Senior Manager, Strategic Finance
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Torrance, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience, including 5+ years in investment banking and/or management consulting serving the energy, power, or infrastructure sectors.
- Demonstrated experience supporting transactions end-to-end, such as M&A, joint ventures, project finance, off-take or commercial agreements, or private capital raises.
- Expert financial modeling and valuation skills and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Proven ability to produce executive, board, and investor-ready materials under tight deadlines.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with a portfolio of executive-quality memos, investor materials, and presentations.
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information.
Nice to have
- In-house experience at a startup, high-growth company, or a corporate development, strategic finance, or investor relations function.
- Direct experience in nuclear, power generation, renewables, LNG, or large-scale industrial infrastructure.
- Experience with project finance and off-take structures for first-of-a-kind capital projects, and familiarity with federal energy funding and incentive programs.
- Exposure to a VC-backed company and familiarity with fundraising, investor, and board reporting requirements.
- Established network across institutional investors, strategic corporates, and energy-sector bankers.
- MBA, CFA, or equivalent.
Full description
About Valar Atomics
At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.
The Team
As part of the Business organization, Finance provides the financial planning, analysis, and strategic insights that support informed business decisions and long-term growth. The team partners across the company to allocate resources, manage budgets, and ensure financial discipline as Valar scales.
The Role
The Senior Manager, Strategic Finance will own Valar's corporate development agenda and investor-facing function, building the analysis, relationships, and narrative behind the partnerships, capital, and strategic decisions that accelerate the company's path to commercial nuclear power.
You will map the market, originate and qualify opportunities, build the valuation and returns analysis behind them, and support diligence alongside executives and counsel. Commercial agreements and financings are executed by company leadership; your work is what those decisions are built on. You will also own how Valar communicates with its investors: the update cadence, the materials, the data room, and the narrative that connects technical progress to enterprise value.
This role reports to the VP of Finance and partners directly with the CEO, executive leadership, and teams across Commercial, Legal, Licensing, and Engineering. You will be a primary point of contact for investors, strategic partners, bankers, and government stakeholders.
This is a high-ownership role for someone with a heavy investment banking and/or management consulting background in energy who wants to bring that toolkit inside a company building first-of-a-kind infrastructure. This position is onsite in Torrance, California, with regular travel to the Utah pilot plant, partner sites, and investor meetings.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the corporate development agenda, from market mapping and target identification through qualification, outreach, and prioritization.
- Evaluate strategic partnerships, joint ventures, off-take and power purchase opportunities, strategic investments, and acquisitions, and build the analysis and recommendation behind each.
- Build the valuation, returns, and deal models behind every opportunity, including scenario analysis, capital structure, dilution, and downside cases.