Remote Finance Manager

Summary

Join Client Accelerators as a Finance Manager to spearhead the major functions of the Finance and Accounting department. This leadership role will provide a supporting role with M&A and Capital Raising, and drive financial strategy with the leadership team.

Requirements

• 5-6 years minimum previous accounting and finance experience
• Relevant industry experience working for a small to medium sized growth-oriented company in a service based business
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required
• MBA and/or CPA strongly preferred OR substantial accomplishments (IE: IPO, raised significant capital, acquired companies)
• Previous experience in pro forma modeling for company acquisitions
• Previous years of direct operational experience with exposure to broad areas of a company, including management of people and operational projects
• High level of proficiency in financial & predictive modeling while providing meticulous attention to detail
• Previous experience in monthly and yearly closings and generating monthly financial statements
• Experience running projects from inception to oversight and execution resulting in a positive outcome
• Familiarity and experience with tax preparation and strategy
• Strong quantitative analysis skills (Expert level w/ MS Excel) with high abstract reasoning ability
• Strategic thinker who understands markets and business models and has past experience of actionable business outcomes that resulted in successful wins for a company
• Strong process-orientation and history of leading and forming efficient, effective and optimal-sized teams relative to output needs

Responsibilities

• Strategic Finance
• Annual strategic planning and analysis : Collaboratively develop business strategy with leadership team; strategically critique proposed business plans. Run budget analysis of proposed strategic initiatives and hone according to financial viability
• Company performance dashboards : Identify KPIs cumulatively indicative of company-level business performance/projected performance and useful to entire corporate staff; build, maintain and regularly update a dashboard of performance data based around those KPIs
• M&A : provide a supporting role relative to due diligence, pro forma financial statements and post-acquisition integration
• Capital raising : Work with CEO to identify, network and perform company presentations to appropriate debt or equity financing partners if needed
• Monthly financial forecasting and budgeting : Gather all desired expenses and revenue initiatives from budget stakeholders across company; compile monthly 24-month forward looking P&L/Balance Sheet/Cash Flow financial forecast based on all desired expenses and revenue initiatives using company financial analysis model. Hone monthly financial forecast into strategically prioritized and approved expense and revenue initiatives for the next one-month business cycle
• Finance project management : Manage strategic finance projects to agreed upon specs, with completion on deadline, and with quantifiable results
• Bookkeeping : Manage and oversee the bookkeeper who will: Scan and assign bills to account owners through online system; manage sales tax remittance; post bank and credit card activities to ledger; process receipts and expense approvals; complete periodic reconciliations; distribute A/P reports to P&L account owners; follow up with payable vendors as needed
• Company financials development and ongoing production : Develop, refine, and maintain basic monthly and year-to-date company P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement reporting
• Month-end/Year-end close : Work with the bookkeeper will close the company books by carrying out documented month-end account reconciliations as well as all month-end journal entries for: accruals, pre-paids, depreciation, amortization, reversals and various splits
• Ongoing expense controls : Develop, implement and maintain strict ongoing pre- and post-disbursement expense controls to ensure that all disbursements are pre-approved and all amounts are accurate
• Entity and partner tax preparation and strategy : Work with external tax preparer to complete LLCr tax filings in fashion consistent with pre-identified optimal tax strategy
• Review/Audit oversight : Provide in-house support and oversight for external accounting firms or other parties, if needed. May require some high-end analysis work
• Maintain company documents : Work with general counsel to ensure that important company/organizational documents are organized in paper and electronic format at all times in case needed for legal, due diligence or external accounting work
• Business insurance needs identification/insurance policy negotiation : Develop running analysis of business risk areas in which insurance is needed; identify potential insurers per area; select insurers and negotiate terms
• Quantitative staffing models : Develop, maintain, and run monthly quantitative staffing models to identify the number, quantity and timing of new hires needed in
• Vendor relations : Spearhead response to company vendor inquiries (financial, legal or general) and review all current company vendor contracts for legal and financial acceptability and negotiate/renegotiate using best negotiating practices to achieve winning outcomes for the company

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Great career growth opportunity - You’ll be working with ‘A’ players in Operations, Sales, Creative, and Media Buying
• Opportunity to attend Global company events