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a holistic approach when evaluating talent for our team.
Metabase is the easiest way for people to get insights from their data, from tiny startups who get up and running quickly to major corporations with tens of thousands of users. That's why people love us.
We bring data tools with the elegance and simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. We provide an opinionated open source starting point for how companies should measure, analyze and share their data, which is used by tens of thousands of companies.
About the role
Metabase is looking for a high-performer to build and manage our day-to-day financial operations. The role will offer significant exposure to the financial management of a rapidly growing company.
Metabases’ Bizops team is responsible for three main areas: managing our finances, running our customer billing and supporting our Sales team. This role will be our first hire focusing on the financial side of the team, and will cover all aspects of running our day-to-day finances. Our accounting and bookkeeping is outsourced, so the role will be a combination of project-managing our external accountants, performing in-house financial analysis and developing processes.
We’re defining how things work as we go, so we’re looking for a hybrid operations and finance skillset. We’re a small team, so you should expect to take on projects across Business Operations, including those outside of finance. Being able to solve an ambiguous problem from first principles is just as important as having a solid understanding of finance and accounting practices.
Responsibilities
- Financial analysis:
- Developing and maintaining our financial model, including revenue and cost forecasts
- Doing ad-hoc financial and operational analysis e.g. customer LTV analysis; product unit cost analysis
- Providing financial analysis required by 3rd parties (e.g. insurers, banks, payment platforms and for external valuations)
- Executing ad-hoc business operations and financial projects e.g. redefining how our enterprise renewal process should work; working with external counsel on updating our suite of customer contracts
- Working with our financial accountants, managing the month-end-close process and doing ad-hoc analysis
- Project-managing our financial audit: ensuring the smooth and accurate flow of information between our auditors and accountants
- Working with our tax accountants, providing ad-hoc analysis in support of tax submissions and making sure things stay on-track
- Getting stuck in where needed
About you
- Rock-solid financial modeling skills: you think in spreadsheets
- Ability to work through ambiguous business problems from first principles
- Roughly 5-10 years experience, including 2+ years in a fast-paced environment e.g. startup, management consultancy, investment bank, PE/VC
- MBA or other formal education in accounting and finance concepts (e.g. CPA or CFA)
- Based in the US: we are a fully-remote company, but this role will require you to work with our US-based accountants and have some familiarity with US financial norms
- Strong quantitative undergraduate degree: math / physics / engineering / computer science / finance
- Basic SQL required; python or VBA nice-to-have (we want to automate the boring stuff)
- Track record of achievement
- Low-ego attitude: no job should be too small or too large
We're a global team (50% outside the US), fully distributed (from Thailand to California), who get things done asynchronously, with plenty of uninterrupted time, supporting each other to do the best work of our careers. We offer flexibility (define your own schedule and work from wherever you want), autonomy, and an environment that fosters growth, learning, and development. We're relentlessly user-focused and believe in building long-term value, not short-term hacks. And we raised a $30M Series B to take our approach to the next level for years to come.