Vice President of Finance, Seso
$210-270k
Workforce platform focusing on the agricultural industry
Open for applications
Workforce platform focusing on the agricultural industry
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$210-270k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the premier platform for agribusiness to hire and manage their workforce and improve the lives of agricultural workers.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required; Master’s degree a plus
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Finance Leadership role in a hypergrowth Series A-D Vertical SaaS company
- Previous Private Equity, Investment Banking or Consulting experience
- Strong negotiating skills and the ability to influence others
- Sound judgment with a high level of integrity to execute with significant financial impact
- Experience managing remote teams, preferably both domestic and international
- Interested in continuously improving processes within and across all departments
- Growth-oriented mindset and entrepreneurial management style with the ability to focus on company growth strategy
- Can make effective decisions under pressure, in a high-volume fast paced environment
- Organized with the ability to prioritize multiple projects and meet critical deadlines
- Self-directed; takes initiative, proactively addresses problems
- Ability to speak Spanish a plus
- This candidate will have strong financial modeling skills, deep understanding of startup and corporate finance concepts, and ability to synthesize complex data to drive financial performance and support the company’s progress toward its financial goals and revenue targets
What the job involves
- As our VP of Finance you will oversee the financial and operational activities of the organization
- Reporting to the CEO, you’ll be a trusted advisor to executive leadership on strategic financial decisions and serve as an analytical partner across the entire organization
- You will build out a world-class finance function and team, and maintain critical control of all the strategic and day to day aspects of finance, accounting, revenue cycle management, budgeting, forecasting, and business analytics
- Take ownership of Seso’s overall corporate budget by overseeing the quarterly and annual budget process, including the development of revenue forecasts, income statements, expense forecasts, cash forecasts, and balance sheet
- Manage cash flow, working capital, and risk management strategies to optimize financial resources and mitigate risks
- Provide analytical leadership for all significant fundraising decisions, as well comprehensive analysis and summaries on business decisions for Executives and the Board
- Responsible for advising executive team concerning compliance matters related to applicable financial regulatory requirements
- Develop and drive ROI-based framework for evaluating Seso’s headcount and operational investments, in partnership with department heads
- Drive P&L ownership at department and sub-department levels through variance measurement and reporting
- Define KPI metrics, incorporating processes to accurately measure
- Lead the Finance and Accounting team in driving monthly, quarterly, and annual financial budget updates
- Attract, develop, and retain a high performing team to meet the current and evolving needs of the business through effective selection, training, and development, coaching and mentoring and performance management
Our take
Sweeping changes to migration policy have created a dramatic labor shortage in the US agriculture industry. This has had significant knock-on effects on farmers, the communities they support, and the economy as a whole. Seso is setting out to help solve this problem with its innovative agricultural workforce platform.
Seso was founded by two former analysts who turned their expertise towards the underserved agricultural industry. Working to address labor shortages, Seso is streamlining the H-2A visa process for workers, giving farms access to a large network of legal migrant workers. The company is looking to develop and deploy more services for the workers themselves, as well as for their employers. This will create an impressively wide range of revenue lines for Seso moving forward.
With pressures on producers continuing to mount, demand for solutions like Seso's is likely to grow in the next decade. The company is well-positioned to take advantage of this trend, but it faces significant competition from larger H-2A worker program providers. As such, diversification will be key to Seso's continued survival.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2024
$26m
SERIES B
Apr 2022
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55.5m
Company HQ
Central Waterfront, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael Guirguis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Senior Associate at McKinsey, and was VP of Operations at Yup.com. Is currently a Fellow at Stanford Law School CodeX.
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