Vice President Finance

OverviewGalactic Advisors is looking for someone to build a strong finance capability that enhances our ability to scale our company. The director of finance is our finance and accounting leader, helping drive critical decision-making through high-quality financial reporting and forecasting. The position owns monthly financial accounting and reporting processes, including monitoring general accounting practices, developing internal accounting controls, and leading various strategic projects.

ResponsibilitiesFinance:Orchestrate a semi-annual budget process that will become the foundation for a rolling forecast and provide the management team with regular visibility into business performance and input into ongoing planning.Work with leadership team to define a data strategy, implement a dashboard with regularly updated metrics, and ensure we’re constantly mining our customer and GTM data to identify trends and uncover actionable insights.Compare actual performance with plan and rolling forecast in order to help the management team understand why any deviations may have occurred.Build cross-functional relationships with and help drive alignment across the management team on resource and investment allocation with clear plans to achieve revenue and profitability goals.Prepare and improve monthly KPIs and financial reporting packages, board presentations, and external reporting packages for investors.Analyze revenues and expenses monthly and perform variance analysis to ensure they are recorded accurately monthly and identify any unusual monthly trends.Determine and implement the right finance/ops technology stack.

Accounting:Manage day-to-day accounting operations and month-end close process to ensure accurate and timely close of US GAAP financial statements.Responsible for oversight of general accounting activities including revenue recognition, accounts receivable & payable, general ledger, and other activities.Analyze, recommend, and implement new systems and processes to improve the efficiency, visibility, and quality of accounting and ultimately financial reporting.Work collaboratively with external auditors to successfully complete annual audits.

Requirements7+ years of relevant experience, preferably a mix of startups, FP&A, and/or accounting.Solid understanding of US GAAP and its application to private companies.Experience in a private equity or venture capital-backed company.Strong financial modeling experience building up detailed, bottom-up views of a business.Ability to balance that with a top-down perspective and sanity checking.Experience structuring (or running) a FinOps technology stack.Experience with private company M&A, fundraising, and/or debt transactions.

Compensation:$175k to $220k base, annual incentive bonus, and equity (commensurate on experience).

Benefits:Healthcare: Health, Dental, and Vision (Galactic covers all premiums)401K (with 3% employer match)Flexible schedule and paid time offPermanent, remote-only position (we reconnect in person quarterly for a strategic offsite team-building meeting, which always includes some crazy adventure!)

About Galactic:Galactic Advisors is here to assist, advise and educate Managed Service Providers (MSPs) on how to best protect their clients from cyberattacks. We provide tools and assessments to help MSPs determine just how vulnerable they and their clients are to attack, and strategies to improve and build out their cyber stacks.We’re an agile, fully-remote company, and we’re growing fast. We all want to make a difference in our company's mission to help protect a Million people.We’re looking for people who:Take Extreme Ownership: Our team owns their issues, successes, and challenges. We have grit and step up to the plate. We look for ways to say, yes – we can do that.Do It Better: We constantly look for ways to make life easier (and fun), often through process improvement, and automation.Make It Fun: If it isn’t fun, it isn’t worth doing. Even the hard stuff is fun to do if you have the right mindset and the right people around you. Doing it better and making it fun go hand in hand.Do The Right Thing: It’s much harder than sitting back or cutting corners—that is why it’s called the right thing, rather than the easy thing.