Metronome
- Head Of Finance
Head Of Finance
Finance · San Francisco, United States
Job description
About Us
Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform built for modern software companies. We help teams launch products faster, iterate on pricing quickly, and deliver a first-class billing experience—all with speed, control, and confidence.Â
Our platform computes millions of invoices per billing period and is scaling rapidly to accommodate new customers, saving them hours of development time and manual invoicing and enabling them to use consumption data to better serve their customers. Our customers love our product and approach, and we’re humbled to work with amazing companies like OpenAI, Databricks, and NVIDIA.
You'll be joining an experienced team that includes founders who have successfully built and sold startups before. Our founders and employees also have direct experience building and scaling teams through massive growth at companies like Dropbox, Clever, and New Relic. On the back of this experience and our success-to-date, we’ve raised over $78m from leading investors including NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Elad Gil. We’re also proud to have founders and executives of companies like Segment, Plaid, Looker, Gitlab, Confluent, HashiCorp, and Snowflake, as investors who have experienced the pain we're solving firsthand.
About the Role
As the Head of Finance at a fast growing startup, your core responsibility is to facilitate the business to scale responsibly. You will establish and refine our financial strategy and operations across the business, in collaboration with our COO / CFO and our Head of Business Operations. As we grow, you will build out our finance and accounting functions.
Examples of Tasks You Might Work On
- Refactor our operating and burn models to support ongoing financial planning & analysis
- Establish and put into operation department-level budgeting
- Run our company-wide budgeting processes, both on an annual and quarterly basis
- Prepare financial reporting and analysis for consumption by leadership, the board, the company, and investors
- Model and monitor the margin profile of our products and services in partnership with our product and go-to-market organizations, informing pricing and packaging, infrastructure investments, and product viability assessments
- Perform our annual financial audit
- Develop and manage our accounting practice and operations
- Own or consult on our approach to risk management across the business, including legal, security, and HR
- Stand up data analytics to support business operations
Impact You'll Have
- Improve the operating rigor of the business across the board
- Inform leadership on core KPIs and outcomes
- Bring revenue and usage data into our core business operations (use Metronome to make Metronome better)
Minimum Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience, with at least one stint in finance or business operations at a small startup (less than ~200 people)
- Expertise with FP&A and attendant work, like burn modeling, budgeting, and margin analysis
- Expertise with modeling in general, including capacity planning and headcount
- Ability to supervise and own accounting, up to an audit process
- At least a spreadsheet wizard — strength with SQL and various data analytics platforms (Hex, Looker, etc.) are a plus
- Strong communication skills, especially communication with data
- Facility with revenue operations and its tools, including Salesforce
- Experience with management and team building
Bonus Points
- Business operations and strategy experience
- Experience working with business problems in infrastructure SaaS, including COGS analysis and R&D opex budgeting
Benefits
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage, including a One Medical membership
- Paid parental leave
- FSA (Flexible spending account)
- Retirement planning - Traditional and ROTH 401(k)
- Flexible time off
- Employee assistance program (mental health benefits)
- Culture where personal growth is highly valued
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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