[Hiring] Senior Finance Manager @Skylight

Skylight is a fast-growing technology company based in Los Angeles and San Francisco, building the operating system for families. Our products bring together calendars, lists, routines, and memories—helping millions of families stay organized and connected around the world. Entirely bootstrapped, Skylight has scaled to hundreds of millions in annual revenue under founders who are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs.

We're seeking an experienced Senior Finance Manager to join our lean, high-impact finance team. Reporting to the Director of Finance, you'll own core FP&A processes and serve as a strategic thought partner to Sales, Marketing and Operations leadership. This is a hands-on role where you'll drive financial planning excellence while building scalable processes for our rapidly growing business. You will help deliver timely financial reporting, ad-hoc analyses and, ultimately, derive business insights to influence operational decisions as we continue to scale the business

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the existing Finance team to forecast the consolidated P&L, balance sheet, cash flow statement and 13-week cash flow model on an ongoing basis
• Own elements of our annual budgeting cycle end-to-end; partnering with cross-functional leaders to translate inputs and business strategy into financial plans
• Own the monthly close process from an FP&A perspective, including variance analysis and executive reporting
• Establish and maintain departmental best practices, improving processes and introducing systems as we scale
• Lead cross-functional meetings with Marketing, Sales and Operations
• Collaborate with Marketing and Sales to evaluate growth trajectory and forecast sales

• Work cross functionally with the Operations team to assist with inventory planning, ordering and process improvement 

• Partner with Accounting to improve reporting relevant to our forecasting processes, such as unit economics and BU-level performance
• Coordinate with Data to define and govern KPIs, and deliver executive-ready dashboards that drive decisions
• Partner with Director of Finance on modeling strategic initiatives including business case development, pricing analysis, new market evaluation and business model optimizations

Who You Are

• Naturally curious - if you see something that doesn’t make sense or piques your interest, you naturally want to get to the bottom of it
• Collaborative - we all have our own areas of expertise but everything we do impacts other teams so working cohesively with other teams is imperative
• Comfortable with ambiguity - we’re a startup and we often need to make decisions with imperfect information on short timelines
• Detail oriented - a must for any finance role; you double check your formulas and sanity check deliverables
• Strong communicator - you turn complex analyses into simple narratives, “so-what’s” and executive-ready materials
• Highly organized with strong time and expectation management - we have a lot to do, but it’s important that we’re honest with each other about how much can be done in a day
• Builder of better ways - you proactively streamline and automate current-state processes to create durable improvements

Requirements

• 5-7 years of progressive finance experience (investment banking, management consulting or accounting) with at least 2 years in FP&A/strategic finance 
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or similarly quantitative field 
• Strong financial modeling skills with advanced Excel skillset. You have built and maintained a 3-statement financial model and will be asked to complete a case study in the interview process to demonstrate this
• Solid command of GAAP and revenue recognition; can translate accounting outcomes into forward-looking drivers
• Able to work US–Pacific hours

Preferences

• Familiarity with BI tools, FP&A systems and/or SQL a plus

• Strong preference for: 

• Experience in a high growth environment
• Prior experience with inventory or subscription based business 
• Candidates based in Los Angeles

Interview Process

• Phone screen
• Hiring manager interview
• Panel interview
• Paid take-home project to demonstrate financial modeling abilities 
• In-person office visit

Benefits

Our competitive compensation package includes:

• Competitive Salary + Equity Package
• 401K matching
• Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets
• Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans
• Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work
• Unlimited PTO
• Company holidays on the first Friday of every month (Excluding November, December, and January)

Equal opportunity employer

Skylight is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you’re the best person for the job, we want you on board!

We hire across the U.S., but for legal reasons, we have to list NY and CO separately.

For Colorado-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $150-165k based on experience and for California-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $150-165k based on experience. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of this law.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

About the company

Skylight is a technology startup based out of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Our mission is to make technology that brings families together. We make consumer products, like Skylight Frame and Skylight Calendar, that are loved by millions of people across the globe. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs, who have scaled this business to $100M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped. We think often about the millions of smiles we are able to put on our customers’ faces each day, and it fills our hearts with purpose. That’s why we have been working hard to expand our team and invent, so that we can continue to bring the magic of Skylight to millions more loved ones throughout the world.

At Skylight, we have three core principles that guide our work and help us manage the business day to day: autonomy, rigor, and care. These principles show up early and often and help guide the work we do and the way we work.