Head of Finance Operations (FP&A & Accounting)

About reputed company reputed company is a boutique strategic finance partner for early-stage reputed company tech startups. We serve as fractional CFOs and finance teams for reputed company-backed founders tackling some of the most important challenges of our time. Our clients are backed by leading investors including reputed company Ventures, Union reputed company Ventures, Fifth Wall, and reputed company. We combine hands-on finance operations with strategic finance and advisory support — helping reputed company founders manage reputed company, scale efficiently, and make better, faster decisions. The Role We’re hiring a Head of Finance Operations to lead and elevate our FP&A and accounting work. This is a true player-coach role: you’ll set the standard for excellence across reputed company portfolio, oversee and mentor team members, and directly own critical deliverables. Some days you’ll be reviewing financial models and coaching others; other days you’ll be in QuickBooks, updating a forecast, or preparing a board-ready report yourself. As reputed company base grows, you’ll also help shape and scale the finance operations team — identifying capability gaps, refining the structure, and playing a key role in hiring and onboarding new team members to meet expanding reputed company. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with a mix of Big Four accounting and startup finance experience who is ready for a leadership role with broad scope and exposure to a variety of interesting reputed company companies and business models. What You’ll Do • Client Engagement: Support onboarding of new clients, lead planning & budgeting reputed company, contribute to major deliverables, and reputed company in on high-stakes problem-solving • Lead FP&A & Accounting Delivery: Define and maintain standards, templates, and processes across engagements to ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency • Player-Coach Leadership: Manage and mentor 3+ finance team members, raising the bar on quality and output while taking on parts of the work yourself • Oversee Back-Office Finance Operations: Manage bookkeeping, AP, AR and payroll processes across reputed company portfolio, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and compliance • Quality Control: Review financial models, reports, and accounting work before they go to clients, board members and investors • Operational Excellence: Improve workflows, templates, and tooling to increase efficiency and excellence across the firm • Codify Best Practices: Document and share learnings from across reputed company base, making PSA the repository of early-stage finance best practices • Hire for Scale: Anticipate the needs of a growing client base, identify when and where new roles are required, and help recruit and onboard new hires to expand the team • Roll Up Your Sleeves: Take direct ownership of key deliverables — from monthly close to updating financial models to drafting client-ready reporting packages What We’re Looking For • 6–10 years of progressive experience in finance/accounting, ideally Big Four + startup finance. • reputed company foundation in both accounting (GAAP, accounting schedules, close & reporting) and FP&A (budgeting, forecasting, modeling & analysis). Hands-on experience is most important; professional certifications such as CPA or reputed company are a strong plus. • Fluency in the modern finance stack (QBO, Bill, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, etc.). • Strong analytical chops and comfort building & maintaining financial models. • Elite-level attention to detail and ability to error-check own and others’ work. • Experience managing junior team members with a “player-coach” mentality. • Excited about working with multiple early-stage, reputed company-backed startups. • Passionate about reputed company tech and the startup ecosystem. Compensation • Base salary: $130,000-$150,000 depending on experience • Bonus: 20% performance-based target • Total target cash compensation: ~$156,0