Overview
This role is responsible for leading the organization’s finance function, with a strong accounting/controllership foundation and the breadth to manage financial planning and analysis, finance operations, and organization-level decision support.
The position reports to the Chief Operating Officer and serves as the most senior finance professional, directly managing the Senior Staff Accountant and Senior FP&A Analyst.
This is a hands-on functional leadership role that involves building the systems, controls, reporting, and finance practices needed for the organization’s next stage of growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, and finance operations.
- Manage and develop the finance team by setting priorities, responsibilities, review practices, and accountability.
- Oversee monthly and annual close, financial reporting, reconciliations, accounting policies, and internal controls.
- Oversee accounting and revenue recognition across donations, subscriptions, enterprise arrangements, partnerships, and other revenue streams.
- Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, longer-range financial planning, and scenario analysis.
- Develop clear management reporting and visualizations to communicate key trends, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions.
- Oversee tax, audit, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and related work with external advisers.
- Evaluate financial, tax, accounting, and operational implications of entering new jurisdictions or establishing additional entities.
- Partner with Enterprise Partnerships and Legal to establish financial reporting, reconciliation, and control processes for partner-led commercial arrangements.
- Oversee financial reporting to the parent organization and affiliated entities.
- Own financial oversight of payroll across multiple providers in partnership with the People team.
- Strengthen finance systems and workflows, including accounting, expense management, payment-platform reconciliation, documentation, and automation.
- Oversee cash-flow planning, treasury, banking, and investment activities in collaboration with the Senior FP&A Analyst.
- Serve as a trusted finance adviser to organizational leaders by translating complex financial information into clear recommendations.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant professional experience, including progressively responsible roles spanning accounting, financial planning and analysis, and finance operations.
- Significant accounting or controllership experience, including responsibility for U.S. GAAP financial reporting, close processes, internal controls, revenue recognition, and complex accounting judgments.
- 5+ years of people management experience in a finance or accounting environment, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, career development, and team development.
- Demonstrated ability to improve budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial data visualization; ability to translate complex information into clear insights and recommendations for non-finance leaders.
- Substantive experience with subscription, SaaS, digital-product, enterprise, or comparable technology-based revenue models.
- Experience supporting partner-led commercial arrangements (e.g., reseller, licensing, wholesale, or revenue-sharing models), including evaluating financial terms and developing or overseeing reporting, reconciliation, controls, and revenue-recognition processes.
- Working knowledge of merchant-of-record arrangements, payment platforms, indirect tax, and international VAT/GST requirements.
- Experience supporting an internationally distributed organization and coordinating financial obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Proven ability to oversee tax, audit, and other external finance requirements and effectively manage outside advisers.
- Experience providing oversight and review of cash management, treasury, banking, and organizational investment activities, including developing recommendations for senior decision-makers.
- Track record of strengthening financial systems, workflows, documentation, and controls.
- Strong judgment and comfort balancing people leadership, detailed financial review, practical hands-on problem-solving, and organization-level decision support.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including identifying and explaining financial risks, implications, and tradeoffs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within a subsidiary, portfolio, federated, or similarly affiliated organizational structure, including reporting to a parent organization or shareholder.
- Prior work supporting the establishment of a new legal entity or expansion into a new jurisdiction.
- Familiarity with Intacct, Ramp, or comparable finance and expense-management systems.
- Experience in a mission-driven, open-source, nonprofit-affiliated, or similarly values-oriented organization.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary
- US: $165,000 - $190,000 USD
The organization benchmarks base salaries to local markets and targets the 60th percentile of the peer market. Title, level, and compensation will be determined based on qualifications and experience; candidates with strong skills but less than the required experience may be considered.
Benefits
- Fully remote work & schedule flexibility
- Company-provided laptop
- Annual bonus program
- Monthly remote work stipend
- Annual professional development stipend
- Access to Coursera learning platform
- Company all-hands and team gatherings
Time off & wellbeing
- 24 days PTO per year (prorated)
- Your birthday
- Year-end company shutdown
- 9 wellbeing days
- Public holidays
- Other paid leave
- Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal / family activities
Health & family
- 401(k) contributions
- Health, dental, & vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Paid parental leave
- Paid sick days
Location & Work Environment
- Full-time, fully remote position.
- Regular working-hour overlap is required with the COO, finance team, and other colleagues across North American time zones.
- Candidates based in Eastern or Central time zones are preferred.
- Candidates elsewhere in the United States should be comfortable maintaining substantial overlap with those working hours.
- Flexibility is expected for meetings with colleagues, advisers, and affiliated organizations in Europe.
- Availability to participate in required company-wide gatherings and team workweeks, which may involve periodic domestic or international travel.
Work Eligibility
Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the country location(s) specified in the posting. Applicants outside these markets cannot be considered, and visa sponsorship is not provided.