Strategic Finance Manager

About the Role at RobCo

RobCo is building the category of Autonomous Industrial Robotics and we're doing it fast. We believe that automating the ordinary frees humans to do the extraordinary, and we're building the end-to-end robotics infrastructure to make that possible - hardware, software, and AI in one stack that just works.

 

At RobCo, we automate the ordinary, so humans can do the extraordinary. To achieve this, we are looking for an ambitious Manager, Strategic Finance to help us establish RobCo as leading provider of automation solutions.

The Strategic Finance Manager, will drive financial modeling and make structured data-informed recommendations to leadership on key strategic decisions including capital allocation, fundraising, and budgeting. Key responsibilities include maintaining and improving the operating model, partnering with business leaders to establish expense and headcount budgets, and proposing and implementing new tools and processes across Germany and the US. This is a full-time position with a strong preference for candidates who are able to come into our Austin office twice per week. Remote candidates will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Your Responsibilities

• Drive RobCo’s financial model, distilling business inputs across several scenarios into key financial insights to drive decision making

• Partner with department heads across the business to build and maintain detailed expense and headcount budgets

• Lead financial reporting for internal stakeholders and the board, surfacing the insights that matter most at each stage of the business

• Support Financial Operations team and CFO with US-specific financial processes

• Provide monthly variance analysis and recommendations to leadership on cash burn

• Play a key role in US non-dilutive financing analysis and execution

We're looking for someone who has:

• 3-5+ years of experience in Strategic Finance or FP&A within a high-growth technology company, ideally with early-career experience in investment banking or consulting

• Comfort modeling hardware-driven businesses - experience with unit economics, COGS, or manufacturing financials is a differentiator here

• Strong financial modeling skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable narratives for non-finance stakeholders

• Financial systems software (ERP, EPM, GL) experience and interest in AI-powered tool implementation

• Experience supporting executive decision-making directly and building credibility across Product, Engineering, and GTM functions