Finance Associate

About poolside

In this decade, the world will create artificial intelligence that reaches human level intelligence (and beyond) by combining learning and search. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will determine who survives and wins. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research and engineering at scale. They will create powerful economic engines. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this.

poolside exists to be one of these companies - to build a world where AI will drive the majority of economically valuable work and scientific progress.

We believe that software development will be the first major capability in neural networks that reaches human-level intelligence because it's the domain where we can combine Search and Learning approaches the best.

At poolside we believe our applied research needs to culminate in products that are put in the hands of people. Today we focus on building for a developer-led increasingly AI-assisted world. We believe that current capabilities of AI lead to incredible tooling that can assist developers in their day to day work. We also believe that as we increase the capabilities of our models, we increasingly empower anyone in the world to be able to build software. We envision a future where not 100 million people can build software but 2 billion people can.

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About our team

We are a remote-first team that sits across Europe and North America and come together once a month in-person for 3 days and over longer offsites twice a year.

The people, finance and ops team is not an overhead team, we're commercially oriented and are delivering products where poolside is our customer and our team are our users.

On the front-end, we are very conscious of the UX/UI - we aim to create processes and select tools that are easy to use and will boost productivity and collaboration.

On the back-end, we are a highly knowledgeable team who prioritizes automation and builds for scalability. We will improve and update our processes, tools and materials as we grow, taking into account the team's ongoing feedback and data.

About the role

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced finance person to grow and gain 360-degree expertise by joining as the second hire in Finance. It is a high-impact role that offers first-hand exposure to the transition from startup to scaleup.

Your mission

Your mission is to make all Finance at poolside a breeze for all stakeholders - customers, employees, management, investors, etc. We are committed to building a world-class organization and you will be instrumental in setting the bar for our financial operations. You will ensure impeccable day-to-day operations and lay the groundwork for strategic initiatives. You will be a facilitator for the entire organization.

You will work primarily with Matthieu and Margarida, but also interact with People, Ops and Sales teams.

Responsibilities

• Own our financial cycles and be the gatekeeper of our financial information (Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Hire-to-Retire, Record-to-Report, Treasury)
• Be the primary driver for proposing and executing improvement opportunities and relevant initiatives (automation, new tools, process improvements)
• Coordinate with sales, operations and people teams to ensure the company runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible
• Act as the primary point of contact with certain third parties (accountants, consultants) and shadow Matthieu with others (bankers, lawyers)
• Contribute to all strategic projects related to finance and administration (entity setup, tax and compliance obligations, modeling and scenarios)
• Work closely with Matthieu on Investor Relations and FP&A (business plans, cash forecasts, actual vs. plan analysis, revenue analysis)
• Support the entire team in all finance related matters

Skills & Experience

• You have demonstrated an advanced knowledge of the finance processes and finance tools - experience with NetSuite is a plus
• You have a real desire to grow in finance but you don't mind getting your hands dirty across a broader scope (we're a young company after all!)
• You love modeling and, more importantly, presenting data through visualizations
• You are scrappy and you like to find solutions on your own
• You are a good communicator and you thrive on taking complex problems and making them simple and understandable to others
• You are diligent, rigorous, detail-oriented, you are obsessed with operational excellence
• You hate mistakes

Process

• Intro call with Matthieu, our Director of Finance
• Team-fit call with Beatriz, our Head of People
• Deep-dive interview and case study with Margarida, our VP of Operations, and Matthieu
• Meet & greet call with Eiso, our CTO & Co-Founder

Benefits

• Fully remote work & flexible hours
• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays
• Health insurance allowance for you and dependents
• Company-provided equipment
• Wellbeing, always-be-learning and home office allowances
• Frequent team get togethers
• Great diverse & inclusive people-first culture