Braintrust Internal is hiring a

Web3 Director of Finance

Title: Director of Finance

About Braintrust

• We’re creating a new marketplace business model that is owned and operated by the community and powered by a blockchain token.
• Founded by two serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits, Adam Jackson and Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski.
• We have 500+ Fortune 1,000 customers including Nestle, Nike, Porsche, Deloitte, Twitter, Coursera + more
• We’ve raised $142M in funding from leading Silicon Valley Investors including Tiger Global Management, Coatue, Coinbase Ventures, IDEO, Blockchange, Uprising, True Ventures, Homebrew, ACME + more
• We’ve been featured in The New York Times, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal + more

Make an Impact

• We’re not going after a small problem or a small market. We’re creating a new economic model for how work gets done globally.
• We believe talent is everywhere but opportunity is not; our ambition is to spread economic opportunity more equitably around the world.
• At Braintrust, the work you do will help accelerate innovation for enterprises, and make a difference in the lives of freelancers.

Hop on the Rocketship

In the past 18 months:

• Gross Services Volume (GSV) grew by 2,079%, from $1.2M to $30M+
• The number of enterprises (Clients) jumped 752%, from 63 to 600+
• Job-seekers (Talent) flocked to the platform growing from 2,194 to over 35,000
• The network’s Community grew 70X from 10,000 to over 700,000 members

Team and Culture

• We are a mission driven culture composed of ambitious, creative and hard working people.
• We started and will always be a fully distributed company across 15 different countries.
• We offer unlimited PTO and the flexibility to work wherever and whenever is best for you
• We offer best in class health care benefits, and cover 75% for you, and 50% for your dependents.
• We provide $100/ mo gym & house cleaning stipends
• We provide a $500 annual learning & development credit, and a $200 technology stipend

About the Role:

As the Director of Finance and first finance hire, you will have an opportunity to build the finance organization from scratch for the fastest growing Web3 talent marketplace today. In this role you will manage overall financial operations and reporting, financial statements and accounting, financial systems, and work closely with the co-founders on strategic finance. You will be core to creating our culture around financial rituals and rigor and building out the team to support our exponential growth and be a catalyst for change where needed across different functions.

Areas of Focus:

This is not a typical Finance leader role. While we are looking for someone with a Finance (accounting & FP&A) background, you need to be comfortable in a high growth environment focused on building, monitoring and enhancing processes and systems that ensure financial health of our network. In this role, you are not only an expert in all things Finance, but also someone who can help us think through and build the processes around an effective Finance effort. You are able to identify and analyze an existing/potential problem and find suitable solutions for each situation.

Responsibilities

• Manage overall financial operations to ensure accuracy in financial reporting and metrics
• Own the P&L, invoicing and billing systems, and accounting processes
• Be the subject matter expert in Finance to assist with process improvements and to develop new tools and analysis to enhance our understanding of the business.
• Build out the Finance team to help drive and enable the company's fast growth: anticipate needs, identify, hire, and develop the Finance team.
• Bulletproof our reporting process to provide actionable insights to leadership across the organization in a timely manner.
• Manage all aspects of cash flow by monitoring the in and out flows of capital (e.g., implement billing and expense tracking processes).
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with leadership to support data driven business decisions
• Manage processes for financial forecasting, budgets, budget v actual reviews, finance KPIs and financial consolidation and reporting to the Company
• Evaluate and advise on the impact of long-range planning, introduction of new programs and strategies
• Oversee outsourced accounting team deliverables ensuring monthly books close accurately and reconciliation is scalable

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in finance organizations - accounting and / or FP&A, marketplaces are a plus
• A deep understanding of financial principles including US GAAP, best practices, and marketplace business levers/KPIs.
• An excellent knowledge of data analysis and forecasting methods.
• Experience of managing accounts receivable and payables at scale
• Track record of building strong teams and leading / influencing others
• Cross-functional leader; experience engaging with sales, product/engineering, operations
• Analytical mindset with advanced Excel skills
• Clear and concise communicator both written and spoken
• Extremely organized - handling multiple projects at once
• Process-oriented self starter who can identify and fill gaps before others
• Thrive in a flexible, remote only environment

About You:

You are looking for a new challenge as a builder and an owner. You are excited to get into the details to discover new ways to make substantial leaps of improvements. You embrace autonomy with accountability. You are seeking an opportunity to put your fingerprint on building something that matters in the early phase of exponential growth. You understand how to balance the near term detailed changes while keeping the big picture in mind for future growth.

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