VP of Finance

Loman AI•Austin, TX

17h

About The Position

Loman is hiring its first senior finance leader to build the financial operating system for the company’s next stage of growth. The VP of Finance will own finance end to end, including forecasting, budgeting, accounting oversight, cash management, board reporting, fundraising support, financial systems, controls, and strategic decision support. The role will build an investor-grade finance function from existing outside partners and processes, combining strategic leadership with hands-on execution. The VP of Finance will own financial planning and strategy, SaaS metrics and unit economics, accounting and financial operations, fundraising and investor reporting, business partnership, and finance systems and team design. This person will work directly with the CEO and leadership team, providing financial insight on company strategy, hiring, compensation, pricing, enterprise deals, vendor negotiations, and resource allocation. The role will also establish reliable reporting, scalable controls, and the systems and team needed as Loman grows. Within the first 90 days, success includes validating or rebuilding the operating model, establishing weekly visibility into key financial measures, improving the monthly close, defining trusted company metrics, clarifying department budgets, and identifying priority gaps in controls, systems, reporting, and operations. Within 12 months, Loman aims to have an investor-grade finance function ready for fundraising, useful forecasts and board reporting, actionable gross margin and unit economics visibility, and finance systems and a team prepared for scale. The position is based in Austin, Texas, reports directly to the CEO, and offers a base salary of $180,000 to $240,000, a 15% target bonus, and 0.25% to 0.60% equity. Loman offers health, dental, and vision insurance and flexible time off. The company describes a path toward CFO as it scales.

Requirements

At least 8 years of progressive experience across strategic finance, FP&A, accounting, investment banking, private equity, or related roles.
Meaningful experience inside a venture-backed B2B SaaS or technology company.
Experience building or significantly upgrading a finance function at a Seed through Series B company.
Direct experience supporting at least one institutional fundraising or major financing process.
Advanced financial modeling skills and deep fluency in SaaS metrics.
Strong understanding of financial statements, accounting operations, controls, and cash management.
Experience preparing board materials and communicating with investors.
Ability to turn messy operational data into clear financial insight.
High ownership, strong judgment, and extreme attention to detail.
Direct communication style and willingness to challenge assumptions.
Comfort moving between strategic work and hands-on execution without waiting for a larger team.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a company’s first senior finance hire.
Experience building systems to replace recurring manual work.
Ability to explain complicated financial tradeoffs in plain English and distinguish useful precision from analysis that slows decisions.
Enjoyment of working directly with founders in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Interest in building toward a CFO role as the company scales.
Experience with vertical SaaS, restaurant technology, payments, marketplaces, telecommunications, or usage-based software.
Experience with multi-location or franchise business models.
Familiarity with restaurant POS and payment ecosystems.
Experience improving gross margins in an AI- or infrastructure-intensive software business.
Experience with acquisitions, international expansion, or multi-entity operations.
CPA, CFA, or MBA.

Responsibilities

Own the company’s financial model, annual plan, rolling forecast, and long-range planning.
Maintain visibility into revenue, expenses, cash, burn, runway, and hiring capacity; build scenario models for growth, pricing, hiring, and capital allocation decisions.
Establish operating targets and hold teams accountable to budgets and financial outcomes.
Create a source of truth for SaaS metrics, including ARR, MRR, retention, expansion, churn, CAC, payback, gross margin, and burn efficiency.
Analyze unit economics by customer segment, restaurant type, acquisition channel, product, and location count.
Improve visibility into telephony, AI infrastructure, payment, onboarding, support, and integration costs.
Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering on pricing, packaging, margins, and capital efficiency.
Own the quality and timeliness of the monthly close and oversee accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, tax, insurance, and outside finance partners.
Build scalable controls, approval processes, purchasing policies, and expense management systems.
Ensure revenue recognition, commissions, deferred revenue, and customer contracts are handled accurately; prepare for audits, diligence, and increasing reporting complexity.
Lead financial preparation for future fundraising, including ownership of the data room, financial diligence, investor requests, scenario analysis, and supporting materials.
Prepare board reporting, maintain investor reporting, and support the CEO in investor and board communications.
Manage the cap table, option planning, 409A process, and equity administration with legal and external partners.
Advise the CEO and leadership team on hiring, compensation, pricing, enterprise deals, vendor negotiations, and new initiatives; identify financial and operational risks.
Help functional leaders understand their numbers and make effective resource-allocation decisions.
Design the finance technology stack, automate repetitive finance workflows, improve data quality across systems, and build performance dashboards.
Determine the finance team structure as Loman scales, and recruit and develop an internal finance organization over time.