Head of Finance

Company Overview
Volt is transforming the massive and rapidly growing communications platform industry and is on a mission to make leveraging communication infrastructure easy for software companies and enable businesses to build more meaningful connections with their customers through the power of text message communication. Our goal is to improve the developer experience and lower the total cost of ownership by building a fully managed messaging infrastructure stack so that software teams can focus on building applications that delight users.

Our culture is defined by excellence and innovation, and our people are committed to exceeding expectations at every level, pushing themselves and their teams to be the best at what they do, and being a part of a culture defined by excellence and innovation. Come join the team everyone is raving about!

About the Role
As Head of Finance, you will play a critical role in laying the foundation for our company’s financial health and increasing profitability in the long run. You will be challenged to help build our cash management policies and prepare Volt for continued rapid growth. You will support every department in maintaining budgets, forecasts, accounts payable, and accounts receivable, as well as strategic modeling of pricing models as we launch new features. You will report directly to the CEO and be expected to regularly communicate with board members and investors. 

Position Responsibilities

• Responsible for forecasting monthly, quarterly, and annual results, overseeing budgets, and evaluating and deciding investments.
• Focus on enabling Volt to scale by thinking 6-12 months ahead, anticipating the roadblocks that come with growth, and setting the team up for success to navigate them with ease.
• Provide tools for organization-wide transparency into financial tracking and controls, including, but not limited to, 13-week cash flow models.
• Responsible for cash management and developing scalable systems and policies to ensure the team has the resources it needs while remaining financially responsible. 
• Conduct risk management and proactively mitigate the risks identified.
• Conduct profit and cost analyses and recommend cost-reducing solutions.
• Work closely with sales to optimize our pricing models and create policies to maintain margin targets for contract negotiations.
• Manage our external accounting team and quarterly financial reporting to the investors and board members.
• Ensure all accounting activities and internal audits comply with financial regulations.

Requirements

Ideal Candidate Criteria

• You have an excellent software startup financial management background and can manage complex organizations and executive relationships with a partnership-oriented mindset.
• You have a track record of successfully executing against significant revenue targets involving large and complex customers.
• You can lead and communicate cross-functionally with sales, operations, product, and other departments.
• You thrive in an environment without a set playbook and are excited to build a finance department from scratch.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a relevant field, a Master’s degree/CFA/CPA is a plus.
• Proven work experience as a Head of Finance, Director of Finance, or similar role in a SaaS/ start-up.
• Ability to set strategy and effectively execute, acting with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Experience raising venture capital through Series B, leading the exit process, and heading up investor relations.
• Acted as the point person for the preparation and presentation of financials of board meetings.
• In-depth understanding of cash flow management, bank reconciliation, and bookkeeping.
• Extensive experience in establishing and managing financial processes, including data analysis, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, and risk management for both quarterly and annual planning.
• Previous experience analyzing and communicating key financial insights and high-level recommendations to management to facilitate effective company scaling.
• Proficiency in accounting software with the ability to find and implement new software when needed.
• Strong collaboration and leadership abilities and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Benefits

• Salary range of $120-160K + 15% Bonus

• Volt provides employees with health, dental, vision, and life insurance at no extra cost.
• Equity in the form of stock options offered to all employees.