Finance Manager

1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
Project and Program Management
Open (YC W24)

Open (YC W24)

Open is an AI-powered customer support platform tailored for enterprises. It automates support inquiries across various channels, including phone, web, WhatsApp, Slack, email, and SMS. The platform is designed to deliver human-like interactions, providing empathetic responses that enhance customer satisfaction while managing complex support tasks. As a Y Combinator Winter 2024 company, Open functions as a complete communication engine. It can handle intricate L2 and L3 support tickets, proactively resolving issues and knowing when to escalate to human experts. Key features include multi-channel support, advanced AI capabilities, and operational flexibility with both fully automated and AI-assisted modes. Open integrates seamlessly with existing help desks and CRM systems, ensuring a smooth transition without disrupting current workflows.

information technology & services
11-50
Founded 2024
$8M raised

Description

  • Own the company’s financial engine, including revenue, cash, burn, runway, unit economics, and pipeline reporting.
  • Build planning, reporting, and operating cadences that help GTM, product, and operations make faster decisions.
  • Create and maintain the weekly metrics email, monthly board pack, and investor reporting materials.
  • Clean up the chart of accounts and shorten the monthly close to five business days or fewer.
  • Build and run the forecast model and financial planning process on a weekly basis.
  • Select and implement the finance stack, including accounting, billing, payments, and planning tools.
  • Diagnose and monitor unit economics such as AI cost per resolved ticket, gross margin by segment, and CAC payback by channel.
  • Lead the Series A process, including model building, narrative development, diligence, data room preparation, and term sheet review.
  • Set up multi-entity consolidation for EU and US subsidiaries and establish audit readiness ahead of the next funding round.
  • Partner with leadership on pricing, packaging, enterprise deal reviews, geographic expansion math, and M&A evaluation.

Requirements

  • Experience as a player-coach in finance, with willingness to handle hands-on spreadsheet work while building a team.
  • Strong first-principles thinking and comfort designing clean financial systems from fragmented data and processes.
  • Commercial finance experience with pricing, deal support, and contract review in addition to operational reporting.
  • Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and translate clearly between founders, executives, investors, and customer-facing teams.
  • Experience using AI tools in finance workflows, such as Claude, MCP servers, Cube, Pigment, Mosaic, custom GPTs, or agentic automations.
  • Ability to work with data from Salesforce, Stripe, accounting systems, billing platforms, and spreadsheets; SQL is a plus.
  • Proven ability to build workflows that reduce finance effort by 5–10x and to measure the impact of those changes.
  • Comfort with changing your mind based on the numbers and making decisions in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
  • Preferred: experience at a YC-backed SaaS company, ideally in infra, AI, or customer experience.
  • Preferred: multi-entity, multi-currency operating experience, especially across MENA, EU, and US.
  • Preferred: prior experience through an IPO, acquisition, or unicorn funding round on a finance team.
  • Preferred: network with top-tier Series A/B investors.
  • Preferred: familiarity with usage-based or hybrid B2B SaaS pricing models.
  • Preferred: public contributions on AI in finance through posts, talks, GitHub, or Substack.

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