Director of finance

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Description of the offer

As a Director of Finance at Karlon Group, you will play an integral role as finance lead on multiple client engagements across industries including consumer, SaaS, business services, manufacturing, and healthcare. We are looking for individuals who started their careers either in finance (investment banking) or accounting (big 4) and eventually moved into a finance and FP&A role at a growing company. We want candidates who love Excel modeling, embrace automation (including AI), and understand balance sheets. The ideal candidate is a self-proclaimed perfectionist who has a passion for working cross-functionally with internal and client teams.

You’ll work extensively with our growing finance and accounting team (we’re actually a lot of fun). You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to work with senior leaders at Karlon Group and at our clients.

What You’ll Do

• Participate in, and often lead, activities related to finance for clients, including building and maintaining models, creating, updating and distributing financial reporting outputs, and creating financial dashboards.
• Work collaboratively with internal and client accounting teams to prepare monthly financial statements and financial reporting packages for executive review.
• Work collaboratively with internal and client teams to gain a deep understanding of the story behind the numbers.
• Work collaboratively with internal and client management teams to prepare board slides and board-ready outputs.
• Serve as finance resource to clients on mission-critical projects, forecasting efforts and other requests.
• Assist in the development, implementation, and documentation of new process workflows that enable more automated modeling.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s Degree in economics, finance, accounting, math, engineering or business.
• 2+ years of top-tier investment banking experience or big 4 audit experience.
• 4+ years of operational “industry” experience in finance and FP&A. Experience at mid/late-stage startups is preferred.
• Experience across corporate finance, forecasting and budgeting. Strong accounting skills and an interest in learning more accounting.
• Expert at excel modeling. Experience with google sheets a plus.
• Ability to communicate financial topics to non-finance people.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams.
• Experience with the accounting close process (from a finance point of view).
• ERP experience (for example: Quickbooks, Fulfill.io, NetSuite, Oracle, SAP).
• PC user (sorry no Macs).

About Karlon Group
Karlon Group provides fractional finance and accounting, data analytics and investor relations support services to bootstrapped, venture-backed, and private equity owned companies at various stages of growth. We bring decades of strategic and operational finance and accounting experience, partnering with businesses across a range of industries, from consumer to SaaS to financial services. Our fractional CFO franchise prioritizes close partnership, excellence, and integrity above all in our approach to advising clients on their most critical finance and accounting challenges.

Our Commitment to You
We believe in the power of a diverse workplace. We are committed to actively recruiting and hiring people of all races, religions, colors, national origins, genders, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, ages, marital statuses, veteran statuses and disability statuses. As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate what makes each of us unique and foster an inclusive environment for all. Everybody is welcome at Karlon Group.

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