Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
This is an exciting and entrepreneurial opportunity to join a fast-paced technology company with a very significant growth trajectory. Beacon Software is making its first hire on the Strategic Finance team. This is a role where investing turns into building. The individual will report to Beacon’s VP, Strategic Finance and work closely with Beacon’s CEO, CTO, M&A Directors, industry pod leaders, and the General Managers of Beacon’s portfolio companies.
What they're looking for
- 3-8 years of post-undergrad experience in strategy consulting, private equity, or other finance roles (e.g., investment banking, growth equity, corporate development, or strategic finance)
- Strong academic record from a competitive institution with a degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative field
- Investor mindset, analytical toolkit, and operator instinct: equally comfortable building a model and being in the room with a product leader or GM helping them make the call
- Expertise in building financial models, value creation plans, and analytical frameworks for capital allocation decisions
- Strong ability to synthesize complex systems and communicate clearly to senior stakeholders
- Familiarity with vertical market software, buy-and-build models, and the operating dynamics of small-to-mid-sized software businesses is a plus
More about this role
Beacon is building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy: the businesses, organizations, and services that make real life work, and that mainstream tech has largely left behind. We acquire, operate, and grow vertical market software companies. They are niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked and too profitable to ignore.
Our model is simple: we seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs. We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently, accelerating that growth with an AI-native platform built specifically for vertical market software. No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable.
We are not a financial firm. We are technology entrepreneurs and operators who believe the most important businesses in the world are already running quietly in industries most people never think about. Our job is to find them, support the people who built them, and make them better.
Beacon is backed by a diverse base of investors, with $550M+ raised to date, including General Catalyst,...
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