Description
As Spade's first finance hire, you will build the financial foundation for our next stage of growth. You'll take full ownership of our financial planning, reporting, and operations,from monthly close and cash management to strategic forecasting and investor reporting. You'll collaborate closely with the CEO and COO to shape strategy, support key decisions with robust analysis, and drive business growth.
Financial Planning & Analysis: Develop budgets and forecasts, monitor budget vs. actuals, and build dashboards for key metrics (e.g. revenue growth, burn rate, GTM metrics, etc.).
Accounting & Bookkeeping: Own the monthly close process, ensure our financial records are accurate and GAAP-compliant, and manage invoices, payables, and receivables.
Cash Management: Track cash runway and working capital. Advise leadership on fundraising needs and timing based on cash flow projections.
Strategic Partnership: Work closely with the CEO and COO on financial strategy and scenario planning. Provide analysis to support major decisions (pricing, hiring, market expansion) and challenge assumptions with data.
Operational Build-out: Implement finance tools/software as needed (e.g. QuickBooks, expense management, financial modeling in Google Sheets). Establish internal controls and financial policies to enable scalable growth.
Investor & Board Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports and forecasts for our board and investors. Support future fundraising by owning data room prep, due diligence requests, etc.
We're looking for someone with 5+ years of experience in a finance role, 3+ years of experience in-house at a B2B SaaS startup, and a generalist finance skillset. You should have a strategic business mindset and understanding of key business drivers, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to challenge and influence business outcomes.