Vice President, Strategic Finance
About The Position
Atomic is a venture studio that builds companies as co-founders, pairing innovative ideas with business discipline. We have launched and scaled over 20 companies. As a Vice President on the Strategic Finance team, you will work across our portfolio to ensure their success and through them, our funds’ success. For earlier stage companies, you will be their finance team, helping them hire their own teams as they grow and transition workflows. You will monitor portfolio companies’ performance, including financial and operating metrics, drawing attention to areas that need focus and working with partners and portfolio companies to take action. You will also be a partner to our 0:1 team, helping to create new companies from identifying focus areas to supporting investment decisions. This role has a broad mandate to help make strategic decisions that have a direct impact on a range of transformative businesses.
Requirements
- 4-6+ years of experience in PE, VC, IBD, or relevant investment/operating experience
- Exceptional quantitative skills, mastery of Excel, and ability to interface with and get data from operational data systems such as Mode, Looker, Tableau, etc
- Desire and ability to operate as a “full stack”, training and managing teams while being able to get hands on and do the work as needed
- Attention to detail and a trusted pair of hands to independently take on any responsibility
- Proactive attitude and an ability to separate signal from noise and define and test hypotheses to define a path forward even with imperfect and messy data
- Impeccable integrity and the ability to build trust with founders
- Experience with a wide range of business models, with strong pattern matching and ability to focus on what really matters while bringing founders along to key insights.
Responsibilities
- Build, and supervise associates in building financial models including considering unit economics, margins, cash flows, and non-financial KPIs
- Teach, manage, and support the growth of junior Strategic Finance team members
- Own the finance function for early-stage companies, working with the accounting team to ensure financial statements are closed on time and accurately, with useful financial reporting
- Put budgets in place, with regular monitoring of variances and budget vs. actuals
- Assess monetization strategies and pricing to support sustainable growth and margins
- Use industry research and public and private data sources to inform views on funding round size, investor mix, key metrics and milestones
- Lead and support equity and debt raises with company leadership, including writing narratives, preparing presentations, and preparing financial analyses and exhibits
- Define best practices, standards, and processes and build curriculums and template libraries that will teach founders to stand up best-in-class finance teams
- Provide analysis supporting portfolio company and Atomic investment decisions
- Monitor portfolio companies including financial and operating metrics
- Analyze potential fund-level returns and outcomes
- Value and support the valuation for companies, understanding how to justify the values and multiples using relevant metrics and comparables.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
