Maneva

Head of Finance

Maneva

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • **Key Responsibilities **
  • **Financial Leadership & Strategy **
  • - Own Maneva’s end-to-end financial function, including budgeting, forecasting, cash management, and long-term financial planning.
  • - Develop and maintain robust financial models to support growth planning, scenario analysis, and strategic decision-making.
  • - Partner with the CEO and leadership team to evaluate business performance, unit economics, and investment priorities.
  • - Establish financial discipline and operating cadence appropriate for a rapidly scaling SaaS company.
  • **Financial Operations & Systems **
  • - Take over day-to-day financial ownership from the fractional CFO, including oversight of bookkeeping and accounting operations.
  • - Implement, optimize, and scale financial systems and processes (e.g., QuickBooks, Rippling, expense management, reporting workflows).
  • - Design and enforce financial policies, controls, and approval frameworks to support responsible growth.
  • - Collaborate closely with Business Operations to ensure alignment across planning, execution, and reporting.
  • **Reporting, KPIs & Insights **
  • - Define, track, and report on key financial and operational KPIs across the business.
  • - Produce clear, actionable financial reporting for leadership, supporting data-driven decision-making.
  • - Ensure timely, accurate visibility into burn, runway, revenue performance, and expense trends.
  • **Fundraising & Capital Readiness **
  • - Keep fundraising financials, models, and supporting materials up to date and investor-ready.
  • - Support diligence processes and investor communications as needed, including participation in relevant email threads and preparation of financial materials.
  • - Ensure the company is structurally and financially prepared for future fundraising events.
  • **Grants & Non-Dilutive Funding **
  • - Own financial management and reporting for grants and non-dilutive funding programs.
  • - Ensure compliance with grant requirements, tracking of eligible expenses, and accurate reporting.
  • **Risk, Compliance & Governance **
  • - Oversee tax, compliance, and regulatory considerations in partnership with external advisors.
  • - Ensure strong financial controls, audit readiness, and risk management practices as the company scales.

Requirements

  • **Qualifications **
  • - Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in finance leadership roles, with demonstrated success scaling a startup or high-growth SaaS company from early traction to $100M+ in revenue.
  • - Startup Scaling: Proven ability to build financial infrastructure, processes, and systems in fast-moving, resource-constrained environments.
  • - Strategic & Operational Depth: Comfortable operating at both the strategic level (models, planning, growth economics) and the operational level (systems, controls, execution).
  • - SaaS Acumen: Strong understanding of SaaS business models, revenue recognition, unit economics, and growth metrics.
  • - Systems Builder: Experience implementing and scaling finance systems and tooling from relatively lightweight setups to more robust platforms.
  • - Leadership Presence: Trusted partner to executive leadership with the judgment and credibility to influence company-wide decisions.
  • - Execution-Oriented: Highly organized, detail-oriented, and accountable, with a bias toward action and ownership.
  • - Remote Collaboration: Effective communicator able to operate seamlessly within a distributed leadership team.
Benefits
  • **Why Join Maneva?**
  • - Play a defining role in scaling a cutting-edge AI company transforming manufacturing.
  • - Join the leadership team at a pivotal inflection point in the company’s growth.
  • - Build the financial foundation that enables long-term scale, impact, and value creation.
  • - Work with a technically exceptional and mission-driven team solving real-world problems.
  • ***Important Notice: Protecting Your Personal Information***
  • *We are committed to ensuring the security and privacy of all applicants. Please be aware that our company will never ask for sensitive personal information, via email, phone call or text message. We also do not require payment from applicants for any part of the hiring process.*
  • * If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent our company and asking for such information, please do not respond. Instead, report the incident to us immediately at IT-Security@Maneva.ai.*

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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