Head of Finance, Notabene

• You’ll act as both player and coach, with the energy and humility to roll up your sleeves and get things done, but with the maturity to manage a small but mighty team, hold them accountable for reaching ambitious goals, and help them build their own successful careers at Notabene
• Extensive experience (6-10 years) in FP&A and finance, including 3+ years in an early stage (Series A to C) B2B software company
• Experience and familiarity with Accounting
• A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or a related field
• Passion for solving complex business problems, diving into data, driving process improvement, and leading change throughout an organization
• Exceptional project management, organizational, and time management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Strategic thinking to anticipate downstream impacts of proposed decisions, understand and map edge cases, and engage the right people at the right time to reach the right conclusion
• The ability to work onsite at our Brooklyn, NY headquarters alongside our COO

Desirable

• The Head of Finance will be a foundational finance hire to help scale Notabene through its next phase of growth
• As our Head of Finance, you will lead our accounting and strategic finance functions, building out these teams over time while personally owning FP&A and supporting the company’s fundraising efforts
• You’ll work cross-functionally with leaders from across the company, report to the COO, and empower our management team with data-driven insights that support strategic decision making.
• It will be critically important to step into this role with a bias toward action, identifying areas for improvements and implementing solutions to improve transparency and efficiency of our finance and operations processes
• Lead Notabene’s Finance function, ensuring excellence and operational efficiency across all processes
• Create financial analyses for the COO/CEO, including: defining key metrics and performance indicators, reporting on and monitoring progress toward company goals, surfacing information to allow for confident and agile decision-making, and delivering presentation materials and driving discussions for board and leadership meetings
• Work cross-functionally with the Go-To-Market, Customer Success, and Operations teams to solve complex business problems and drive strategic planning
• Own day-to-day financial processes, including: accounting policies, month-end close, A/R and A/P, managing our cap table via Pulley, compliance/investor reporting, ensuring tax compliance through outsourced tax advisory providers across multiple regions and jurisdictions, etc
• Oversee the company’s data ‘plumbing’, streamlining the way data flows between Sales (the CRM), Legal (contract depository), Customer Success (billing system), Accounting (ERP) and the executive team (board presentations)
• Work with leadership on strategic projects designed to increase revenue and operational efficiency
• Define what a Finance team at Notabene looks like, and partner with People Ops to hire, onboard, and manage the performance of future Finance team members