Financial Associate (Corporate) jobs in Grand Forks, ND

Cognite is a global leader in industrial software with our Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, at the core. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms. 

The industrial data problem is at the heart of transforming asset-intensive industries to be safer, more sustainable and more profitable. Cognite’s Cognite Data Fusion makes the operational data available at scale and adds value to the data through data processing. This enables asset-intensive industries to make data-driven decisions. Our platform is built on many different technologies, each good at solving various challenges.

About the department:

The Corporate Development team at Cognite work with teams across the company to develop strategy and execute on key strategic initiatives. The team of four has grown to become an integral part of advising on company direction.  We spend a lot of time at the intersection of strategy and finance and primarily focus on three areas: 1) Corporate finance including M&A, fundraising and equity program management; 2) Strategic partnerships; 3) business development. We are now looking to strengthen our team with a new associate. If you have passion for corporate strategy, development, finance and technology, Cognite is a great place to accelerate your career!

• Help drive processes related to strategic business development and running fundraisings, acquisitions, partnership processes or other high stakes relationships (OEM, Aker, etc)
• Develop Cognite’s M&A agenda and develop it into a key contributor to Cognite’s growth
• Together with CEO and Senior Leadership Team, help formulate Cognite’s strategy and run resulting strategic initiatives jointly with the business
• Help run efficient processes towards Cognite’s Board of Directors and Owners to ensure they are up-to-date on the progress of the company and make efficient decisions
• Collaborate with finance on corporate finance tasks including KPIs and reporting
• Manage Cognites share and option programme
• Social office support

• Curious and passion to learn and build
• Most candidates will have some form of eduction like a masters degree in finance, business or alike
• 1-2 years experience in consulting, corporate finance, investment banking, analytics, venture, corporate development, strategy
• Solid interest in how technology solve key business problems in the industrial world
• Strong operational grit and get stuff done!

• Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day. We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation! And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader! 🥇

• Competitive salary and benefits, including pension, insurance, parental benefits, and much more.
• Join a team of 70 different nationalities 🌐
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
• Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal amount of bureaucracy
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
• Get access to extended private health services with Aker Care.
• Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by our chefs who specialize in options for both vegetarians and non-vegetarian, salads and hot soups every day
• Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
• We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.

If you have any questions regarding the role, please do not hesitate to contact our Talent Acqusition Partner, Oda Caroline Danielsen at oda.danielsen@cognite.com or Hiring Manager Håkon Bjerke at hakon.bjerke@cognite.com.

We do encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company that was established with one clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with contextualized, trustworthy, and accessible data to help drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion™, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, operationalize, and scale industrial AI solutions and applications to deliver both profitability and sustainability. Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on Twitter @CogniteData or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitedata

Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion. 

We ask for gender as part of our application because we want to ensure equal assessment in the recruitment process. Your answer will help us reach this commitment! However, the question about gender is optional and your choice not to answer will not affect the assessment of your application in any way.