[Hiring] Finance Operator, Data @Mechanism Ventures

Role Description

The Finance Operator, Data builds the financial data infrastructure that all of our companies depend on. This is not a data engineering role, or a dashboard builder who hands outputs to other people. This is not a narrow technical role with a well-defined backlog.

• You are a finance person first, someone who understands how businesses work, can read a P&L, and knows whether a number is right or wrong.
• Your differentiator is that you are technically capable in ways most finance people are not, using SQL, data modelling, transformations, automation, and reporting infrastructure.
• You build things that produce correct financial outputs reliably, at scale, and communicate what those outputs mean to the people who need to act on them.
• In your first 6 months, you will be building more than just communicating, laying the foundation on which everything else runs.
• This role requires generalist financial acumen, driver-based instincts, multi-company fluency, and the breadth to operate independently at the highest level of the finance function.

What You’ll Do

• Build the data infrastructure all companies depend on.
• Build dashboards, models, automated reports, and data checks that are replicated across every company we launch.
• Combine your data expertise with your financial and accounting acumen to automate workflows like revenue recognition, cohort analysis, and reconciliations.
• Build a cohort analysis from raw transactional data by structuring the data, building the model, and making it interpretable to an operator.
• Create automated financial alerts that catch problems early and surface them automatically to minimize manual financial review.
• Grow into communicating what you build, explaining what the data means to CEOs, practice area leads, boards, and cross-functional teams.
• Handle the full financial surface area, navigating valuations, tax considerations, SPV distributions, inter-company billing, and funding proposals.
• Be a finance person first, understanding unit economics and knowing when a number is wrong.
• Operate in a multi-company environment, holding financial context across multiple businesses simultaneously.
• No passengers: you get better fast, build systems rather than just doing the work, and leave functions better than when you found them.

What You’ll Bring

• 3-6 years of FP&A, financial analysis, or a finance-adjacent analytical role.
• Ability to read a P&L, understand unit economics, and explain what a number means in business terms.
• Use SQL to answer financial questions, not just pull data.
• Experience building something from messy, real-world financial data.
• Understanding of revenue recognition across at least one business model well enough to defend it to an auditor.
• Knowledge of the difference between a technically correct output and a financially correct one.
• Experience building a cohort model from raw data.
• Experience working in a multi-entity environment.
• Familiarity with Aleph, Looker, Metabase, or a comparable FP&A or BI platform at the build level.
• Experience automating a reporting process that used to require manual work.
• Accounting literacy to spot a miscoded transaction and know the correct treatment.

This is not the right role if

• You think of yourself as a data analyst who happens to work in finance.
• You need a fully scoped backlog before you can prioritize your own work.
• You are more comfortable producing outputs than understanding what they mean.
• You reach for percentage-growth assumptions when you need a forecast.
• You want to stay in the data layer permanently and have no interest in using it to provide insights.
• You are looking for a mature, fully systematized finance function to step into.

Time Commitment

This role is full-time and will need to overlap with US ET for the majority of the workday. It is an exciting opportunity that demands a level of dedication beyond the standard 9 to 5.

Location

US-Based - Fully remote.

Compensation

Our compensation packages are designed to make this your dream job for the short and long term. Each compensation package is tailored to suit your priorities and can include base, equity in the companies we help build, and performance bonus based on the success of our portfolio companies. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and an unlimited time off policy with a two-week minimum.