VP of Finance

The role

The VP of Finance will serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive team. This person will architect a scalable finance organization and lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

What you will do

• Shape company strategy through a financial lens alongside the CEO and executive team
• Drive data-informed decision-making across Product, Engineering, GTM, People, and Operations teams
• Translate complex financial data into clear insights guiding investment, headcount, pricing, and resource allocation
• Own financial readouts to board and investors
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning
• Develop financial models supporting growth initiatives, M&A evaluation, and capital allocation
• Partner with CEO on fundraising strategy and investor diligence
• Monitor key financial metrics for sustainable scaling
• Manage treasury function, banking relationships, and working capital optimization
• Recruit and develop a top-tier finance and accounting team

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience
• Significant time in venture-backed, high-growth startups
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing finance and accounting teams
• Deep expertise in financial planning, forecasting, and growth modeling in scaling companies
• Strong understanding of AI credits-based and recurring revenue business models and unit economics
• Experience partnering with executive teams, presenting to boards and investors
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable financial systems, processes, and infrastructure
• Strong accounting foundation with expertise in revenue recognition, internal controls, and financial operations
• Highly analytical with ability to simplify complexity, influence cross-functional teams, and communicate to non-financial audiences
• Hands-on, low-ego leader

Nice to have

• Experience leading finance through Series C or later-stage fundraising
• Banking relationship management and treasury function experience
• Exposure to IPO readiness, SEC reporting, or international finance operations
• Familiarity with modern fintech solutions, data analytics platforms, and RPA/automation in finance
• CPA
• MBA

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• PTO
• parental leave
• equity
• company offsites
• continuous education
• commuter benefits
• flexible work environment

About the company

Compa is a venture-backed AI startup providing a live compensation data platform to enterprise teams. Their products are used by companies including NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, OpenAI, Moderna, Workday, Ulta, and Target.