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Finance Manager
Contract financials, invoicing, the revenue waterfall and reconciliation.
About the role
What this role is for.
GridStrong sells five kinds of engagement on one contracting process: studies, ISO subscriptions, forward deployed engagements, compliance programs and platform subscriptions. Each has its own billing shape: milestone, subscription, time and materials, per plant. As the company grows, its financials have to be accurate, timely and legible to the board and investors, and someone has to own the numbers end to end.
You will be that owner under the Director of Operations. You own contract financials, the invoicing tracker, the revenue waterfall, reconciliation with the books and the rest of finance and administration, and you work with every customer-facing team to make sure what we sold is what we bill.
Team: Client Success and Operations
Level: Manager
Location: Remote, United States or Canada
Works with: The Director of Operations, the CEO and Chief of Staff, the Director of Client Success and Client Success Managers, Forward Deployed Operations, the outside accountants, and procurement and accounts payable contacts at customers.
What you will do
- Own contract financials: set up every signed contract with its billing schedule, milestones and revenue recognition treatment.
- Run the invoicing tracker: issue invoices on time, chase collections, and reconcile against contracts and delivery milestones with Client Success and Forward Deployed Operations.
- Maintain the revenue waterfall and the monthly and annual forecast by engagement type and customer.
- Reconcile revenue, deferred revenue and receivables with the general ledger and the outside accountants, and close the month.
- Prepare board and investor financial reporting with the CEO and Chief of Staff.
- Run payroll, benefits administration, vendor payments and expense policy with the Director of Operations, across US and Canadian entities.
- Improve the finance tooling and automate the recurring reconciliations.
What we are looking for
- Six or more years in finance, accounting or revenue operations, including at least two at a venture-backed company.
- Hands-on with contract-based revenue recognition, invoicing and collections for services and subscriptions.
- Strong in spreadsheets and comfortable in accounting and billing systems; you build the model rather than ask for it.
- Experience closing the month and working with outside accountants and auditors.
- Precise and dependable: the numbers are right and on time.
- Clear communicator with non-finance colleagues who own the customer relationships.
Nice to have
- CPA or equivalent.
- Experience with US and Canadian payroll and benefits administration.
- Experience preparing board packages.
The first 90 days
- Every active contract is set up with its billing schedule and the invoicing tracker is current.
- The revenue waterfall is rebuilt from contracts and reconciled to the ledger.
- The first monthly close and board financial report under your ownership are delivered on time.
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