Director of Finance

About the role
This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants finance to be a driver of the business, not a scorekeeper. You’ll own the numbers end to end — the model, the close, cash, compliance, and the systems under all of it — and you’ll use that ownership to sharpen how the whole company makes decisions.

It’s ideal for a high-slope, deeply detail-oriented operator who is equally uncomfortable with a sloppy reconciliation and with a month spent on work that didn’t move the business. You’ll go deep — into the model, the ledger, the compliance controls — but you’re measured on the decisions and outcomes that depth produces.

What you’ll do
Own strategic finance and be a decision partner
Own and continuously sharpen the financial model — revenue, ARR, burn, runway, unit economics, and scenario planning
Refine the operating cadence: budgeting, forecasting, board and investor reporting, and monthly business reviews that change what leadership does next
Turn analysis into recommendations — pricing, hiring pace, spend trade-offs, where a dollar returns the most — and push for the call, don’t just present options
Be the finance partner in the next fundraise: investor-grade model, data room, and diligence support

Own accounting, the close, and controls
Own a clean, timely monthly close and accurate financials (managing our outsourced accounting/bookkeeping partners)
Build the controls, reconciliations, and reporting that make our numbers audit-ready and investor-ready by default
Own cash: AR/AP, collections, billing accuracy, treasury, and the cash-flow visibility the company runs on
Manage tax, audit, and statutory compliance without letting them become fire drills

Own compliance and security operations
Own the compliance (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) program end to end — scope, controls, evidence, auditor relationship, and continuous compliance after certification
Turn security questionnaires and vendor diligence from a deal bottleneck into a fast, repeatable process that helps Sales win
Own the compliance and risk backbone: data handling, vendor risk, insurance, contracts review support, and the policies that scale with us
Partner with Engineering on the controls that reduce risk (not just the ones that check a box)

Build the finance function and its systems
Choose and implement the tooling that lets a small team punch above its weight
Automate and eliminate low-leverage work relentlessly, so the function scales sub-linearly with the company
Set the standards for the finance team we’ll build over time

Who you are
A finance operator with range — you can move from a board-ready strategic model to a bank reconciliation to a SOC 2 control mapping and be rigorous at every altitude
High-slope: you’ve grown faster than your titles, take on scope before it’s handed to you, and get sharper under ambiguity
Obsessively detail-oriented — but outcome-obsessed first. You catch the $40 variance and you know when the $40 variance isn’t worth an hour. You never let precision become an excuse for not moving the business.
Experienced across strategic/FP&A finance, accounting/close, and compliance — likely from a high-growth startup, and comfortable being the most senior and strategic finance hire
Hands-on with (or able to quickly own) compliance; you treat it as a revenue enabler, not a cost center
A clear communicator who translates financial complexity into decisions non-finance leaders can act on
A builder who is energized by no playbook, few tools, and a lot of leverage on the line