Vice President of Finance
GrowthDay- Posted : 3 years ago
The Opportunity
Let's build the product everyone needs to achieve greater personal growth. We are hiring a VP of Finance to support the GrowthDay business and product. This high-performing leader will also be focused on hacking growth in order to scale the app.
What You Will Do In This Role
Develop the financial reporting, planning, analysis, forecasting models, risk assessments, headcount planning, and growth levers needed to scale a customer-facing, cross-platform ed-tech app into an international category-defining product.
Work with the CEO to drive financial initiatives, metrics, budgeting, and KPI know-how through the company.
Own the annual and long-term financial planning processes, budgets and regulation compliance.
Create the reports and insights needed to optimize revenue, streamline expenses, and show our growth to the market and investors.
Hire and build the accounting and legal teams.
Work with intention across the leadership teams to create a remarkably energized culture with an obsessive enthusiasm and care for our customers.
Create the financial rigor needed to scale to unicorn.
You Are What We Are Looking For If……
You have an MBA, a BSc/BA in Accounting/Finance, and 5 years minimum in a financial leadership level at VP or CFO.
You've worked for a software or edtech company before, or you can prove you deeply understand subscription models, MRR, ARR, fundraising and valuations of a subscription-based business.
You want to prove that you can step into an eight-figure-per-year company and take it to unicorn.
You've created an equity program before from the ground up.
BONUS if you've also been in leadership positions in Legal or Operations; and/or you've worked in SAAS or edtech
You want to lead the culture of a company and educate everyone on how planning and analysis can change the game.
You thrive in building and leading teams. You have no questions about your ability to lead with humility, confidence, precision, and courage.
You're ridiculously passionate about all things personal and professional development.
You ask questions, speak with candor, challenge conventional wisdom, and always remain open to better ideas.
There is no pattern in your life of people calling you a jerk.
You know how to communicate to the CEO, the customer, the media, new team, and even skeptical teenagers about why what we're building changes lives.
You know what we mean when we say you make the team the hero.
You love personal growth as much as you love numbers
Skills
- accounting
- budgeting
