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VP Finance

You will own finance and accounting end-to-end: FP&A, cash management, budgeting, month end close, all financial analysis, and finance operations. You will manage outsourced accounting and tax firms, and be fully accountable for financial accuracy, judgment and decision-making across the company.

This is a hands-on operator role, not a pure management role. We are looking for someone who personally owns the financial model and is the subject matter expert on financial health and planning. You will partner directly with the CEO on impactful questions: how fast we can grow, where to invest, how close to the edge we can operate safely and other strategic questions.

This role has real leverage. You will shape how capital is allocated in a profitable, scaling business and directly influence the company's growth rate, margins and long-term outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a deep fundamental understanding of the business to inform financial assumptions and decisions, including target customers, value proposition and growth drivers
• Build and maintain driver-based financial models across revenue, costs, margin and cash
• Own company cash management and forecasting; creatively and continually finding ways for us to, within risk tolerances, generate and deploy cash more effectively to grow faster
• Lead financial planning process with zero-based budgeting and ROI-based capital allocation, focused on aggressively increasing operating cash flow and deploying cash to highest growth activities
• Closely partner with data to enable clean, tight financial data; partner with product, engineering, marketing and operations to provide a financial lens on decision-making
• With the support of an outsourced accounting firm, prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reporting, including accurate revenue recognition and balance sheet reconciliations and annual independent audits
• Analyze operating and financial results, distilling key insights, and assessing & acting upon current and future business opportunities & risks
• Own spend management, including accounts payable and vendor negotiations with focus on maximizing cash ROI
• Own and minimize taxes, including income tax, sales tax and excise tax
• Develop clear points of view on financing, capital structure, and shareholder outcomes, including direct ownership of cap table and dilution modeling
• Act as a key external-facing company representative for investor relations, fundraising, M&A or other capital projects

What We're Looking For

• Missionary, not mercenary
• Senior finance leader (VP Finance / Head of Finance) who has owned finance end-to-end
• Exceptional financial forecasting and planning abilities
• Aggressive, creative, first-principles thinker
• Holds accuracy and honesty as most sacred first principles
• Experience in consumer subscription and marketplace businesses
• Experience with early stage, fast-growing businesses that are funded through operating cash flow, ideally with deferred revenue and significant variable costs
• Prefer operating hands on without a significant team
• Thrives in a global, async, remote team with US East coast working hours
• Experience with debt and equity financing, vendor or partner negotiations and M&A

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