Director of Financial Operations
Parasail.ai
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Mateo • California • United States
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About the role
- Own the financial modeling, analytics, and margin optimization of our GPU infrastructure business.
- Build comprehensive financial models for GPU unit economics: cost per GPU-hour, marginal cost, blended vendor rates, cost leakage, and margin by contract type.
- Model the financial impact of capacity decisions including contract mix changes, vendor shifts, utilization improvements, and pricing adjustments.
- Develop scenario analyses for vendor negotiations, new contract structures, and capacity expansion plans.
- Identify and quantify margin expansion levers: vendor renegotiation, contract rebalancing, utilization gains, and pricing optimization.
- Bridge the gap between fleet operations systems and finance team visibility—ensuring accurate and complete reporting on GPU spend and revenue.
- Build and maintain reconciliation processes between vendor invoices, internal usage tracking, and customer billing data.
- Produce monthly and quarterly reporting on supply-side cost trends, margin performance, and financial KPIs.
Requirements
- 7+ years in financial operations, FP&A, financial analytics, controllership, or FinOps roles—ideally in infrastructure, cloud, or technology companies.
- Exceptional analytical skills: this is the most critical capability. You must be a natural modeler, comfortable building complex financial frameworks from scratch.
- Expert-level Excel/Google Sheets proficiency—the kind of user who navigates entirely by keyboard shortcuts and builds sophisticated models with ease.
- SQL proficiency for querying operational databases, billing systems, and building analytical datasets.
- Extreme attention to detail and a numbers-obsessed mentality—you are the person who catches the $0.01 discrepancy others miss.
- Experience with financial reconciliation across multiple data sources, vendor invoices, and billing platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational data into clear financial insights and actionable recommendations.
- Experience supporting or leading vendor/supplier contract negotiations with financial analysis and benchmarking.
- Strong cross-functional communication; able to work effectively with engineering, product, and executive teams.
- Comfortable in fast-moving, high-stakes, high-ambiguity startup environments.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Meaningful equity
- Chance to build a function from the ground up
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelinganalyticsmargin optimizationcost per GPU-hourSQLExcelGoogle Sheetsfinancial reconciliationvendor negotiationsfinancial KPIs
Soft Skills
analytical skillsattention to detailcross-functional communicationactionable recommendationsnumbers-obsessed mentalityability to work in ambiguitynatural modelerclear financial insightsleadershipcollaboration