Financial Planning & Analysis Lead

Institute of Free Technology is a mission-driven tech startup studio. We take ideas from the drawing board to market with financial, technical, legal, people operations, and brand-building support at every step.

Our startups are free to focus on what they do best — building public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age.

• Work with the CFO to develop and implement a forward-looking FP&A function, tailored to our project portfolio and the startup studio nature of our business.
• Establish and manage a regular reporting, forecasting and scenario planning cadence that aligns with, and supports, the fast-paced and innovative nature of our business.
• Work with the CFO and other senior leaders in the organisation to develop and iterate our budgeting and capital allocation process.
• Build and maintain sophisticated, scalable financial models (with a focus on interoperability between existing and future models, both within Finance and within other teams) to support scenario planning, predictive modelling, and valuation analysis.
• Act as a trusted partner to project teams, helping them understand financial (and where relevant, non-financial) variances, identify improvement levers, and make data-driven decisions.
• Provide analytical support to both the projects and the leadership team for evaluating the profitability and strategic value of current and potential future projects within the portfolio.

Must Haves:

• The ability to develop trusted working relationships with highly technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience creating robust, scalable financial models that reflect a deep understanding of the underlying project, and that capture (and where possible, quantify) the inherent uncertainty of early-stage projects in our industry.
• The ability to present and communicate data (including complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders) such that they influence behaviour and help drive important decisions.
• Strong Python development skills and knowledge/experience of software development workflows and tooling (e.g. Markdown, Git).
• A collaborative mindset, both with our project portfolio and other IFT stakeholders.
• Able to work effectively both remotely and asynchronously.
• Experience in, and interest in, blockchain technology.

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Should Haves:

• Previous experience either setting up or substantially developing an FP&A function in an early-stage company.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, etc).
• Experience managing and developing a small team.

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Bonus points if:

• You have a degree (or a post-graduate qualification) in a quantitative discipline (STEM, economics, finance, etc).
• You have demonstrable experience of:some text
  • Developing or modelling the tokenomics (or other blockchain-specific financial structures) of a web3 project.
  • Valuation projects of seed-stage or other early-stage companies.
  • Working for an open-source organisation.

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[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

The compensation range for this role is dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

Hiring process:

1. Intro call with the Talent team
2. Interview with the CFO
3. Paid task
4. Interview with Co-founder

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