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Head of Finance
Confidential Posting for an External Company
Head of Finance | Financial Services & Real Estate | United States
Head of Finance | Financial Services & Real Estate | United States
Remote
About this Role
Role
In this role, you will be responsible for:
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Deepening and expanding our relationships across all forms of capital and investors to help the platform launch 5-8 businesses per year and support the evolution of a fast-growing ecosystem
- Providing financial, accounting, and operational leadership, insight, and management within the firm; managing and updating budgets and cash flow projects for the management company; consolidating portfolio company financials into one central operation
- Implementing best practices for financial management and controls for all launches to prepare companies for Series A and beyond
- Establishing the financial organization and defining growth plans for different businesses, including evaluating cash flow, building capacity models
- Providing guidance to launch teams on accounting practices, FP&A, reporting, cash management, budgeting, planning, internal controls and processes, systems, tax and credit-related matters offering operational support and best practices implementation assistance
- Leading and guiding launch teams with strategic planning, operational efficiency improvements and financial controls; providing strategic finance support around business model, unit economics, and financial models
- Being a trusted member of the launch team; creating tangible, measurable value in launches
- Leading financial and accounting due diligence of potential deals; providing strategic and insightful analysis of the primary risks and opportunities to support evaluation of new investment opportunities
- Representing our and its mission in the market
- Identifying and staying abreast of best practices for the finance function at venture capital firms to ensure our company adopts best-in-class practices
Professional Qualifications
- Experience as finance leader in a high growth start-up, which has scaled to Series A and beyond
- Early stage (seed, Series A, Series B) startup experience is a must; hands on leader with the ability to grow and develop a team
- Demonstrated experience in synthesizing financial data and presenting conclusions and recommendations to stakeholders to drive outcomes and decisions
- Effective leader with demonstrated ability to manage resources and priorities cross-functionally
- Experience evaluating and integrating M&A transactions; foundation in investment banking and/or VC/PE environment a plus
- A Bachelor's degree is required, preferably in finance or accounting; an MBA and/or CPA (or equivalent) is preferred but not necessary.
Personal Characteristics
- Strategic, innovative thinker with proven execution, leadership and communication skills
- Highly intellectual with an ability to think deeply and qualitatively about business problems, breaking down issues, and presenting solutions
- Comfort level with executing transactions and working in a fast-paced deal environment in a very hands on “roll up the sleeves” capacity
- Strong interpersonal, management, and organizational skills
- Entrepreneurial with a high level of energy and an unrelenting drive to succeed and win
- Energized by the company vision and mission to ideate, create, and launch innovative companies
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