Financial Operations Lead

Role Overview

• Own day-to-day bookkeeping and financial records across global entities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness
• Maintain reconciled accounts including bank, AR, AP, payroll, and contractors, with proper accruals and deferrals
• Ensure accounting records are clean, reliable, and transparent to leadership
• Select, coordinate, and manage external accounting and payroll partners across multiple geographies, ensuring high-quality output, clear ownership, and scalable processes as our international footprint grows
• Research international policy and regulations and recommend path forward as we expand the business
• Own the end-to-end client invoicing process, including timely collections and dispute resolution
• Manage payroll, contractor, and vendor payment workflows from start to finish
• Ensure time tracking systems are fully leveraged to support accurate, low-friction invoicing
• Identify and implement automation and process improvements to reduce manual effort and free up capacity for higher-value work
• Own the month-end close process with a goal of delivering profitability and performance reporting within 48 hours of period close
• Build and maintain operational financial reporting, primarily in Excel and connected tools, that provides clear visibility into business performance
• Ensure consistency and accuracy across entities, including international structures
• Build and maintain a reliable, continuously updated cash flow forecast that enables proactive liquidity management
• Monitor cash position and support funding trade-off decisions with data and analysis
• Support the maintenance of annual financial plans and budgets in partnership with leadership, translating strategic goals into actionable financial targets
• Run ad hoc and recurring financial analysis to support leadership decisions around profitability, cost drivers, resourcing, and growth investments
• Proactively identify and implement automation opportunities using AI and modern tools to eliminate repetitive work, reduce error risk, and increase the speed and quality of financial operations

Requirements

• 5+ years running finance, accounting, and bookkeeping operations, ideally in a startup or client-services environment
• Proven track record owning or improving operational finance processes including invoicing, AR, payables, and month-end close
• Experience managing external vendors such as accountants, payroll providers, and tax advisors
• Familiarity with international entity structures, transactions, and cross-border accounting strongly preferred
• Consulting or professional services background valued for understanding project-based revenue and resource models
• Strong fundamentals in accounting and double-entry bookkeeping principles
• Advanced Excel skills with ability to build and maintain financial models and operational reports
• Eager to explore, test, and adopt AI-driven tools and workflows, with a track record (or clear mindset) of using technology to materially improve finance processes
• Experience with modern accounting systems and automation tools for finance operations
• Extremely detail-oriented and diligent, taking pride in getting it right the first time
• Self-starter who doesn't accept a bad status quo and is willing to grind through messy systems while systematically fixing them

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Remote-first work environment
• High ownership and visible impact on the business
• Autonomy and trust backed by an execution-focused leadership team