Finance Manager, Offchain Labs
FP&A, Crypto
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Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution
Open for applications
Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Offchain Labs' mission is to make Blockchain better.
Role
Who you are
- This position requires someone adept at scaling finance processes, capable of complex financial engineering, and committed to translating operational data into clear, actionable financial strategy
- We are looking for an individual who can elevate the FP&A function to support sustained hyper-growth
- Strategic Ownership & Executive Presence: Proactively identify complexities, define comprehensive solutions, and assume full accountability for results. Confidently articulate sophisticated financial analysis to C-level leadership
- Data-Driven Insight & Modeling: Utilize advanced data query skills and sophisticated modeling techniques to transform ambiguous information into clear, decisive, and actionable business insights
- Process Architecture & Scalability: Possess a strong bias for action, focused on designing and implementing scalable systems and processes that enable high-velocity operations and sustained corporate growth
- Collaboration & Trust: Deeply committed to fostering transparency and building strong, trusting relationships across all cross-functional teams (including Product, Engineering, and HR)
- Agile Resilience & Problem-Solving: Thrive in a dynamic, evolving market, demonstrating agility and resilience. Eager to dive into the necessary detail to solve complex and novel financial challenges
- Experience: A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), ideally within a high-growth technology or FinTech environment
- Financial Modeling: Expert-level proficiency in advanced financial modeling, with a proven ability to build and maintain the core Operating Model that governs company-wide planning cycles
- Technical Organization Support: Mandatory strong experience supporting a technical organization, specifically in modeling R&D, infrastructure, and engineering headcount/capital expenditures (capex)
- Technical Skills: Required advanced proficiency in Excel/Sheets and a strong command of SQL for effective data extraction and manipulation
- System Experience: Experience with the implementation or optimization of FP&A systems (e.g., Runway, Mosaic, Anaplan, Adaptive) is highly desirable
- Leadership & Communication: A proven track record of ownership, clear communication of complex financial strategy, and driving cross-functional accountability
What the job involves
- We are seeking a proactive, highly strategic, and systems-oriented Finance Manager, FP&A to join our finance team. This crucial role serves as a strategic planning lead responsible for driving forecasting accuracy, maintaining the company's Operating Model, and optimizing resource allocation in a dynamic, high-growth technology environment
- The ideal candidate will be an indispensable business partner to the executive team and functional leaders, owning the entire planning lifecycle from strategy to execution
- Operating Model Management: Serve as the owner and manager of the Company Operating Model, which functions as the annual plan and primary driver-based financial blueprint for the organization
- Forecasting Leadership: Lead the quarterly and rolling forecasting processes, ensuring strong alignment between future financial projections and key operational metrics
- Planning & Accountability: Drive both top-down strategic resource allocation and bottoms-up operational planning (detailing resource requirements) to enforce budget rigor, accuracy, and executive accountability
- Advanced Financial Modeling: Develop and maintain complex financial models to evaluate strategic initiatives, including ROI analysis for infrastructure, product development, and expansion projects
- Profitability and Margin Analysis: Lead in-depth analysis of margins and profitability, establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) and identifying critical cost drivers across products and new business units
- Strategic R&D Partnership: Serve as the financial liaison to Engineering and Product leadership, managing operating budgets, analyzing capital allocation trade-offs, and driving optimal spending efficiency for all Research & Development investments
- Executive Reporting and Strategic Analysis: Be responsible for the development and presentation of all executive-level financial materials, delivering in-depth strategic analysis on company performance, key financial risks, and future fiscal planning
- Process and System Automation: Lead initiatives to automate and integrate systems within the FP&A function, specifically focused on enhancing data quality, accelerating reporting cycles, and increasing planning efficiency (e.g., integrating planning software with ERP systems and Data Warehouses)
- Team Development and Mentorship: Cultivate a high-performing FP&A team by mentoring junior members and promoting a culture defined by intellectual rigor and curiosity
Our take
The Ethereum blockchain has seen a surge in activity over the past year or so - but, much to users' frustration, its transaction volume has failed to scale accordingly, leading to hefty gas fees and slow transaction times. Offchain Labs is one of a few players developing Layer 2 rollup solutions, and its Arbitrum rollup has gathered substantial momentum and support in a relatively short time.
Offchain Labs’ Arbitrum claims to offer all the benefits of a rollup - less costly, more efficient - without compromising on security. It is, at the time of writing, the only scaling solution for Ethereum that has working fraud proofs, and at the end of 2021 was dominating the layer 2 rollup market share.
This kind of high profile and superior efficacy determines a successful blockchain technology. With Offchain Labs’ leadership pedigree, it’s no surprise the company is leading rollup innovation efforts. This sector, however, moves at lightning speed—and the competing ZK rollups are by no means out of the picture just yet.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2021
$120m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $143.7m
Company benefits
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Environment geared toward brainstorming and learning
- Generous paid time off - everyone needs to recharge!
Company HQ
Princeton, NJ
Leadership
Steven Goldfeder
(CEO & Co-Founder)A Princeton PhD graduate in Computer Science, who also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech.
Ed Felten
(Chief Scientist & Co-Founder)A retired Princeton professor of Comp Sci & Public Affairs, who formerly worked as Deputy United States CTO at the White House.
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