Director of Finance, Floodbase
$110-150k
+ Equity
AI and satellite flood tracking
Be an early applicant
AI and satellite flood tracking
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-150k
+ Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To enable all communities to prepare and respond to climate disasters by reducing the barriers to scientific information and capital.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has several years of experience building and maintaining financial systems is excited to join our organization at the ground level, and wants to dive into the details and build a high-performing organization
- 4-7 years of work experience, including at least 2 years of experience in finance or accounting and at least 2 years at a venture-backed company
- Experience with legal work, such as contract negotiation with customers as well as external vendors
- Detailed-oriented with the ability to synthesize insights for an executive and investor-level audience
- Direct exposure to people operations such as benefits administration and performance management
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Will reinforce a culture of excellence, raising the bar for those you work with
- Thrive in ambiguity, independently and effectively prioritizing across multiple workstreams
- Enjoy working cross-functionally and solving the challenges your colleagues face
- Currently based in New York or willing to relocate
- BA or BS required
What the job involves
- Floodbase is looking to hire a full-time Director of Finance
- This individual will be responsible for the day-to-day management and strategy of the company’s finance, people, and legal operations
- This is a highly visible and cross-functional role, partnering with individuals across teams and levels
- Financial Modeling and Planning - Build and maintain our annual plan, holding teams accountable to revenue targets and providing the leadership team with accurate forecasts to support executive strategic decisions
- Examples include financial modeling with different scenarios for revenue and cost outlooks, BvA analysis, and managing an outside controller
- Investor Relations - manage the creation of materials for quarterly board presentations, monthly investor communications, strategic finance, and fundraising support
- Financial Operations - partner with internal and external teams to manage payroll, A/R, and A/P, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of financial statements
- Legal Operations - work with outside counsel to ensure our commercial agreements protect Floodbase’s intellectual property
- Contract Management - work with outside counsel to create standard templates and serve as reviewed prior to commercial commitments, ensuring compliance with all external parties
- Human Resource - manage our PEO and outsourced providers, design the employee handbook, take on mobility-related projects (e.g., visa applications), and conduct systems for on-off boarding
- Performance Management - manage our annual performance review process, compensation planning, and work to ensure our compensation and benefits remain competitive with the market
- Operational Excellence - create well-documented, repeatable systems that can effectively run on autopilot after conception, such as designing an employee onboarding program
- Strategic Projects in support of Floodbase CEO and executive team prioritized on an as-needed
Application process
- We will be accepting applications for this role through January 10, 2024
Our take
As natural disasters increase in occurrence due to climate change, Floodbase is addressing the uneven preemption times of insurers and government bodies by mapping and tracking potential floods through satellite imagery. Floobase uses the data collected to influence insurance claims and help communities prepare and respond to oncoming floods.
Founded by Masters students at Yale University, Floodbase’s prototype was supported by Google and quickly gained interest from investors due to its convergence of social and financial adaptation goals. Backed by several major low carbon investment firms, Floodbase’s photography has been featured on the front cover of major publications and its technology has been used by the United Nations to help improve disaster response times.
With plenty of capital behind it, Floodbase has little in the way of competition and is using its technical capabilities to develop new types of flood insurance for vulnerable communities.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2023
$12m
SERIES A
Sep 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $32.6m
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Articles
Leadership
Beth Tellman
(Chief Scientist)Currently Assistant Professor at University of Arizona. Previously Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University and MA Environmental Science at Yale University.
Bessie Schwarz
(CEO)Previously Strategist at Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Research Affiliate at Data Pop Alliance and Field Doctor at Environment Colorado.
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