Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis
Wolfe, LLC
ERP
Head of Finance
AirGarage
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
ERP
About the role
- Partner closely with founders and leadership across product, operations, sales, and engineering to sharpen planning and execution.
- Own and continuously improve a driver-based, forward-looking financial model; build scenarios and translate levers into tradeoffs for leadership.
- Track and improve margins and P&Ls by location; cohort and segment by region, seasonality, property type; surface insights and partner with Operations to increase contribution margin.
- Build lightweight, reliable budget vs. actuals and KPI dashboards (cash, runway, sales productivity, marketing efficiency, portfolio performance) for daily use.
- Lead transition from QuickBooks to a scalable ERP; rationalize chart of accounts, tighten close processes, and ensure clean books.
- Own cap table and equity operations: Carta hygiene, option grants, refreshes, and board approvals.
- Maintain investor & board readiness: consistent metrics, clean data room, monthly/quarterly reporting.
- Identify large cost buckets, renegotiate vendor contracts, and standardize commercial terms.
- Partner on compensation philosophy, leveling frameworks, annual reviews, and headcount planning.
- Coordinate commercial contract review, insurance matters, and office operations; manage external counsel efficiently.
- Maintain cash forecasts, evaluate debt options, cultivate banking relationships, and plan for audits.
- Create ROI templates and decision frameworks to enable teams to stack-rank projects and weigh paybacks.
Requirements
- Built-from-scratch experience: You’ve been the first or very early finance hire at a high-growth company and have personally implemented systems, closed the books, owned the model, and taken a company through its first audits.
- Hands-on operator comfortable toggling between strategy and ground-level detail.
- Strong command of driver-based modeling, scenario analysis, and cohort economics.
- Systems & process builder: Experience moving from QuickBooks to ERP; design chart of accounts; shorten close cycles; make data trustworthy.
- Clear communicator: Ability to translate complexity into crisp narratives for executives, board, banks, and investors.
- Commercial and vendor acumen: Comfortable reviewing terms, standardizing templates, and leading vendor renegotiations.
- People partnership: Experience supporting comp design, leveling, and workforce planning.
- Bias for action: Move fast, measure results, and improve systems iteratively.
- Strongly preferred: Multi-location and/or revenue-share/transactional business exposure, hardware/inventory familiarity, prior ownership of legal/G&A functions, experience preparing for/leading first audits.
- Willingness to work long hours when needed and travel ~6 weeks per year for offsites and location launches.
