Finance Ops

Location: NY; SF Workplace: Remote TLDR: We’re looking for a hands-on Finance Ops to own day-to-day accounting and finance operations: from reviewing expenses, invoices, and receipts to financial reporting, forecasting, and cash & burn tracking.   ABOUT US White https://whitecircle.ai http://whitecircle.comCircle https://whitecircle.ai is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale. - We’ve recently raised our Series A funding round, taking our total funding to $70M. Our investors include top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others - We process over one hundred million API calls every month - We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.   YOU WILL - Own day-to-day finance and accounting operations across different entities, with a focus on the US entity and US GAAP accounting - Own the monthly financial close and ensure our reporting and financial data are accurate and up to date - Work with external accountants, tax advisors, auditors, and other finance providers where needed - Build and maintain financial reporting that gives a clear view of revenue, expenses, cash, burn, runway, and overall financial health - Own budgeting and forecasting processes, including estimating revenue, expenses, headcount, cash needs, and runway - Build and maintain financial models to support hiring, spending, pricing, fundraising, and other strategic decisions - Help design and improve accounting and finance processes as we scale - Prepare financial information and analyses for investors, fundraising processes, board materials, and due diligence - Identify opportunities to automate repetitive finance workflows and improve the quality and speed of financial reporting   YOU’LL FIT RIGHT IN IF YOU - You have hands-on experience with US GAAP accounting (must-have) - You have strong accounting fundamentals and are comfortable owning the financial close and financial reporting process - You can work independently and take ownership of the finance function without needing a large team around you - You have experience with accounting or finance in a multi-entity or group company setup A BIG PLUS - CPA qualification - Experience with international accounting - Experience with financial forecasting, budgeting, cash flow planning, and burn/runway tracking - Build lightweight dashboards and internal tools when needed to make financial analysis more accessible - Comfortable building financial models from scratch and using them to answer real business questions - Experience setting up finance and accounting processes from scratch   COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Competitive compensation package, including equity - Flexible time off - Health insurance - Mental health support, including coverage for therapy when you need it - 401(k) retirement plan - Learning and development support for courses, conferences, and opportunities to grow your skills - All the hardware, subscriptions, tools, and services you need - Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps, Saint-Tropez, and Marbella   HOW WE HIRE 1. Intro call (25 min) 2. Take-home test assignment 3. Final call with CEO & Head of Ops (45 min)