About the Job:
👋 Hi, I’m Shane and I’m the VP of Finance & Operations at Ashby. As we’ve grown, the need for a deeply analytical, operationally grounded FP&A function has never been more important. We make decisions swiftly at Ashby, and we need someone who can ensure those decisions are grounded in rigorous financial analysis. This role will own Ashby’s financial model, the heartbeat of our financial planning infrastructure. You’ll serve as a trusted partner to leaders across the business, sitting at the intersection of finance and strategy, translating what’s happening in the business into clear financial insight and helping leaders understand the implications of the decisions they’re making. This is an ownership role, not a reporting role.
Your initial responsibilities will include
- Owning and continuously improving the company’s financial model, including all three financial statements, headcount, COGS, OpEx, and a thorough revenue model.
- Playing a significant role in Ashby’s annual planning process and ongoing forecasting cycles, partnering closely with the VP of Finance and multiple department heads to build bottoms-up plans that are realistic, rigorous, and aligned with our strategy.
- Owning ad hoc scenario modeling, helping leadership evaluate trade-offs on major decisions like hiring plans and large investments.
- Preparing and delivering monthly financial reporting packages for investors and our Board.
- Partnering with Accounting to ensure alignment between actuals and forecast, supporting a clean and timely monthly close.
You should apply if
- You have 5+ years of experience, primarily in FP&A within a high-growth tech environment. You’ve done this before. Not just FP&A, but FP&A at a company that was really moving quickly.
- You take pride in building models that balance speed, accuracy, and clarity. Clean structure, logical flow, and defensible assumptions are all important ingredients to you when building a great financial model.
- You’re fluent in SaaS metrics. You know the definitions, but more importantly, you understand how metrics like NRR, ARR, CAC Payback, and Gross Margin interact with each other and help tell the story of the business.
- You’re a natural business partner. Financial planning doesn’t live in a vacuum. You’re energized by working with leaders outside of finance, ensuring our plans are well thought out and connected to the activities in the business.
- You have strong opinions on what good looks like. Whether it’s a forecasting methodology or the definition of a metric, you have views that are rooted in principled thinking and a deep understanding of the core problem.
- You naturally operate with a long-term mindset. You’re not wired to just close out the quarter and move on. You’re already thinking about what the model needs to handle next year, where the planning process will break as the business doubles, and how to build ahead of it.
Why you shouldn’t apply
- You’re more comfortable in Excel than you are in conversation. Great FP&A professionals need to be strong communicators, not just analytical modelers. If you’d rather stay heads-down in a spreadsheet than engage directly with a business leader, you’ll struggle to be effective here.
- You need a lot of process and structure handed to you. While we have a great foundation to start from, this role requires someone who can dig into the details and create clarity quickly. If you do your best work when the playbook is already written, this environment won’t work for you.
- You rely on others to catch your mistakes. If you need someone else to review your work before it reaches a business partner or the leadership team, this role isn’t going to work for you.
- You build models for yourself, not for your peers and business partners. A great model is readable, documented, and navigable by someone who didn’t build it. If your work tends to be clever but hard for others to follow, you’ll have a hard time in an environment where your work output becomes a team asset.
Interview Plan
- 30 min with Recruiting
- 45 min Hiring Manager Interview with Shane
- Take-home Assignment
- 30 min Take-Home Debrief with Shane
- Final Round (3-3.5 hours)
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year (we encourage you to take it!)
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
- 10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
- If you’re in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with 100% of all premiums covered by us, Flexible Spending Accounts and 401K match. We also offer up to 12 weeks of fully paid family/parental leave for all caregivers.
Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We’re being deliberate about building that environment from the ground up. I hope that excites you enough to apply.
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