VP Finance and Operations

About the VP Finance and Operations role

Come and join a small but "mighty" finance team. For the VP of Finance role, we are looking for an independent and hard-working person driven by rigor and intellectual curiosity with an analytical and methodical mindset. You have excellent communication, analytical skills, organizational abilities, and leadership capabilities.

You are considered a coach, leader, and mediator by your peers, and you have demonstrated great interpersonal capabilities. You are a key team player, going the extra length to support the organization and help colleagues.

Your colleagues are impressed with your professional competence in finance and accounting. You have a very efficient and organized way of working with high-capacity individuals with highly developed skills in prioritization and timing. Attention to detail is of utmost importance, and data-driving focus is one of your superpowers, among others.

Responsibilities

Finance

• Partner with and report to the CFO to support all finance and accounting-related activities (both fiat and crypto) for Hedera.
• Organize, manage, and supervise statutory tax reporting and closely work with a tax advisor to complete Nexus analysis, among other key tax activities.
• Proactively identify and provide insight into variances to forecast, budget, and historical expenses to improve fiat and crypto.
• Work closely with department heads to monitor each department's spend, communicate budget to actual analysis, and complete re-forecasting.
• Support all activities related to financial audits and treasury management as needed.

Operations

• Lead the project management operations for Finance and be part of the overall PMO group at Hedera, reporting on a dotted line to the Chief of Staff.
• Collaborate to build, set up, review, and optimize the department rules, framework, procedures, policies, and workflows.
• Design and establish proactive frameworks in collaboration with Legal and Compliance to ensure the fulfillment of our liabilities.
• Enhance and implement financial and accounting systems, processes, tools, and control systems and ensure maintenance of appropriate internal controls and financial procedures.
• Build and/or support accounting data interfaces to facilitate regular KPI reporting (internal and external).
• Collaborate with the accounting team to continue to automate processes and ensure the timely close of month-end and year-end activities.

Leadership

• Together with the CFO, manage stakeholder relationships with and support TPA and SAFT purchasers.
• Build an understanding of business challenges, and become a subject matter expert in providing additional insights and solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external business partners and cross-functional teams with Council members, strategic vendors, and partners, and throughout the organization.
• Manage the annual budgeting process for Hedera and with critical vendors.
• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally for council meetings as required.
• Manage 1 or 2 individual contributors and coach them to bring the best out of them.

Skills/Qualities Needed

• Minimum ten years of Accounting, Treasury, or FPA experience, preferably in financial services.
• Start-up experience setting structures and scaling them.
• Experience building an automated FPA model for forecasting and projections.
• Experience presenting budgets and forecasts to senior management and external parties.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively document and articulate business issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Effective communicator, both written and oral.
• Strong attention to detail in assessing financial information.
• Knowledge of a wide range of reporting software (ERPs, expense management tools, TMS, etc.).

Skills/Qualities Preferred

• Post-secondary degree in a business or finance discipline (e.g., MBA or CFA).
• Minimum five years working in a SaaS, Crypto, Technology, or Financial Services Company.
• Working experience working in Crypto exchange, Web3, or layer 1.
• Coding and programming experience (e.g., SQL).
• Capital market experience.
• Experience managing a remote team.
• Ability to adapt and learn new processes and tasks.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.

Location

• Remote, willing to travel occasionally.

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Puesto de trabajo: Director/a Financiero/a
Conocimientos/habilidades: Contabilidad, Criptomonedas, ERP, Finanzas, Fintech, SaaS