Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bright Machines is hiring a Strategic Finance Intern to turn financial and market data into decisions that support the company’s growth. The role contributes to investment analysis, forecasting, performance reporting, investor relations, and AI-enabled improvements to finance workflows.
Responsibilities
- Investment & ROI analysis. Build the business cases behind major spend decisions — capex, new initiatives, and resourcing bets — quantifying the returns and trade-offs so leadership can decide with confidence
- Competitive & market analysis. Size the market, track competitors and comparable companies, and translate the findings into sharper pricing and a more compelling story for investors and leadership
- AI-driven finance innovation. Use AI to make our finance, strategic finance, and investor relations processes faster and better — building apps, skills, and workflows that the whole team can use
- Cash forecasting. Partner with key stakeholders and department heads across the business — including the head of operations and senior leadership — to manage capex inflows and outflows and understand the project timelines that drive our cash position
- Management reporting & insights. Help leadership decide which KPIs matter most to track, then dig into those results — along with revenue, margins, and spend — and present the findings and recommendations directly
- Investor relations. Help refine and maintain our investor financial model and shape the investor story — proving out our growth, margin trajectory, and unit economics with the numbers. Contribute to investor-facing materials and support ongoing investor communications
- Strategic projects. Identify where the business needs help and propose the projects to go after it, working with senior leadership and partnering cross-functionally across the company to drive real improvements
Skills
- Currently pursuing an MBA
- A background in FP&A, investment banking, or consulting
- Strong financial modeling instincts
Benefits
- Hands-on experience at a company at a pivotal growth stage
- Direct work with senior leadership and partnership with stakeholders across the company
- Practical experience applying AI to real finance and investor relations work
- Experience working inside a next-generation manufacturing company shaping AI infrastructure
- Remote work
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