Fractional CFO (Strategic Finance Focus)

VeloCFO

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About The Position

At VeloCFO, you'll work alongside some of the world's most ambitious technology founders as they build category-defining companies. Our fractional CFO team helps high-growth startups navigate critical milestones, from fundraising and financial strategy to capital allocation, forecasting, and building the operational rigor required to scale. If you're excited by the pace of startups, enjoy solving complex business challenges, and want to make a meaningful impact across a portfolio of innovative companies, VeloCFO offers the opportunity to do your best work alongside exceptional entrepreneurs and teammates.

Requirements

• 7-10+ years of experience in finance, with a proven track record advising clients and partnering with management teams.
• Experience in investment banking or a similar advisory environment, combined with operating experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, or Business Operations at high-growth technology companies.
• Self-starter with a strong ownership mentality, able to take ambiguous problems, structure them, and drive them through to completion with minimal oversight.
• Comfort working across both detailed analysis and executive-level synthesis, with the ability to translate complex financial workstreams into decision-ready insights for founders and leadership teams.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling expertise, including building scalable, driver-based operating models and translating business drivers into financial outputs.
• Leveraging AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) to enhance analytical depth, speed, and workflow automation.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and key performance metrics in technology businesses, including ARR, MRR, revenue retention, churn, CAC, LTV, and gross margin.
• Basic familiarity with modern accounting and finance tooling across the stack, including accounting systems (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite, Rillet, Campfire), spend management (e.g., Ramp), billing (e.g., Stripe, Tabs), and financial planning tools.

Nice To Haves

• Operating experience at AI-native companies.
• Prior exposure to board-level communication is a strong plus.
• Experience managing or analyzing compute-related spend in AI labs or high-performance computing environments.

Responsibilities

• Own development of a drivers-based financial model to provide management teams with visibility into their business. The model will serve as the backbone for annual planning / re-forecasting, scenario analysis, cash management and investor storytelling.
• Institutionalize a repeatable, timely model update process tied to accounting’s month-end close to provide an up-to-date view of the business incorporating actuals.
• Own monthly budget vs. actuals (BvA) reporting, with emphasis on variance analysis and actionable recommendations to help management calibrate investment levels to meet growth targets or preserve runway
• Work closely with VeloCFO's Accounting team to align P&L structure to management’s reporting preferences, ensuring clear visibility into the cost base and margins
• Deliver high-impact analyses to support management decisions across M&A, fundraising, pricing, unit economics, sales capacity planning and cohort retention analysis to drive strategic growth opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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