Head of Finance

$200k – $280k • 0.1% – 0.2%
Location: Remote (US EST)
Reports to: CEO
Contract type: Full-time (open to fractional)
Preferred timezones: Eastern Time
Collaboration hours: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time

Sniffspot is the world’s largest marketplace for private dog parks. We’re a profitable consumer subscription marketplace growing 100% year over year and targeting $10M+ net revenue this year. Our growth is entirely funded through operating cash flow.

Our business has significant financial complexity including subscriptions, deferred revenue and variable costs. Finance & accounting at Sniffspot are core to planning and decision-making.

• →Develop and maintain a deep fundamental understanding of the business to inform financial assumptions and decisions, including target customers, value proposition and growth drivers
• →Build and maintain driver-based financial models across revenue, costs, margin and cash
• →Own company cash management and forecasting; creatively and continually finding ways for us to, within risk tolerances, generate and deploy cash more effectively to grow faster
• →Lead our financial planning process with zero-based budgeting and ROI-based capital allocation, focused on aggressively increasing operating cash flow and deploying cash to highest growth activities
• →Closely partner with product, engineering, marketing, data and operations to provide a financial lens on decision-making
• →WIth the support of our outsourced accounting firm, prepare monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting - analyzing operating and financial results, distilling key insights, and assessing & acting upon current and future business opportunities & risks
• →Manage an efficient month-end close process, including accurate revenue recognition and balance sheet reconciliations
• →Own finance operations end-to-end, managing accounting, accounts payable, tax, payroll and compliance vendors
• →Lead and execute on tax strategy, including income tax, 1099-ks for hosts, and sales tax
• →Develop clear points of view on financing, capital structure and shareholder outcomes
• →Act as a close thought partner to the CEO on financial health, growth tradeoffs and risk.

• Missionary, not mercenary
• Senior finance leader (VP Finance / Head of Finance) who has owned finance end-to-end
• Exceptional financial forecasting and planning abilities
• Aggressive, creative, first-principles thinker
• Holds accuracy and honesty as our most sacred first principles
• Experience in consumer subscription and marketplace businesses
• Experience with early stage, fast-growing businesses that are funded through operating cash flow, ideally with deferred revenue and significant variable costs
• Prefer operating hands on without a significant team
• Thrives in a global, async, remote team with US East coast working hours
• Bonus: Experience with financing, debt vs equity decision-making, vendor or partner negotiations and M&A
• We are open to full-time or fractional

• A cover letter with why you are interested in applying for this role
• A resume with relevant work history