Director of Finance
About Role
As the first in-house hire in finance and accounting at Ring Concierge, the Director of Finance role requires a candidate who has the ability to provide strategic financial strategy while still rolling up their sleeves and balancing the day-to-day accounting requirements. The role is responsible for creating, implementing, and maintaining all finance and accounting related operations, as laid out below.
RC is a small company, therefore, the ideal candidate must be a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual with an entrepreneurial spirit. Who has the ability to see the long term potential of their role/function at RC due to the confidence in their ability to be an effective partner to the CEO and senior management.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and accounting policies
- Provide regular financial reports to the CEO and other stakeholders by defining internal financial performance metrics
- Create ad hoc analysis and scenario modeling to support decision-making process while evaluating various internal initiatives
- Continually analyzing the business, its trends, and potential threats and communicating them to the CEO
- Manage and control the financial inventory function
- Manage daily accounting operations, creating scalable processes to ensure all financial information is properly captured, reconciled, and documented
- Create and implement accounting policies that fit our business ensuring tight controls across the organization
- Monitor accounts payable and receivable
- Track expenses, budget, taxes, cash flow, receipts and other financial dealings of the company
- Provide and manage month-end and year-end close and timely generation of accurate financial statements; tax compliance and filings, including sales tax and state and federal income tax; and financial audits
- Maintain compliance with government agencies
- Manage and process company payroll
About You
- Current or prior experience at an e-commerce consumer goods company with extensive inventory skus
- Experience at high growth startup creating and implementing accounting procedures and practices in addition to experience with established corporate structures
- Excellent at recording data and have the ability to produce clear financial models
- Strategic thinker
- Ability to wear many hats and work across functions of the organization to create collaboration between accounting and the other functions
- Ability to notice risks to the business and articulate them to the CEO/necessary stakeholders
- Experience working with third-party accountants
- Experience in preparing financial statements & tax return reports
- A self-starter who can work autonomously without much direction or oversight
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- An accurate, detail-oriented and thoughtful approach to everything you do
- Strong written, verbal, and collaboration skills
Requirements
- 5+ years of accounting experience at a high growth e-commerce company
- Prior experience at Big 4 accounting firm is a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA license, preferred
- Strong accounting skills and GAAP knowledge
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, and QuickBooks
Details
- Full-time role located in Rochester, NY
- Office Hours: 9:30 am to 6:30 pm, with the knowledge that we have a startup culture and your day may extend past listed office hours (with the possibility of weekends during busy season, sales or events)
- Health benefits for full-time employees
*Please note: you will not be considered if you do not meet the requirements listed above*