VP Finance

About the role

We are hiring a VP of Finance to Build scalable finance systems, processes, and infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll own the numbers end to end, from month-end close to regulatory filings to the financial models that inform how the company allocates capital and prices its products.

The ideal candidate comes from a controller or senior accounting background with meaningful exposure to strategic finance—someone who's equally comfortable reviewing journal entries, building customer-level P&Ls and pricing models, and presenting financial analysis to the board.

Bastion operates under a NYDFS trust charter, which means the finance function carries specific regulatory reporting obligations— but what matters most is the foundation: technical accounting depth, controls discipline, and the judgment to operate in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Get into the details and start owning the numbers
• Immerse yourself in Bastion's financial infrastructure
• Review all active regulatory reporting obligations—understand what gets filed, when, with which regulators, and who currently prepares each submission
• Meet with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to understand the regulatory landscape that drives your reporting obligations and how the regulatory environment is expected to evolve
• Partner with the team to understand their domains, where handoffs happen, and where accounting and treasury workflows need tighter integration
• Review the current FP&A cadence: how budgets are built, how actuals are tracked against plan, what visibility leadership and department heads have into their spending, and where the gaps are
• Own the close, the controls, and the reporting rhythm
• Run the month-end close process and drive improvements: reduce cycle time, improve accuracy, eliminate manual workarounds, and establish a close calendar that the team can execute reliably every month
• Build the review and sign-off process so that regulatory submissions don't depend on a single person's institutional knowledge
• Build the FP&A rhythm the business needs: monthly budget-vs-actual reporting, department cost allocation, variance analysis, and the financial visibility that department leads and leadership currently lack
• Own the annual planning process: build the financial model, facilitate department-level budgeting, and produce the plan that connects revenue targets to headcount to burn rate to runway
• Prepare the finance function for increasing regulatory complexity: as the company's regulatory footprint expands, ensure that reporting capabilities, controls, and processes scale ahead of the requirements rather than scrambling to catch up
• Scale the function and drive strategic financial impact

Requirements

Experience in highly regulated industries (financial services in particular) is a strong bonus.

Qualifications

You need to be someone who has lived inside the details of accounting and financial reporting, and who can also zoom out to drive strategic financial planning, build FP&A capabilities, and partner with leadership on decisions that shape the business.

Skills

Technical accounting depth, controls discipline, and the judgment to operate in a regulated environment.

Benefits

Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Pay

Compensation Range: $200K - $275K

Schedule

Not specified