Finance and Operations Manager (Remote, Santiago)

Blacksmith Agency; Santiago; Remote; CLP 88,322,000 - 127,576,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is a fully remote US digital agency with 30–40 staff, delivering websites, SEO, paid media and branding. As Finance and Operations Manager, you own finance end-to-end and the people operations that go with it, reporting directly to ownership as the senior finance lead.

You will run it autonomously. You will manage monthly closes, cash, payables/receivables, and internal controls, build revenue/margin/cash flow models, forecast variances, and drive efficiency across a

Qualifications

• You have run finance yourself and owned the close.
• Independent and driven; a self-starter who requires little handholding.
• Strong spreadsheet skills and clear written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Finance: close books with bookkeeper, manage cash, payables, receivables, and controls.
• FP&A: build revenue, margin and cash flow models and forecasts, monthly actual vs forecast.
• People operations: onboarding/offboarding for a remote team across several countries, contracts, payroll setup, access in and out.
• Provide owners with clear status updates and recommended actions for the business.]
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Skills

Finance management

FP&A

People ops

Remote team leadership

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

QuickBooks

Xero

Job description

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is a fully remote US digital agency of 30 to 40 people running websites, SEO, paid media and branding. As Finance and Operations Manager you own finance end to end, plus the people operations that go with it, reporting straight to ownership as the senior finance person. You run it on your own.

Blacksmith Agency

• Finance
• Full time
• Remote (Latin America or South Africa)

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency is a fully remote US digital agency of 30 to 40 people running websites, SEO, paid media and branding. As Finance and Operations Manager you own finance end to end, plus the people operations that go with it, reporting straight to ownership as the senior finance person. You run it on your own.

What You Will Own

• Finance: clean books with our bookkeeper, the monthly close, cash, payables, receivables and controls.
• FP&A: revenue, margin and cash flow models and forecasts, monthly actual versus forecast, unit economics and the capacity model that says when to hire.
• People operations: onboarding and offboarding for a remote team across several countries, contracts, payroll setup, access in and out.
• Plain answers for ownership on where the business stands and what to do about it.

What You Need

• You have run finance yourself: built the models, owned the close and answered to ownership for the numbers.
• Independent and driven. Nobody hands you a checklist.
• Strong Google Sheets or Excel, QuickBooks or Xero, and clear written and spoken English.
• Full time as your only job, with substantial overlap with US business hours. Services or agency finance is a plus.