havocai - VP of Finance
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred. • 10+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance experience, including 5+ years of people leadership experience. • Demonstrated success leading finance within a high-growth technology or similarly complex organization. • Deep expertise in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, cash flow management, and financial modeling. • Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect financial performance to underlying operational drivers. • Exceptional ability to translate complex financial information into compelling, executive-level insights and recommendations. • Demonstrated experience building and developing high-performing finance teams. • Strong cross-functional leadership skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders across an organization. • Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities, incomplete information, and significant organizational growth. • Strong judgment, attention to detail, and commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work. • Entrepreneurial, hands-on leadership style with the willingness to move between strategic initiatives and detailed execution. • Finance leadership experience within a high-growth startup or technology company. • Experience supporting hardware or manufacturing businesses. • Experience with inventory management, cost accounting, or supply-chain-related finance. • Experience supporting SaaS or software business models. • Experience leading or supporting investor relations and capital-raising activities. • Experience implementing or scaling FP&A and financial reporting systems. • Experience introducing automation or AI into finance workflows. • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE • You become a trusted strategic partner to the CFO, executive team, and leaders across HavocAI, providing the financial insight and discipline required to make better and faster decisions. • You establish scalable planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance-management processes; strengthen financial visibility throughout the company; and build a Finance team capable of supporting HavocAI as it continues to grow. • You bring structure to ambiguity without creating unnecessary bureaucracy—maintaining the hands-on, “roll up your sleeves” mentality called for in the original role while raising the quality and sophistication of the finance function.
Responsibilities
• FINANCIAL PLANNING & STRATEGY • Own HavocAI’s financial planning processes, including annual and quarterly budgeting, long-range planning, cash flow forecasting, and monthly performance reporting. • Develop and execute financial strategies that support company objectives, including cash management, liquidity, capital allocation, and investment decisions. • Drive financial discipline, visibility, and fact-based decision-making across the organization. • Partner with executive leadership to evaluate strategic initiatives, investments, commercial opportunities, and other major business decisions. • Develop sophisticated financial models, forecasts, scenarios, and analyses to support company strategy. • Identify key financial and operational risks and opportunities and proactively develop recommendations for leadership. • FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE & BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP • Establish clear reporting around financial performance, operating metrics, and organizational KPIs. • Lead monthly and quarterly performance reviews, including analysis of actual results against plan and identification of key drivers and variances. • Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership. • Partner with leaders across the company to establish financial targets, evaluate performance, and improve accountability. • Drive dialogue across key stakeholders to establish and continuously evolve company-wide KPIs. • INVESTOR RELATIONS & CAPITAL STRATEGY • Serve as a key partner to the CFO on investor relations, with the ability to take increasing ownership of the function. • Develop financial analyses, reporting, presentations, and other materials supporting investor communications. • Anticipate investor questions regarding financial performance, forecasts, business drivers, and company strategy. • Support financing and capital planning activities as the company grows. • Manage and develop relationships with external financial partners, including lenders. • FINANCE SYSTEMS & SCALABILITY • Lead the continued development of scalable finance systems, processes, reporting, and operating rhythms. • Drive finance transformation initiatives that improve speed, accuracy, visibility, and decision-making. • Identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI within financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and internal workflows. • Partner closely with Accounting and other finance functions to ensure strong connectivity between financial reporting, planning, forecasting, and business decision-making. • TEAM LEADERSHIP • Lead and develop the Finance team while planning for the continued growth of the function. • Build scalable organizational structures, processes, and operating practices as HavocAI grows. • Hire, develop, coach, and retain high-performing finance talent. • Establish clear expectations and accountability while creating an environment of continuous learning and improvement. • Foster a culture of high performance, ownership, accuracy, collaboration, and continuous improvement aligned with HavocAI’s values.
Benefits
• $250K – $275K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Our openings span more than one career level. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • We can only hire US Citizens due to our specific industry and government contracts. • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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