Finance Director

What You’ll Do

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Act as a strategic thought partner to the CEO and leadership team on cash burn management, headcount planning, and fundraising preparation.
• Architect the future of Finance at Bretton: Develop a short-, medium-, and long-term vision for the department, ensuring the team and processes scale efficiently as the business grows.
• Deeply understand our business: Immerse yourself in our business model, customer base, partnerships, and overarching company vision.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Optimize pricing and margins: Collaborate actively with the sales and product teams to refine pricing strategies and improve profit margins.
• Align finance with product and engineering: Partner closely with engineering, product, and revenue teams to understand product lifecycles, business milestones, and data availability.

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

• Own end-to-end FP&A: Build the financial models, forecasts, and dashboards that provide leadership with a clear, real-time view of business performance.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting: Drive our annual budgeting process and maintain accurate rolling forecasts as the business evolves.

Accounting & Financial Operations

• Build and manage the finance tech stack: Oversee our end-to-end systems, migrating us to new tools when necessary to improve efficiency.
• Streamline AP & AR: Own Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, aggressively automating processes wherever possible.
• Manage the accounting foundation: Partner with our outsourced accounting team to ensure clean data flows into the ledger, and determine the right time to bring the function in-house.
• Prepare for scale: Lay the accounting groundwork now so that future complexities (like technical revenue recognition) become manageable when they arise.

What We’re Looking For

Must-Haves

• 5–10 years of finance experience, with a mix of FP&A, strategic finance, or operational finance. Demonstrated success at a high-growth startup, investment banking, and/or consulting helps.
• Strong enough accounting knowledge to avoid building technical debt. You don't need to be a controller, but you need to know what you don't know, and when to go to experts for help and advice.
• Experience setting up or significantly improving financial infrastructure from an early stage.
• Hands-on and self-sufficient: you're not waiting to hire a team to get things done - you’ll hunt data down on your own.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with imperfect information.
• Based in San Francisco [or willingness to relocate/travel].

Bonus Points

• Experience in fintech, regtech, or other regulated industries.
• Experience at a high-growth Series B+ startup.
• Familiarity with tools like QuickBooks, Orb, Rippling, or similar finance/HR platforms.
• Experience working alongside outsourced accounting teams and knowing how to get the most out of them.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary + meaningful equity
• Comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, commuter benefits
• Unlimited PTO + holidays, unlimited sick days
• Flexible leave options
• Working late? We've got you covered with DoorDash and an Uber home