VP of Finance

LocalStack; Málaga; A distancia; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An innovative startup is seeking a seasoned finance leader to drive their financial strategy and support their growth journey. This role involves collaborating with leadership to set and monitor key metrics, managing budgets, and developing financial analyses to support strategic initiatives. The company values empathy, ownership, openness, courage, and excellence, creating an environment where impactful work flourishes. If you have experience in VC-backed b2b SaaS ventures and a passion for empowering teams, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact.

Formación

• Experience in VC backed b2b SaaS ventures, growing from series A to C/D.
• Strategic finance leader with exposure to the US market.

Responsabilidades

• Define and drive financial strategy, partnering with leadership on metrics.
• Support founders in analyzing venture progress and decision making.

Conocimientos

Strategic Financial Leadership

Financial Literacy

Budget Management

Business Modeling

Decision Support

Descripción del empleo

We are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting-edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev&test feedback loops. We've closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.

At its core, LocalStack provides a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!

Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.

LocalStack has a large and active open-source community (57k+ stars on GitHub) with over 100k active users worldwide and 290M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.

We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectors. LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich / Switzerland, with a main engineering office in Vienna / Austria and remote team members from the US, FR, UK, CA, ES, and many more countries.

This is the right opportunity for a seasoned finance leader who has gone through the series A-D journey before, with experience in VC backed b2b SaaS ventures, exposure to the US market, and an international setup.

Requirements

What you will be working on / responsible for :

• Define, drive and own holistic financial strategy, partnering with the leadership team to set and monitor company OKRs, ARR, budget and other metrics
• Act as a valued partner to leaders by helping manage their budgets, providing business modeling and decision support
• Support founders in analyzing the progress of the venture, building predictability and confidence in decision making
• Collaborate with teams to develop financial analyses to support new strategic initiatives, product pricing decisions and company performance measurement
• Lead and develop a high performing team

Experience we expect you to bring to the role :

• Experience in a VC backed b2b SaaS venture, growing from series A to C / D
• Experience as a strategic finance leader with exposure to the US market
• Experience in an international setup
• Experience working with sub entities in Europe and the US
• Proven high financial literacy

Values we hold in LocalStack :

• Care : we create with compassion. We prioritize empathy and understanding in every interaction. By genuinely caring for our team, customers, and community, we create an environment where people thrive and impactful work flourishes.
• Ownership : we own the outcome. We take responsibility for our work and are passionate about its impact. We foster autonomy, inspire ambition, encourage ownership, and empower everyone to unlock their potential and make an impact.
• Openness : we build trust together. We build trust through open communication and honest feedback. By sharing ideas and embracing diverse perspectives, we create stronger, more connected teams that work toward shared goals.
• Courage : we dare to innovate. We embrace bold challenges and take calculated risks to move the needle. We step outside our comfort zones, experiment fearlessly, and turn setbacks into springboards for growth.
• Excellence : we chase the extraordinary. We chase excellence by pushing boundaries and delivering results that go beyond the ordinary, constantly raising the bar and striving for greatness in everything we do. Excellence is not just the outcome, it’s how we approach every task with purpose, passion, and a commitment to delivering exceptional value.