Director of Finance

Belly

(Chicago, Illinois)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Belly
Belly is the leading loyalty platform in the country. With thousands of merchants and millions of members, Belly revolutionizes traditional loyalty concepts and works with each business to design a customized, unique rewards suite their customers actually want. Using a tablet and single card or iPhone or Android app, Belly unlocks new opportunities for customer engagement and digital advocacy.
Summary
You have a strong finance background with a passion and fire for numbers, process and automation. You believe in transparency and understand the important role integrity plays in the entire Belly family, both investors and employees. You are an entrepreneur at heart and possess a strong desire to build vs. buy, create vs. copy, and seek to expand the division into a cross-functional, scalable debit and credit beast. You want to ensure the division is a strategic strength of the Company, developing automated systems and processes to measure financial performance metrics in all facets of the business.
Responsibilities
* Manage reporting relationship with BoD and Investors. * Own the tracking of key business metrics and performance across a wide range of disciplines including demand generation, direct sales channels, account management, customer service, product marketing and recruiting. * Assist with the build out of a world class FP&A function. Manage the end-to-end communication of GAAP and Tax ledger reporting, as well as SaaS financial reporting metrics. * Incorporate business metrics into a transparent budgeting & forecasting process, and improve cross-functional reporting processes and structure to improve the communication and transparency of company performance amongst business units. * Manage the accounting function, including a team performing general ledger closing process, including the accurate and timely closing of ledgers, account reconciliations, and issuance of financial statements and reports to investors. * Manage the year-end audit and tax return process through tight coordination with third-party audit and tax prep teams, providing high quality data and documentation, strong planning and management, and effective communication with external parties. * Manage underwriting and credit risk policies for the business, oversee a collections function. * Promote a discipline of continuous process improvement to seek opportunities for increased effectiveness and efficiency, and provide mentorship within the division. * Assist with accounting functions which may include revenue accounting, lease accounting, fixed asset accounting, and technical accounting research. * Provide thought leadership and executional rigor to all technical accounting questions and monitor changes in critical accounting policies and procedures that may impact the Company. * Responsible for supporting monthly budgeting and forecasting process. Monitor budget to actual variances, reports to management, and proactively makes recommendations and shares ideas on how to make Belly a fun and empowered destination for business managers.
Ideal Candidate
* 5+ years of Big4 audit experience, preferred Manager level experience * Strong understanding or willingness to learn SaaS fundamental business metrics and unit economics * Experience researching, documenting, and applying technical accounting guidance and managing a budget process * Preferred experience in assessment of revenue recognition in multiple deliverable contracts, exposure to employee stock option valuation and accounting, exposure to SEC reporting requirements * Comfort with, or willingness to learn, SQL reporting * Experience with Intacct, Zuora, Expensify and Salesforce is a plus * Strong intellectual curiosity and love of problem solving * Ability to convey complex topics in simple terms and scenario analyses * Willingness to challenge the status quo and force productive conversations amongst teams * Impeccable integrity, work ethic and commitment; positive “can-do” attitude

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