Finance Careers at Braintrust

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 less than 3 years:

• Gross Services Volume (GSV) grew by 50x, from $1.2M to $72M
• The number of enterprises (Clients) using Braintrust jumped 1400+%, from 63 to 895
• Job-seekers (Talent) flocked to the platform growing 22x from 2,194 to over 51,000
• 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 $250 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.

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.

Areas of Focus:

While we are looking for someone with a strong FP&A background, you also need to be comfortable in a high growth environment where you will be building FP&A from the ground up. You will build out a function that enables us to understand our current and future financial situation as well as be a strategic thought partner to the leadership team. You will be responsible for understanding, monitoring and enhancing our processes and systems to ensure the financial health of our network.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, build and roll out departmental and company FP&A activities that will include: financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting/ expense management, headcount planning, and mid/long term financial pro-formas
• Partner with and drive critical financial insights alongside our executive, business and product teams to influence decisions that can drive and scale us towards a highly profitable company
• Develop a robust reporting process to ensure accurate month-end close with accounting and to provide actionable insights to leadership across the organization in a timely manner
• Monitor and manage all aspects of the company's cash flow
• Partner with the data team (once in place) to identify critical business levers and to improve forecasting accuracy
• Identify opportunities and solutions to improve finance team our processes including new tools and systems
• Provide cost/benefit comparisons and assist with decision making related to growth, capital structure, and new products expansion
• Support fundraising (debt and token sale) efforts + corporate finance strategy (M&A and investments) by managing due diligence processes, communications, and preparation of materials
  
  

Our Requirements

• 10+ years experience in FP&A or strategic finance roles - investment banking, investing (VC or PE) accounting and / or marketplace experience are a plus
• Extensive experience conducting quantitative/ financial analysis and developing recommendations based on this analysis
• Experience in taking FP&A from 0 to 1 building up systems, processes, etc from scratch
• A deep understanding of financial principles including US GAAP, best practices, and marketplace business levers/KPIs
• Business partnership experience at the executive level and the ability to collaborate cross functional to summarize information and effectively communicate to both financial and non-financial audiences.
• Experience navigating through ambiguity of blue-sky thinking and undefined financial data problems.
• An excellent knowledge of data analysis and forecasting methods.
• Familiar with accounts receivable and payables
• 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