Director, Finance

Summary

Join Canvs AI as a Director, Finance and lead a portfolio of functions including strategic planning, revenue & KPI analytics tracking, financial planning & reporting, legal, and vendor management. Reporting to the CEO, you will partner with various teams to drive organizational performance. This hands-on role demands a high level of ownership and offers broad responsibility for critical business operations in a growing startup. You will collaboratively develop company strategies and plans, implement robust metrics and reporting, identify and solve business issues, and manage financial operations. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in a high-growth startup environment and strong analytical and communication skills.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in an operational or financial role at a high-growth startup, or a relevant background in operations finance, business insights, executive staff office, management consulting, or other related field
• Experience partnering closely with legal, policy, and technical teams, working on complex products or partnerships, or working in a legal or regulatory operating environment
• Strong understanding of accounting, finance, and business analytics principles
• Highly analytical, with advanced Excel skills
• Able to develop strategy, build a case, and tell a persuasive story to drive decision making and buy-in across an organization
• Relentless focus on execution that goes beyond analysis and strategy
• Self-starter who is able to own complex projects with minimal or maximal input
• Willingness to really roll up your sleeves in a startup environment - no job is too small
• Intense curiosity and drive to make things better
• Excellent interpersonal skills, readily develops trust and credibility across all levels, and is able to motivate others

Responsibilities

• Collaboratively develop company strategy, annual, and quarterly plans and goals
• Develop, report on, and drive alignment and accountability throughout the company around KPIs
• Implement, monitor, and analyze a robust set of growth and operational metrics and reporting mechanisms to maintain metrics, revenue, and network integrity
• Identify issues, root causes, and solutions across internal and external elements of our business
• Manage financial operations, including preparation of the financial forecasts, budgets, and operational statements; lead liaison to external accounting; develop and document business processes to ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting
• Oversee various vendor management, billing, and contracts
• Oversight of various legal affairs

Benefits

• Compensation in line with experience and title
• Tremendous opportunity for career and growth
• Strong culture and commitment to values
• Flexibility via a fully distributed company (Work From Anywhere!)
• Generous health benefits
• Unlimited paid vacation
• Summer Fridays
• Monthly (at a minimum) virtual team-building events