MAVI is an AI-powered finance and accounting talent platform connecting experienced global finance professionals with high-growth US companies.
Our team has experience across companies including Lyft, Ramp, and SoftBank. We work with professionals throughout the placement process, from role alignment and interview preparation through onboarding and ongoing career development.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Accounting Manager to lead planning, forecasting, and financial performance management for a high-growth US company.
You will own the company's planning and forecasting processes, build and maintain financial models, and provide the analysis leadership needs to make decisions around growth, hiring, pricing, and spending.
You will work closely with US-based founders, CFOs, and department heads, partnering with accounting to connect financial results with the company's operating performance and future plans.
What You'll Do
- Lead the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial planning
- Build and maintain a driver-based three-statement financial model covering the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow
- Own headcount planning and the hiring plan in partnership with leadership and the People team
- Prepare monthly management reporting, including budget vs. actuals, variance analysis, and business commentary
- Define and maintain financial and operating KPIs, including SaaS metrics such as ARR, gross and net revenue retention, CAC, CAC payback, LTV, burn multiple, and Rule of 40
- Prepare board and investor reporting materials in partnership with senior leadership
- Lead scenario and sensitivity analysis across hiring, pricing, growth, and other key business assumptions
- Maintain the 13-week cash forecast and provide visibility into runway and liquidity risks
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations leaders on budgets, spending, and performance against plan
- Lead pricing, margin, unit economics, cohort, and segment profitability analysis
- Build financial business cases for significant investments, including new hires, markets, products, and vendors
- Support fundraising, investor diligence, and M&A processes with financial models, historical analysis, and data room materials
- Improve reporting and planning infrastructure through automation, data quality initiatives, and integrations between the ERP, planning tools, and reporting systems
- Work closely with accounting to reconcile management reporting with actual financial results and maintain a consistent view of company performance
- Build and maintain financial models and reporting processes that can scale with the company
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of finance experience, with significant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, or strategy consulting
- Demonstrated ability to build and manage driver-based three-statement financial models
- Experience owning a full planning cycle, including budgeting, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and executive or board reporting
- Strong understanding of US GAAP and the ability to work effectively with accounting and GAAP financial statements
- Advanced Excel and Google Sheets modeling skills
- Experience presenting financial analysis to executives and confidently defending assumptions and recommendations
- Experience working with US-based companies or US finance teams
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Ability to maintain meaningful overlap with US business hours
- SaaS or recurring-revenue experience, including ARR, NRR, deferred revenue, and cohort analysis, strongly preferred
- Experience at a venture-backed US company, particularly Seed through Series C, preferred
- Background in investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, or top-tier consulting preferred
- Experience with planning platforms such as Pigment, Abacum, Mosaic, Cube, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, or Jirav is a plus
- BI experience with Looker, Power BI, or Tableau, and the ability to work with SQL, is a plus
- Experience extracting and analyzing data from NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, or similar ERP systems is a plus
- Experience supporting a fundraise, M&A transaction, or investor diligence is a plus
- CPA, CFA, MBA, or equivalent qualification is a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, or another quantitative field
Who This Role Is For
This role is suited to a finance leader who combines strong financial modeling skills with commercial judgment.
You should be comfortable going beyond reporting variances to understand the operational drivers behind them and what they mean for the business. You can work with senior leaders across functions, challenge assumptions when needed, and turn complex financial analysis into clear recommendations.
You should also be comfortable working with both detailed financial data and high-level business strategy, while building processes and models that become more useful as the company grows.
Why Join Through MAVI
- Work with high-growth US companies building and scaling modern finance organizations
- Own the financial planning and analysis processes that leadership uses to make key decisions
- Work directly with US founders, CFOs, and senior leadership
- Build strategic finance capabilities at companies where your analysis has a direct business impact
- Develop toward future Head of Finance and Fractional CFO opportunities through MAVI
- Take on high-ownership work across planning, forecasting, strategy, and business performance
- Receive support from MAVI throughout your placement, onboarding, and ongoing engagement
- Work remotely while collaborating with experienced US-based finance teams
Work Arrangement
This is a remote role with meaningful overlap with US business hours.
Candidates should be comfortable working directly with US-based founders, finance leaders, and cross-functional teams.
