Finance Manager

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Job description

Finance Manager

Company Description

Proactive Talent is the leading power partner to the recruiting engines of the world's fastest growing companies. We're a coalition of freelance recruiting and talent brand practitioners who provide the necessary tools to tighten hiring gaps, bolster retention rates and embolden company missions, giving our clients the competitive edge needed in the ever-changing recruiting industry.

With a holistic approach, we work alongside clients to help them build a powerful recruiting engine that enables them to efficiently attract, recruit, and retain top talent. Our clients include enterprise companies like Uber/Postmates, Siemens Energy, Boston Consulting Group, Basic American Foods, and GoDaddy as well as fast-growing startups like Calendly, Discord, and Gong.io.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

We believe that with a proactive approach leveraging the right technology, process, and messaging aligned with our client's business strategy, we arm them with the tools and capabilities they need to effectively attract, hire, and retain the right culture-fit talent.

OUR VALUES

Integrity - do what's right, accountability, transparency

Purpose - love what you do, mission first, never settle

Kaizen - continuous improvement, efficiency, favor the long term

PROACTIVE TALENT CULTURE

Our culture is built around the foundational belief that our company is a community (aka the "Proactive Talent Tribe") and that no one individual is greater than the whole. We are fierce advocates for our clients but even more so our integrity and quality of our work.

Job Description

We are looking for our first Finance Manager to join our team to assist with analyzing every day financial activities and subsequently provide advice and guidance to upper management on future financial plans. The goal is to enable the company's leaders to make sound business decisions and meet the company's objectives. Responsibilities will include:

• Provide financial reports and interpret financial information to managerial staff while recommending further courses of action.
• Advise on investment activities and provide strategies that the company should take
• Maintain the financial health of the organization from budgeting to billing.
• Analyze costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company's actual performance compared to the business plans.
• Develop trends and projections for the firm's finances.
• Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities.
• Oversee operations of the finance department, set goals and objectives, and design the team and framework for these to be met.
• Manage the preparation of the company's annual budgets.
• Liaise with auditors to ensure appropriate monitoring of company finances is maintained.
• Correspond with various other departments, discussing company plans and agreeing on future paths to be taken.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of finance experience
• Experience in the financial sector with previous possible roles such as financial analyst
• Extensive understanding of financial trends both within the company and general market patterns
• Proficient user of finance software
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Able to manage, guide and lead employees to ensure appropriate financial processes are being used
• A solid understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles
• Working knowledge of all statutory legislation and regulations
• BS/MA degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics
• Professional qualification such as CFA/CPA or similar will be considered a plus

Additional Information:

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.