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About The Position

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive finance experience, with meaningful time spent building or scaling a strategic finance function at a growth-stage startup (Series A through C).
• Deep FP&A craft—you’ve owned a company-level model, run a budget cycle, and partnered with operators to drive forecast accuracy and accountability.
• Sharp instincts on unit economics and pricing—you can break down a P&L into the drivers that actually move it, and you’ve translated that work into pricing or margin frameworks that changed how a business operates.
• Comfort evaluating bets with longer payback horizons—you can build the case for investments in IP, R&D, or new product lines that don't fit a clean DCF, and help leadership decide with conviction when the data is incomplete.
• Exceptional communicator—you can walk a co-founder through a model on a whiteboard and write the board memo that lands the same conclusion in a paragraph.
• High ownership and low ego—you’re happy to build the spreadsheet yourself, push back on a partner when the numbers warrant it, and operate without a playbook.

Nice To Haves

• Bonus: experience inside a consulting, professional services, or other people-driven services business—you understand utilization, gross margin, and the economics of staffed engagements.

Responsibilities

• Own FP&A end-to-end—build and maintain the company-wide operating model, lead the annual budget and quarterly reforecast process, and partner with department leads to drive accountability against plan.
• Build the pricing and unit economics engine—develop the frameworks that govern how Tenex prices engagements, measures pod-level profitability, and evaluates margin trade-offs; turn that work into pricing guidance the commercial team can actually use.
• Be the financial partner to the co-founders—deliver the analysis, scenarios, and recommendations behind the most consequential decisions Tenex makes, from headcount planning to new offerings to capital allocation.
• Own the capital allocation framework for IP and R&D — design and run the decisionmaking process Tenex uses to weigh investment in research, internal tooling, and product-bound technology against hiring more client-facing talent; help the partners size each bet, define what success looks like, and grade outcomes over time so we get smarter with every cycle.
• Drive the rhythm of the business—establish the cadences, dashboards, and reviews that keep the leadership team focused on the metrics that matter, and surface issues early enough to act on them.
• Build the foundation for what comes next—evolve the systems, tooling, and processes (and eventually the team) needed to support Tenex through its next stages of growth.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage (PPO and HSA options), dental, and vision
• HSA, Healthcare FSA, and Commuter Benefits
• 100% employer-paid life insurance + AD&D
• 100% employer-paid long-term disability insurance
• Responsible PTO—take what you need
• The base salary for this role is $200,000 - $260,000 annually, with opportunities for further upside (bonus/equity) tied directly to your output.