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Job Summary: The Finance and Revenue Operations Manager will oversee all financial and revenue operations activities, integrating development, sales, marketing, and customer success to drive sustainable growth. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of financial expertise, data-driven decision-making skills, and a deep understanding of operational optimization.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy and Planning
- Revenue Forecasting: Develop accurate revenue forecasts based on historical data and market trends
- Go-to-Market Strategy: Collaborate with leadership to develop and refine the go-to-market strategy
- Performance Optimization: Continuously analyze and improve the efficiency of revenue-generating processes
Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting
- Collaborate with leaders in Engineering and G&A to develop budgets, forecasts, and KPIs.
- Support decision-making with business judgment and financial insights to align resource allocation with company goals.
- Monitor monthly results, analyzing variances and identifying risks and opportunities.
- Provide financial updates and variance analyses to the executive team and Board of Directors.
Financial Modeling and Operations
- FP&A: Manage the annual budget, forecast updates, and variance analysis.
- Accounting: Oversee general ledger, AP/AR, payroll, and account reconciliation.
- Financial Reporting: Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and tax reports.
- Enhance financial models, incorporating them into a comprehensive 3-statement model (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement).
- Cash & Treasury Management: Monitor cash flow and manage liquidity.
- Cost Management: Control costs to enhance profitability
- Deliver critical insights through these models to inform investment decisions
Financial Analysis
- Lead projects focused on ROI-based resource allocation, operational efficiency, and capital initiatives.
- Create business cases to implement capital efficiency projects, adapting quickly to various tasks as part of a lean finance team.
Financial Processes
- Assist in scaling the company’s financial infrastructure as we grow, implementing scalable tools and processes
- Systems & Technology: Align finance systems with business needs, optimizing the quote-to-cash process
- Data Analytics: Maintain data accuracy and define KPIs for development, sales, marketing, and customer success
- Compensation Strategy: Develop sales compensation plans
- Strategic Planning: Support go-to-market strategy, revenue forecasting, and performance optimization
- Drive a culture of accountability through process enhancements
Corporate Development
- Participate in fundraising, corporate development, and partnership analysis, working collaboratively across teams to support growth.
About You
- Consistent Track Record of Excellence: You have an MBA and 2-4 years experience in venture capital, private equity or Investment banking
- SaaS experience: you understand subscription revenue models deeply
- Exceptional Problem-Solving & Analytical Skills: You can dive into complex issues, derive accurate insights, and make actionable recommendations.
- Outstanding Communication & Relationship-Building Skills: You convey complex analyses with clarity, whether in formal presentations or emails to stakeholders. You understand that numbers matter, but relationships are key.
- Growth Mindset: With intellectual curiosity and a drive to learn, you’re dedicated to growing professionally and personally every day.
- Bias for Action: You take accountability and ownership, work resourcefully with minimal supervision, and focus on solutions in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong Work Ethic: You balance speed and accuracy, committed to quality in every task.
- Consummate Team Player: You are humble, coachable, and collaborative, always acting in the company’s best interest.
- Advanced Data Analytics Skills: You excel in extracting, cleaning, analyzing, visualizing, and presenting data to provide insights and simplify complex information.
- Deep desire to join a dynamic and fast moving environment of a startup
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or CPA preferred
- Proven track record in financial planning, operational optimization, and cross-functional leadership
- Expertise in financial software, CRM systems, marketing automation tools, and data analytics
- Strong strategic and tactical decision-making abilities and effective presentation skills
Bonus Points:
- Experience working in a fast-growing technology company
- Experience in fundraising at a technology company
- Experience working with an Quickbooks
Compensation (US FTE)
- Competitive salary
- Great healthcare + dental + vision coverage
- Retirement plan
- Pick your own equipment. We'll set you up with whatever Apple laptop + monitor combo you want plus any software you need.
- Unlimited vacation policy. Plus we require you to take at least 2 weeks off each year. We see most employees take 4 weeks off per year. This isn't a vague policy where unlimited vacation means no vacation
About Us
Pipe17 is a venture funded software startup headquartered in Seattle, WA with a significant presence in the San Francisco Bay area.
We offer an innovative SaaS platform for ecommerce operations that automates management of order, inventory and product flows between 100+ ecommerce applications. Using Pipe17 our customers grow faster and serve their customers better all while reducing operational costs.
We are a solution business with innovative technology that is 10-100X faster than competitors. Selling both direct and through a growing network of partners, we are growing fast with many happy customers.
Pipe17 is backed by GLP Partners, a leading investor in the ecommerce logistics space. We recently raised a large round of capital to fund our growth, which you can read about here.
