# Leah McIntosh

**Manager, Deal Strategy & Value Creation** — United States

> Finance and strategy leader with about 10 years across FP&A, transaction advisory, and value-creation consulting. Has taken carve-outs, divestitures, and first-time planning functions at venture-backed companies from start to finish.

Career Archetype: **All-Terrain Summiteer** (HB-DX) — One of the first All-Terrain Summiteers on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/leah-mcintosh-64832284

## Experience

### Manager, Deal Strategy & Value Creation, PwC / Strategy& (2026-01 – present)
Denver, CO · Advises private equity and corporate clients on transaction strategy, portfolio company performance, and value creation. Builds financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses that inform investment and operating decisions. Manages workstreams and teams of 3 to 5 consultants, and presents to C-suite executives and PE deal teams. Integrated AI tools into diligence and modeling, cutting turnaround time by up to 40%.

### Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy, Project Canary (2023-01 – 2026-01)
Denver, CO · Promoted from Analyst to Manager to Senior Strategy & Finance Manager at a venture-backed emissions-data company. Led a strategic carve-out from problem definition through execution, including the standalone business case and operating model, and ran the end-to-end sale of a non-core subsidiary. Built the company's financial and operating model and scenario-planning framework, owned RevOps and pricing strategy, and set up monthly executive reports, quarterly board materials, and investor updates. Managed and developed a team of analysts.

### Finance Manager, Nisolo (2021-01 – 2023-01)
Remote · Venture-backed direct-to-consumer footwear brand. Designed and implemented the company's first company-wide budgeting and forecasting process, built from scratch in Excel. Delivered monthly reporting packages with forecast, budget-to-actuals, and variance analysis for executives and investors. Built daily sales dashboards and led supply-chain and product-cost analyses.

### Financial Analyst, NBCUniversal Media, LLC (2020-01 – 2021-01)
Denver, Colorado · Owned the $100M operating and capital budget for Global Media Operations and led quarterly forecasting. Built financial models, budgets, and long-range planning tools. Designed management reporting with KPIs and variance drivers, and earned the NBC GEM (Going the Extra Mile) award.

### Investment Banking Analyst, Capstone Headwaters (2019-01 – 2020-01)
Denver, Colorado · Performed buy-side and sell-side diligence for B2B companies.

### Associate to Senior Associate, Finance, WeWork (2018-01 – 2019-01)
Greater New York City Area · Built deal pricing and profitability models.

### Real Estate Financial Analyst, The Related Companies (2017-01 – 2018-01)
New York City Metropolitan Area · Built operating budgets for Hudson Yards.

## Education

### Master of Business Administration - MBA, University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business (2025-05 – 2027-05)

### Public Policy and Law - Environmental Policy, Trinity College-Hartford (2013-01 – 2017-06)
Activities and societies: Varsity Track and Field

### Summer Program, University of Oxford (2012-01 – 2012-01)

### The Taft School (2009-01 – 2013-01)

## Skills

Teamwork, Microsoft Word, Budgeting, Project Management, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Research, Microsoft PowerPoint, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Management, Customer Service, Training, Public Speaking, Advanced Excel, Financial Modeling, SAP, NetSuite, Salesforce, QuickBooks, Tableau, AWS, AI-enabled analysis, Claude, VS Code, Finance Transformation, Operating Model Design, FP&A, Long-Range Planning, Business Cases, M&A, Carve-outs, Divestitures, Program Governance, Executive Reporting, Team Leadership

## Credentials

- **Going the Extra Mile (GEM)** — NBCUniversal (issued 2021-02)
- **National Outdoor Leadership School - Brooks Range, AK Expedition Graduate** (issued 2013-01)
- **Graduate of Culver Summer Military Academy** (issued 2010-01)
- **Member of the National Junior Honor Society**
- **Honored Listee** — Marquis Who's Who

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