Overview
This role involves owning day-to-day financial operations with a focus on revenue, billing, and financial accuracy for a customer-first monetization platform that supports advertisers, publishers, and consumers across a two-sided ads marketplace.
The position is foundational and requires managing how money moves through a multi-party marketplace—ensuring items are accurate, reconciled, and completed on time. Collaboration with a Fractional CFO is expected, while day-to-day execution is performed independently.
Responsibilities
- Own revenue, billing, and reconciliation
- Manage end-to-end billing across advertisers and partners, including invoicing, payouts, and reconciliation across affiliate platforms (e.g. Impact, Rakuten)
- Ensure revenue is accurate, traceable, and complete
- Run clean, reliable financial operations
- Own accounts payable and expense management
- Ensure invoices are captured, approved, and paid on time
- Build simple, effective processes that improve visibility and eliminate errors
- Support month-end close and reporting
- Maintain clean, current books and support monthly close
- Partner with the Fractional CFO to deliver clear, reliable reporting and investor-ready outputs
- Own US payroll and compliance hygiene
- Manage payroll via Rippling
- Ensure core US tax and compliance obligations are handled correctly
- Keep processes clean, documented, and under control
- Improve systems and reduce manual work
- Identify and implement improvements across the finance stack
- Reduce manual inputs and streamline workflows to support scaling
- Operate as a problem-solver
- Work through ambiguity and resolve discrepancies while keeping processes moving
Requirements
- 3–6 years’ experience in accounting or finance, with strong foundational training
- Degree-qualified in accounting, finance, or similar
- Experience handling revenue, billing, invoicing, or reconciliation
- Experience operating in fast-moving, ambiguous or unstructured environments (startup, scaleup, or consulting)
- Comfortable working with multi-party or performance-based revenue flows (e.g. marketplaces, affiliate, adtech, fintech)
- Strong grasp of core accounting processes (AP, AR, month-end close)
- Comfortable owning processes end-to-end and being accountable for outcomes
- High attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and completeness
- Ability to identify issues, work through ambiguity, and resolve discrepancies independently
- Track record of improving processes and reducing manual work
- Experience with accounting tools such as Xero, QuickBooks, or similar
- Clear and direct communication
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with affiliate platforms (e.g. Impact, Rakuten, CJ, Partnerize)
- Exposure to multi-entity or multi-currency environments
- Background in adtech, marketplaces, or performance-based revenue models
- Experience in an early-stage startup environment
Location & Working Style
- Strong preference for US West Coast-based candidates to enable effective collaboration across time zones
- Open to other US locations for exceptional candidates
- Remote-first, with a high degree of trust and ownership
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary plus ESOP
- Scope to grow the role as the organization grows