Svp, Finance

Napster is seeking a creative and passionate finance professional to oversee core financial operations, contribute to fundraising efforts, and to oversee major cost centers including HR. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a fast paced environment and managing multiple workstreams concurrently, and have experience overseeing high functioning Finance & Accounting teams, as well as human resources team members.

Requirements

• Serve as a financial advisor to the CEO and executive team for strategic planning purposes
• Oversee all sides of accounting operations, including payables, receivables, payroll, and tax preparation
• Partner with the CEO and CFO to support corporate finance activities, including venture capital fundraising
• Oversee and ensure regular financial reporting (e.g. preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements), forecasts, planning, financial modeling, budgeting, financial analysis, cash management, and procurement
• Oversee development, oversight, and management of the organization’s capital plan
• Lead and manage the budgeting process
• Gather financial data for analysis and forecasting with respect to profits, trends, costs, and compliance
• Coordinate the preparation of annual, quarterly, and monthly reports
• Manage insurance coverage for the organization, including compliance
• Ensure compliance with tax laws and regulations
• Manage onboarding and offboarding of employees
• Audit and improve productivity and effectiveness of current cross team processes
• Manage and supervise all AR/AP cycles with external partners and customers - including the implementation of accounting and billing systems and controls
• Support the CEO on Equity administration and planning
• Keep careful tabs on regular transactions, investments and any business deals that affect the bottom line.
• Conduct regular audits of expenditures, assets and liabilities

Skills and Experience

• Exceptional financial skills and experience leading teams in large-scale growth companies
• Strong industry expertise and network within Web3, media, technology and consumer products and services a major plus.
• Solid cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to build consensus among teams (executive leadership, product, engineering, marketing, business development).
• Excellent strategic presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to identify strategic concerns quickly and drive internal stakeholders to a consensus
• Strong analytical skills to help evaluate and optimize business performance tying them to company OKR’s.
• Excellent contract negotiation skills, ability to manage deals independently.

Professional Qualifications:

• MBA or CPA highly desired; or demonstrated 5+ years of experience managing all financial functions of a growth stage company.
• Experience working for a music publisher or music label strongly preferred
• 12+ years of Finance and Operations experience.
• Strategy and business model development background (preferred)
• Banking, management consulting or Big 4 accounting background experience preferred.