Financial Planning and Analyst Lead

Summary

Join the Institute of Free Technology, a mission-driven tech startup studio supporting the development of the decentralized web, as their FP&A Manager. You will work closely with the CFO to build and manage a forward-looking FP&A function tailored to their unique project portfolio. Responsibilities include developing financial models, providing analytical support to project teams, and contributing to budgeting and capital allocation processes. The ideal candidate possesses strong financial modeling skills, experience in early-stage companies, and the ability to communicate complex financial information effectively. Experience with blockchain technology is preferred. Compensation is competitive and can be paid in fiat or crypto.

Requirements

• Develop trusted working relationships with highly technical stakeholders
• Proven experience creating robust, scalable financial models that reflect a deep understanding of the underlying project, and that capture (and where possible, quantify) the inherent uncertainty of early-stage projects in our industry
• Present and communicate data (including complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders) such that they influence behaviour and help drive important decisions
• A collaborative mindset, both with our project portfolio and other IFT stakeholders
• Work effectively both remotely and asynchronously
• Experience in, and interest in, blockchain technology

Responsibilities

• Work with the CFO to develop and implement a forward-looking FP&A function, tailored to our project portfolio and the startup studio nature of our business
• Establish and manage a regular reporting, forecasting and scenario planning cadence that aligns with, and supports, the fast-paced and innovative nature of our business
• Work with the CFO and other senior leaders in the organisation to develop and iterate our budgeting and capital allocation process
• Build and maintain sophisticated, scalable financial models (with a focus on interoperability between existing and future models, both within Finance and within other teams) to support scenario planning, predictive modelling, and valuation analysis
• Act as a trusted partner to project teams, helping them understand financial (and where relevant, non-financial) variances, identify improvement levers, and make data-driven decisions
• Provide analytical support to both the projects and the leadership team for evaluating the profitability and strategic value of current and potential future projects within the portfolio

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience either setting up or substantially developing an FP&A function in an early-stage company
• A professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, etc)
• Experience managing and developing a small team
• Degree (or a post-graduate qualification) in a quantitative discipline (STEM, economics, finance, etc)
• Strong Python development skills and knowledge/experience of software development workflows and tooling (e.g. Markdown, Git)
• Demonstrable experience of: Developing or modelling the tokenomics (or other blockchain-specific financial structures) of a web3 project
• Demonstrable experience of: Valuation projects of seed-stage or other early-stage companies
• Demonstrable experience of: Working for an open-source organisation

Benefits

Compensation is competitive and can be paid in fiat or crypto