role. Challenges arise when job postings describe broad responsibilities or list degree requirements loosely. Working at a company with established immigration counsel significantly improves outcomes, as petition language is critical for this job category.
Do Strategic Finance Analyst roles come with RFEs more often than other finance jobs?
Finance roles generally receive more Requests for Evidence than engineering or medical roles because USCIS sometimes questions whether a specific degree is required. Strategic Finance, with its emphasis on forecasting, financial modeling, and business strategy, holds up better than general analyst titles. Precise job descriptions and employer documentation of degree requirements reduce RFE risk meaningfully.
Where can I find Strategic Finance Analyst jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international candidates and filters for employers who sponsor visas, so you're not sorting through postings that won't work for your situation. Strategic Finance roles on Migrate Mate tend to come from tech, SaaS, and finance employers who are already familiar with H-1B and E-3 visa processes and have counsel in place.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Strategic Finance Analyst jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.