Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sniffspot is the world’s largest marketplace for private dog parks, experiencing significant growth and financial complexity. The Head of Finance will own finance and accounting end-to-end, manage outsourced firms, and partner with the CEO on strategic financial decisions.
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 our 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 product, engineering, marketing, data and operations to provide a financial lens on decision-making
- WIth the support of our outsourced accounting firm, prepare monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting - analyzing operating and financial results, distilling key insights, and assessing & acting upon current and future business opportunities & risks
- Manage an efficient month-end close process, including accurate revenue recognition and balance sheet reconciliations
- Own finance operations end-to-end, managing accounting, accounts payable, tax, payroll and compliance vendors
- Lead and execute on tax strategy, including income tax, 1099-ks for hosts, and sales tax
- Develop clear points of view on financing, capital structure and shareholder outcomes
- Act as a close thought partner to the CEO on financial health, growth tradeoffs and risk
Skills
- 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 our 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 financing, debt vs equity decision-making, vendor or partner negotiations and M&A
- We are open to full-time or fractional
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