Strategic Finance Associate

Welcome to the video first world

From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video.

Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale—until now….

Meet Synthesia

We're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality videos. Whether it's for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2.

In 2023, we were one of 7 European companies to reach unicorn status. In February 2024, G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the world. We’ve raised over $150M in funding from top-tier investors, including Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, Google and top founders and operators including Stripe, Datadog, Miro, Webflow, and Facebook.

About the role…

Strategic Finance is a high-impact function focused on optimizing capital allocation across the organization and creating long-term business value. Synthesia is scaling at a rapid pace as we capture a huge market opportunity. With that, the requirements of the Strategic Finance function in supporting senior stakeholder decision-making continue to grow.

We are seeking a highly analytical and technically skilled Strategic Finance Associate to join our dynamic team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with data, building robust financial models, automating workflows, and developing dashboards that empower operational and strategic decision-making.

What you’ll be doing…

• Lead and support the development, enhancement, and maintenance of financial models integrating live data sources for scenario planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Conduct in-depth data analysis to uncover business trends, identify performance drivers, and generate actionable insights that influence strategic priorities.
• Build, automate, and maintain dashboards in BI tools to monitor key financial and operational metrics.
• Partner cross-functionally with Data Analytics and Revenue Operations teams to ensure high-quality data pipelines, enhance data accuracy, and develop self-serve reporting capabilities.
• Use SQL and scripting tools to extract and manipulate large datasets in support of ad hoc and recurring analyses.
• Collaborate on headcount planning, incentive structure evaluation, and GTM strategy assessments using quantitative frameworks.
• Define and track key KPIs that guide strategic decisions across business units and company-wide.
• Contribute to investor relations materials and fundraising support by synthesizing complex data into compelling, data-driven narratives.
• Deliver structured, insight-rich presentations to senior stakeholders based on rigorous analytical work.

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• 3+ years of professional experience in investment banking, private equity, strategic finance, FP&A, or related fields.
• Strong proficiency in financial modeling, data analysis, and scenario planning.
• Proven experience writing and optimizing SQL queries.
• Demonstrated ability to work with BI tools to design and maintain automated dashboards.
• Ability to distill complex problems into structured frameworks and develop practical, data-backed solutions.
• Strong organizational skills, with a track record of managing multiple projects with high attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience working across departments and seniority levels.

At Synthesia we expect everyone to...

• Put the Customer First
• Own it & Go Direct
• Be Fast & Experimental
• Make the Journey Fun

You can read more about this in our public Notion page.

UK Benefits

• 📍A hybrid, flexible approach to work where you have access to a lovely office space in Oxford Circus with free lunches on a Wednesday and Friday
• 💸 A competitive salary + stock options
• 🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays
• 🏥 Private healthcare through AXA
• ❣️ Pension contribution - Synthesia contributes 3% and employees contribute 5% on qualifying earnings
• 🍼 Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay
• 👉 You can participate in a generous recruitment referral scheme if you help us to hire
• 💻 The equipment you need to be successful in your role