VP of Finance, US
About the role
At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies—one that serves a huge number of customers, enables team members to grow to their full potential, operates at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency, creates extraordinary value for shareowners, and adheres to high ethical standards. We acquire and improve digital businesses to own and operate for the long term, driving deep transformations to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance.
Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other. For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate.
This position can be performed only from the US.
Responsibilities
- Co-lead our financial strategy. Partner closely with the rest of the leadership team to shape long-term planning, capital allocation, investment decisions, and other major strategic choices with significant implications.
- Own financial planning and performance. Lead budgeting, forecasting, and business performance management.
- Oversee reporting, controls, and compliance. Ensure high-quality financial reporting, robust internal controls, US GAAP compliance, audit readiness, and appropriate governance across the organization.
- Manage liquidity and capital. Oversee treasury, cash management, financing strategy, banking relationships, and the company’s approach to debt and equity capital.
- Strengthen the economics of the business. Work closely with operating teams to improve profitability, resource allocation, cost discipline, and returns on investment.
- Build an exceptional finance organization. Develop the team, systems, and processes needed to support a large, fast-growing, increasingly complex business in the United States and beyond.
Requirements
- Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, structure your ideas sharply, resist biases, and identify and address the details that matter.
- Outstanding relevant experience. You have a strong technical foundation in accounting, finance, and tax, and are comfortable building financial models, preparing financial statements, and developing forecasts and budgets in complex environments.
- Drive. You’re extremely ambitious in everything you do—and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You feel deeply responsible for your work and hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
- Team spirit. You give generously without expectation of return, support the best idea (not just your own), are happy to get your hands dirty to help your team, and are reliable, honest, and transparent.
Benefits
- Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
- Exceptional opportunity for impact. Play a key role in shaping the future of a company with sky-high ambitions and a proven track record.
- Lead the US expansion of one of Europe’s most successful tech companies. Help guide a company valued at several billion toward even greater success.
Pay
Competitive pay and access to company equity at a discount. Typically, we offer individuals with limited experience an annual salary of $204,281 in the United States. For candidates we assess as possessing exceptional potential and highly unusual achievement, compensation typically ranges from $257,642 to $522,120. Compensation varies by location and expected impact. In higher-cost markets such as New York City, offers are generally positioned toward the upper end of the range. As you grow your expertise and increase your contributions, your compensation can grow rapidly alongside your impact.