Strategic Finance Analyst
About the job
- The candidate should be comfortable owning and building models end-to-end, from assumptions to insights.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into action.
- Solid command of Excel or Google Sheets; SQL or business intelligence tools are a plus.
- Clear communicator who can collaborate across technical, operational, and leadership teams.
- A self-starter with curiosity, structure, and a builder's mindset; you like creating systems that actually work.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Build and maintain detailed financial models for budgets, forecasts, and scenario planning.
- Analyze business performance and key metrics across revenue, expenses, and margins.
- Partner with product, growth, and operations teams to gather inputs and validate assumptions.
- Prepare materials and analyses for investor updates, board meetings, and fundraising rounds.
- Translate complex financial data into clear, compelling narratives for external stakeholders.
- Manage cash forecasting and runway analysis to ensure alignment with company growth goals.
- Monitor spend against budget and identify opportunities for efficiency.
- Conduct research on market trends, competitors, and comparable metrics to inform strategic decisions.
- Build models to assess new market opportunities or business lines.
- Work closely with internal teams to extract, clean, and interpret financial and operational data.
- Support finance leadership in building scalable processes for reporting and planning.
- Past experience at a top investment bank or management consulting or private equity firm is preferred
About the company
Kalshi runs a US federally regulated exchange that lets traders speculate on whether future events will occur using event contracts. These contracts are approved by the CFTC and enable positions on outcomes like statistics or legislative results. Traders place bets on events via Kalshi’s trading platform, and the company earns revenue from transaction fees on each trade. Kalshi differentiates itself by being the first federally regulated market for event contracts, focusing on a new asset class within the futures ecosystem, and attracting both individual investors and institutional traders. Its goal is to give participants a regulated venue to hedge or speculate on economically significant events, expanding the scope of traditional futures markets.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series F
Total Funding
$2.5B
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2019
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 2026 revenue annualized above $4 billion signals explosive sports demand.
- Public and Coinbase partnerships broaden retail automation and real-time execution.
- Biotech pilot markets launched July 2026 create new non-sports verticals.
What critics are saying
- New York sued July 31, 2026 seeking to block all event contracts nationwide.
- CFTC advisory on September 22, 2026 highlighted insider-trading and fraud enforcement across Kalshi.
- A Supreme Court loss on sports betting erases Kalshi's core fee base by 2027.
What makes Kalshi unique
- Kalshi remains the only CFTC-regulated U.S. exchange for event contracts, despite 2026 litigation.
- Its September 2026 tribal app partnership expands distribution through Tunica-Biloxi ownership.
- DoubleZero and ProCap integrations turn Kalshi data into institutional trading infrastructure.
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6 month growth
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9%2 year growth
23%Kalshi, the prediction market, has grown fast by avoiding formal hierarchy, co-founder and chief operating officer Luana Lopes Lara said. "We don't have 'heads of' or VPs," she told Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit in Santa Barbara, California. Everyone reports to her or is one step away. Lara said this lets the company decide and adjust quickly, and avoid the meetings and red tape that slow growing startups. One research firm estimated in June that Kalshi was on track for $4 billion in annualised revenue, up from $775 million in December. Sports betting drove much of the rise. Dozens of state governments claim Kalshi runs an illegal sports gambling operation. Appeals courts have issued conflicting rulings, and the Supreme Court is expected to rule next year. Lara said she is optimistic Kalshi will prevail.
Kalshi has hired former FBI agent Sean Fern to lead its first anti-money laundering team as prediction markets face increasing regulatory scrutiny. Fern, who previously served as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn and worked on the FBI's international corruption squad, will monitor suspicious activity on the platform. According to TickerTracker, Kalshi has processed $260 billion in bets this year, triple the amount traded in all of 2025. The platform faces mounting pressure over market manipulation and insider trading. Federal regulators recently settled with former Rep. George Santos over market manipulation, whilst prosecutors indicted individuals for allegedly using non-public information on rival platform Polymarket. PitchBook estimates Kalshi's value at around $40 billion. The company has 250 employees and plans to double headcount within six months.
The executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling resigned in late September after accepting a $2 million donation from prediction market platform Kalshi without board approval. Heather Maurer, who began the role in January, required directors to sign nondisclosure agreements before revealing the donation at an April conference. When questioned, she acknowledged Kalshi had not agreed to fund safety measures or promote addiction helplines, sparking internal revolt. The controversy prompted several state organisations to sever ties with NCPG, including Washington's Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling and Ohio Casino Control Commission in September. The backlash centred on NCPG creating a separate "financial services and trading" donor category for Kalshi, exempting the platform from public safeguards required of traditional sportsbooks like DraftKings and FanDuel. Kalshi has grown to a valuation above $20 billion.
Four tribes from California and Oklahoma have launched prediction apps in partnership with Kalshi, marking a significant split in Native American opposition to prediction markets. Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town launched PokkeTrades, whilst three California tribes — Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation, Greenville Rancheria, and Alturas Indian Rancheria — introduced their own platforms. The move follows the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana launching SaltTrade Derivatives last month. Each tribe owns and controls its app whilst Kalshi handles trading operations behind the scenes. The partnerships highlight a divide within Indian Country. Casino gaming generated over $46 billion in revenue in 2025 for tribes, and several have filed lawsuits against Kalshi alleging violations of tribal gaming rights. However, some tribes view prediction markets as a new revenue source, particularly those whose geography limits traditional gaming development.
Public is launching AI trading agents that execute automated strategies on prediction markets through a partnership with Kalshi. The New York-based investing app allows users to instruct AI agents to trade on real-world events or use prediction market data to inform broader portfolio decisions. Users set a strategy and the AI converts it into fixed rules, ranging from sending alerts when odds change to automatically buying or selling investments. The agents can monitor markets continuously and execute strategies investors might not physically manage themselves. Public must approve all rules before agents can act. The platform aims to prevent unintended trades by converting requests into visual plans requiring user review before activation as fixed code. The product targets active, self-directed investors wanting to track events affecting portfolios, such as Federal Reserve rate decisions or regulatory approvals. Public, founded in 2019 and backed by Accel and Tiger Global, manages billions in assets across millions of users.