Financial Controller

Slash is a neobank for online businesses, serving over 22,000 entrepreneurs with the digital bank accounts, virtual cards and software they need to scale their businesses. Slash is looking for a Financial Controller to lead its Finance function.

As the first member of the Finance team at Slash, you’ll be expected to lead financial planning and analysis efforts, working closely as part of cross-functional teams to produce financial reports, refine bookkeeping processes and drive outcomes for Slash. Leading the Finance team, you’ll work hand in hand with executive management, sales, product and data teams to build coherent go-to-market strategies, evaluate product decisions and execute on a company-wide basis. Your expertise in financial management will help Slash manage and expand a robust sales pipeline, maintain capital efficiency across business activities and drive added value across the organization. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of success working with early-stage, preferably fintech, company finances. This experience, coupled with an entrepreneurial streak and excellent communication skills, will serve as an excellent foundation for you to join the Slash team, drive value and make an impact on our business and the customers we serve.

As a Financial Controller at Slash, you’ll be responsible for:

1. Building and maintaining GTM pipeline, preparing forecasts and sales performance tracking reports while leading OKR planning
2. Collaborating with Sales, Marketing and Product teams in delivering net new fintech product offerings
3. Delivering monthly finance reports to the executive team, liaising with stakeholders company wide to deliver in-depth insight into unit economics
4. Auditing financial statements and leading inter-company reconciliation efforts
5. Maintaining internal financial models used for sales capacity planning, fundraising and benchmarking
6. Negotiating critical SLAs with third party partners of the company
7. Delivering periodic reporting to executive management

A successful candidate will:

1. Have a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Accounting or a related field
2. Have 3+ years of accounting, investment banking, private equity and / or corporate finance experience
3. Be adept at building and maintaining complex excel models, and have familiarity using SQL or R in manipulating complex data
4. Have previous experience leading a functional role in a finance team at an early-stage company, preferably in fintech
5. Be a self-starter, ready to assume full ownership of company finance projects