Strategic Finance Associate

LangChain LangChain · Data AI · New York, NY · Finance

LangChain is seeking a Strategic Finance Associate to own financial models, forecasting, go-to-market planning, and investor reporting. This role will partner closely with various departments to ensure financial clarity informs decisions and will actively use AI tools to accelerate work and scale the finance function. The ideal candidate has a mix of investment banking/PE rigor and early-stage operator scrappiness, with strong financial modeling and communication skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and maintain financial models across revenue forecasting, headcount planning, and cost and gross margin analysis
  2. Own Board and investor reporting: packaging financial results, variance analysis, and forward-looking narratives into clear, accurate materials
  3. Build dashboards and reporting that give leadership real-time visibility into revenue, burn, unit economics, and key operating metrics
  4. Partner with Sales and RevOps on go-to-market planning, quota modeling, pipeline analysis, and CAC payback tracking
  5. Support fundraising, investor relations, and strategic transactions, including M&A and partnerships, with data-driven analysis and materials

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in finance, with a mix of investment banking, FP&A, or strategic finance at a high-growth tech company
  • Strong financial modeling skills: you can build a clean, well-structured model from scratch and explain it to a non-finance audience
  • Experience supporting or owning Board and investor reporting in a startup or growth-stage company
  • Familiarity with SaaS or usage-based business models, including ARR, NRR, CAC, and LTV metrics
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity - you don't need a fully defined scope to do good work
  • Clear written and verbal communication; you'll be presenting to leadership and partnering with people across every team

Nice to have

  • You run to the roar: you lean into hard problems, ambiguity, and fast-moving challenges
  • A genuine interest in AI tools and how they can improve the way finance work gets done
  • You have start-up DNA: You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with fast-moving teams where scope and priorities evolve.
  • You are motivated to build something great: you hold a high bar for quality, craft, and impact.
  • You embrace hot takes: you share informed opinions, challenge the status quo, and engage in constructive debate
  • You operate with maximum agency: you take ownership, move work forward independently, and help others unblock

What the JD emphasized

  • financial clarity informs decisions
  • AI tools actively
  • scale our finance function
  • analytical rigor of investment banking or private equity
  • scrappiness and speed of an early-stage operator
  • build a three-statement model
  • negotiate a vendor contract
  • turning data and frameworks into the decisions that move the business forward
  • Build and maintain financial models
  • Own Board and investor reporting
  • Build dashboards and reporting
  • Partner with Sales and RevOps
  • Support fundraising, investor relations, and strategic transactions
  • Work cross-functionally with Marketing, EPD, and People
  • Drive procurement, vendor evaluation, and cost optimization
  • Support the accounting close process
  • Take on high-priority, ambiguous projects
  • Identify and solve operational bottlenecks
  • Identify process gaps and build systems
  • using AI tools where they add real leverage
  • keep finance running efficiently at scale
  • 5+ years of experience in finance
  • Strong financial modeling skills
  • Experience supporting or owning Board and investor reporting
  • Familiarity with SaaS or usage-based business models
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity
  • A genuine interest in AI tools
  • how they can improve the way finance work gets done
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • You have start-up DNA
  • You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
  • You are motivated to build something great
  • You hold a high bar for quality, craft, and impact
  • You embrace hot takes
  • You operate with maximum agency