Finance Manager

Propeller Industries • New York, NY

40d • Remote

About The Position

The Finance Manager role focuses on providing a variety of financial planning and analysis services to clients across Propeller’s portfolio of early-stage startup companies. In collaboration with other Propeller senior finance leaders, you will work with a variety of high-growth clients (ranging from Seed to Series C stage) to analyze their business, build detailed financial operating models, improve their forecasting, refine their financial reporting and use data to optimize strategic decision-making. You are accountable for hitting deadlines and developing and owning finance forecasts, budgets, and analysis with guidance and supervision as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 to 6 years in finance-focused roles
• 2+ years in investment banking and/or consulting
• 2+ years focused on FP&A and/or strategic finance in-house at a technology or high-growth company
• Great team player and work ethic
• Superior financial modeling and presentation skills
• Deep understanding of financial principals and expanding knowledge of accounting principals
• Ability to build complex 3 statement financial forecasts and provide in depth variance analysis and insights to inform business decisions
• Comfort with data and ambiguity, and an ability to delve into details and adapt priorities on the fly
• Good communication skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations to Propeller team as well as our clients
• Highly organized with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple client workstreams and respond to ad-hoc requests to support business decisions in timely and efficient manner
• Ability and desire to teach others within the organization to help grow the broader internal FP&A skill set

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detailed financial models for a variety of business models (e-commence, tech, professional services &/or consumer product goods)
• Develop business performance reporting and custom financial & operating KPI dashboards; Report on KPIs on a monthly basis
• Work hand-in-hand with accounting team to review and cross-check monthly client financial performance
• Perform monthly variance analysis focused on actuals vs. budgets vs. constantly evolving forecasts
• Work with clients to find analytical and modeling projects outside of the normal budgeting and review process to add additional value
• Provide input and advice to clients based upon scalable best practices to improve their results, improve internal processes, reduce or optimize costs and increase sales
• Identify strategic insights and big picture conclusions through analyzing the data
• Connecting analytical findings to a broader business / industry understanding, drawing on past experience and pattern recognition
• Assist clients in the fundraising process including building investor-facing models, leading financial diligence process, working directly with VCs, etc.
• Help train Propeller’s Financial Analyst team

Benefits

• Salary range: $100,000 - $125,000 plus bonus
• Generous Paid Time Off and Holiday pay
• Comprehensive health benefits plus dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life insurance
• HSA contribution
• Paid Family Leave
• 401k match
• Remote Work
• Professional development opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed