Chief Financial Officer

Responsibilities

• Own SerpApi’s accounting, finance, budgeting, forecasting, tax, reporting, and strategic finance functions, including management of a 3-person finance and accounting team.
• Build scalable financial systems, reporting processes, and internal controls for a profitable, growing technology company.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, cash planning, financial modeling, and performance reporting.
• Partner with the CEO and leadership team on capital allocation, pricing, margins, hiring plans, vendor spend, legal spend, and long-term strategy.
• Advise on long-term capital strategy, including continued independent growth, future private investment, debt or equity financing, strategic partnerships, M&A, and eventual public-company readiness.
• Build the financial reporting, controls, forecasting, and diligence readiness needed to keep those strategic paths available.
• Prepare clear financial materials for leadership, investors, lenders, auditors, advisors, and strategic counterparties when needed.
• Manage tax planning, tax reporting, franchise tax filings, and relationships with outside tax advisors.
• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the finance and accounting team while building clearer processes, stronger reporting, and a better operating cadence.
• Improve the finance function while preserving SerpApi’s high-trust, transparent, and low-bureaucracy culture.

Qualifications

• Experience as a CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, Head of Finance, investment banker, strategic finance leader, or capital markets professional.
• Experience with public or private investment, including investor relations, equity or debt financing, M&A, growth equity, venture capital, private capital, or IPO/public-company readiness.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, accounting operations, tax, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, and audit readiness.
• Experience in high-growth technology, SaaS, API, AI, data infrastructure, developer tools, or usage-based business models.
• Ability to turn financial data into clear recommendations for founders and operators.
• Strong judgment, high ownership, and comfort building inside a lean company.
• Willingness to do both strategic executive work and hands-on operating work.
• Clear written communication and strong async collaboration skills.

Nice to Have

• CPA, MBA, public accounting, investment banking, transaction advisory, or strategic finance background.
• Experience preparing a private company for institutional investment, M&A, audit, IPO readiness, or public-company reporting.
• Experience with finance systems, ERP implementation, SaaS metrics, usage-based revenue models, 409A valuations, equity administration, board reporting, or investor materials.
• Experience working directly with founders, technical teams, or engineering-led companies.