Finance Manager

Summary

Join Propeller Industries as a Finance Manager and provide financial planning and analysis services to a portfolio of early-stage startups. Collaborate with senior finance leaders to analyze businesses, build financial models, improve forecasting, refine reporting, and optimize decision-making. You will work with high-growth clients, ranging from Seed to Series C stage, and be accountable for meeting deadlines and developing financial forecasts, budgets, and analyses. This remote role requires strong financial modeling, presentation, and communication skills, along with the ability to manage multiple client workstreams. The position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 to 6 years in finance-focused roles such as
• 2+ years in investment banking and/or consulting
• 2+ years focused on FP&A and/or strategic finance in-house at a technology or high-growth company
• Great team player and work ethic
• Superior financial modeling and presentation skills
• Deep understanding of financial principals and expanding knowledge of accounting principals
• Ability to build complex 3 statement financial forecasts and provide in depth variance analysis and insights to inform business decisions
• Comfort with data and ambiguity, and an ability to delve into details and adapt priorities on the fly
• Good communication skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations to Propeller team as well as our clients
• Highly organized with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple client workstreams and respond to ad-hoc requests to support business decisions in timely and efficient manner
• Ability and desire to teach others within the organization to help grow the broader internal FP&A skill set

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detailed financial models for a variety of business models (e-commence, tech, professional services &/or consumer product goods)
• Develop business performance reporting and custom financial & operating KPI dashboards; Report on KPIs on a monthly basis
• Work hand-in-hand with accounting team to review and cross-check monthly client financial performance
• Perform monthly variance analysis focused on actuals vs. budgets vs. constantly evolving forecasts
• Work with clients to find analytical and modeling projects outside of the normal budgeting and review process to add additional value
• Provide input and advice to clients based upon scalable best practices to improve their results, improve internal processes, reduce or optimize costs and increase sales
• Identify strategic insights and big picture conclusions through analyzing the data
• Connecting analytical findings to a broader business / industry understanding, drawing on past experience and pattern recognition
• Assist clients in the fundraising process including building investor-facing models, leading financial diligence process, working directly with VCs, etc
• Help train Propeller’s Financial Analyst team

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off and Holiday pay
• Comprehensive health benefits, plus dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life insurance
• HSA contribution
• Paid Family Leave
• 401k match
• Remote Work