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Finance Manager - Job Description

Responsibilities:

The Finance Manager role focuses on providing a variety of FP&A services to clients across Propeller’s portfolio of early stage startup companies. 

In collaboration with other Propeller senior finance leaders, you will work with a variety of high-growth clients (ranging from Seed to Series C stage) to analyze their business, build detailed financial operating models, improve their forecasting, refine their financial reporting and use data to optimize strategic decision-making.

Specific responsibilities of the Finance Manager include:

• Build and maintain detailed financial models for a variety of business models (e.g. Saas, DTC, Professional services and/or CPG)
• Develop business performance reporting and custom financial & operating KPI dashboards; Report on KPIs on a monthly basis
• Work hand-in-hand with accounting team to review and cross-check monthly client financial performance 
• Perform monthly variance analysis focused on actuals vs. budgets vs. constantly evolving forecasts
• Work with clients to find analytical and modeling projects outside of the normal budgeting and review process to add additional value
• Provide input and advice to clients based upon scalable best practices to improve their results, improve internal processes, reduce or optimize costs and increase sales
• Identify strategic insights and big picture conclusions through analyzing the data 
• Connecting analytical findings to a broader business / industry understanding, drawing on past experience and pattern recognition
• Assist clients in the fundraising process including building investor-facing models, leading financial diligence process, working directly with VCs, etc.
• Help train Propeller’s Financial Analyst team

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 to 6 years in finance-focused roles such as:
• 2+ years in investment banking and/or consulting
• 2+ years focused on FP&A and/or strategic finance in-house at a technology or high-growth company
• Great team player and work ethic
• Superior financial modeling and presentation skills
• Comfort with data and ambiguity, and an ability to delve into details and adapt priorities on the fly
• Good communication skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations to Propeller team as well as our clients
• Highly organized with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple client workstreams and respond to ad-hoc requests to support business decisions in timely and efficient manner
• Ability and desire to teach others within the organization to help grow the broader internal FP&A skill set

At Propeller Industries, we encourage our employees and our clients to bring their true selves to the organization. We believe that a diverse team enables us to cultivate and improve upon our culture of inclusion and collaboration. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome the contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. So however you identify and whatever your background, we encourage you to apply for this role if you share our passion for helping great entrepreneurs build great companies. We look forward to meeting you!