Advisable team is looking for a highly-skilled Finance and Business Ops specialist with an excellent background in finance and operations related roles, preferably in SaaS businesses. The main goal of your addition to the team is to improve our financial processes through digitization and automation as well as be on top of our accounting operations and activities.
The role is, at least at the beginning, considered a part-time one.
ABOUT US:
We are a platform that connects top-notch marketing freelancers to brands and companies. Advisable.com’s goal is to make finding &hiring a top freelancer with any skill imaginable as easy as booking an Uber.
This means providing instant recommendations of talent based on complex client queries across hundreds of specialist skills – backed by a no questions asked money-back guarantee.
We’ve made tonnes of progress towards this goal and have been growing fast, doing 7 figures in bookings since launch. Our clients include companies like Spotify, Product Hunt, Stack Overflow, BigCommerce and SAP, and a number of freelancers have earned over $100,000 from their work on Advisable. Clients love our service with an average freelancer rating of 9.33/10.
However, we’re just getting started and we recently raised $2.5m in additional funding from Frontline Ventures, FJ Labs and some of Europe’s leading angels, including the founders of Supercell and Pipedrive.
We truly curate the freelancer segment of our business and look for the best talent out there to join our platform. In December 2020 we have launched the very first freelancer community and platform, Advisable Guild, gathering only crème de la crème marketing specialists who do amazing work for our clients every day.
OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:
- Be an internal point of contact for anything related to our financial and accounting area as well as a referral to our users for finance related questions regarding their accounts and payments
- Get easily familiar with our processes and operations, especially in the Finance Operations area and taking a complete ownership of this segment, with the main goal of building a new version of our payment and billing system for 2 types of users - freelancers and clients
- Take ownership of our rather small accounting segment at the moment, including accounts receivables and sales reporting
- Provide support with complex international finance and tax related issues
- Proactively improve our processes with new suggestions and updates on existing features
- Help us build renewed product documentation and content regarding our finance oriented processes
- Be able to work cross-functionally with a wide range of teams
- As stated, the role is part-time based on our detailed insight in the fields that need to be covered with your involvement
YOU SHOULD APPLY IF:
- You have prior experience working on similar financial and business ops aspects and projects in the IT industry (preferably SaaS)
- You have excellent organizational skills and can lead a project with complete ownership of the final product
- You are a great problem solver and know how to spot opportunities within the issues and challenges you encounter
- You can provide excellent knowledge and insight into FinTech platforms and solutions that could be applicable to our needs and requirements
- You’re passionate about great products: you want to build towards an outstanding product that users love
- You want to build something with impact: you want what you build to have a significant impact on real people
- You believe in constantly striving: we’re constantly working to be better and improving every element of what we do
- You want to work with an A+ team: our team has scaled startups that have sold to Google, built beautiful products across a range of industries, managed leading accelerators, and also worked in the traditional consultancy world
- You value autonomy &responsibility: while working effectively with the team is key, we want people we can trust to be responsible for their own work
- You want to help shape our culture: we’re still a small team so every hire will help shape our culture and company as we grow
- You have a long-term outlook: we’re working towards building something significant for the long-term
Our team is based in Europe and we would ideally be looking for a candidate in GMT +/-3 zones.
If you think you might be a great fit for the role, you should do the following:
- send your CV to hello@advisable.com, with the following Subject: JOB APPLICATION: Finance and Business Ops Manager, and a brief introduction why you consider yourself a great fit for the role (video intros are welcome as well!)
Looking forward to your applications.
Best of luck!
Advisable team