Head of Finance

The role

The Head of Finance will own the finance function and run day-to-day operations including the monthly close, P&L, balance sheet, and cashflow. This person will design financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to support a sales-led growth motion. The role reports to the CEO and involves partnering with leadership to manage runway and investments.

What you will do

• Own the monthly close, P&L, balance sheet, cashflow, and ensure accurate, timely financial statements.
• Maintain strong controls and audit readiness across accounting, revenue recognition, tax, and treasury.
• Manage the day-to-day finance team and external accounting partner.
• Design and operationalize the financial operating model including processes, systems, and reporting cadences.
• Own annual planning, budgeting, and rolling forecasts.
• Build and maintain scalable, driver-based financial models.
• Drive operational discipline around spend, cash flow, and runway management.
• Partner with GTM leadership on comp plans, capacity planning, pricing guardrails, and unit economics.
• Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and exec team with data-driven recommendations.
• Deliver reporting on core SaaS metrics and support board and investor reporting.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience, including leadership roles at high-growth B2B SaaS startups or scale-ups.
• Hands-on accounting ownership including running the monthly close and owning the balance sheet and income statement.
• Experience taking a company through an audit.
• Strong command of SaaS metrics, subscription economics, financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario planning.
• Experience partnering with GTM leaders on commercial economics, comp design, and pricing.
• Proven experience partnering directly with CEOs and executive teams.
• Ability to simplify complex financial concepts and influence non-finance stakeholders.
• High ownership and sound judgment.
• Comfortable making decisions with imperfect information in a fully remote, fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• CPA
• Experience with board reporting, investor updates, or supporting a fundraise or M&A process
• Experience supporting a shift from a product- or marketing-led motion to a sales-led or enterprise GTM motion
• Healthcare, health tech, or other regulated-industry SaaS experience
• Hands-on experience implementing finance tools, e.g. an ERP/GL, billing, FP&A software, or spend management

Benefits

• Competitive pay + generous equity
• Half-day Fridays, every Friday
• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave (eligible after 6 months)
• Flexible PTO with a required 2-week minimum
• Top-tier health, dental & vision (100% covered for you, 80% for dependents)
• Intentional & engaging company offsites

About the company

Freshpaint is a privacy-first data platform that helps healthcare organizations use modern marketing and analytics tools without exposing protected health information (PHI). The company is backed by investors including Y Combinator and Intel Capital.