[Hiring] Finance Lead @White Circle

Role Description

We’re looking for a hands-on Finance Lead to own day-to-day accounting and finance operations:

• Reviewing expenses, invoices, and receipts
• Financial reporting, forecasting, and cash & burn tracking

You will:

• Own day-to-day finance and accounting operations across different entities, focusing on the US entity and US GAAP accounting
• Own the monthly financial close and ensure our reporting and financial data are accurate and up to date
• Work with external accountants, tax advisors, auditors, and other finance providers where needed
• Build and maintain financial reporting that gives a clear view of revenue, expenses, cash, burn, runway, and overall financial health
• Own budgeting and forecasting processes, including estimating revenue, expenses, headcount, cash needs, and runway
• Build and maintain financial models to support hiring, spending, pricing, fundraising, and other strategic decisions
• Help design and improve accounting and finance processes as we scale
• Prepare financial information and analyses for investors, fundraising processes, board materials, and due diligence
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive finance workflows and improve the quality and speed of financial reporting

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with US GAAP accounting (must-have)
• Strong accounting fundamentals and comfortable owning the financial close and financial reporting process
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of the finance function without needing a large team around you
• Experience with accounting or finance in a multi-entity or group company setup

Requirements

• CPA qualification (big plus)
• Experience with international accounting (big plus)
• Experience with financial forecasting, budgeting, cash flow planning, and burn/runway tracking (big plus)
• Ability to build lightweight dashboards and internal tools when needed to make financial analysis more accessible (big plus)
• Comfortable building financial models from scratch and using them to answer real business questions (big plus)
• Experience setting up finance and accounting processes from scratch (big plus)

Benefits

• Meaningful equity package
• Paid time off in line with your local regulations, no matter where you work from
• All the hardware, tools, and services you need
• Covered subscriptions for AI agents and IDEs
• Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez

How we hire

• Intro call (25 min)
• Take-home test task
• Final call with CEO (45 min)

Please submit your application in English.