AI-Driven Finance Engineer (First Finance Hire)

Skip; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Skip is seeking a highly motivated, AI-native finance builder to become our first dedicated finance hire in San Francisco. You will build a real operating system from Xero to accrual, with live modeling and AI workflows to automate repetitive tasks.

You will own cash flow, capex, inventory, and working capital, migrate us to AI-native tools, and lead Series A readiness with clean financials and investor materials.

Qualifications

• 4 to 8 years in accounting, FP&A, strategic finance, or controller roles, ideally including time at an early stage company.
• Strong accounting fundamentals; you've run a cash to accrual transition and know GAAP well enough to set policy.
• You build with AI daily and can show tools used in finance workflows.
• Comfortable with SQL, Python, and APIs; you’d wire two systems together rather than export a CSV.
• Experience with hardware, inventory, or manufacturing finance.
• Hands-on experience with debt financing—working capital lines, venture debt, or asset-based lending.
• Operator mindset with the controls and rigor of a big company without bureaucracy.
• Clear communicator who can walk an engineer through cash runway and an investor through unit economics.

Responsibilities

• Own cash flow management across complex supplier and customer payment terms, including invoicing, collections, and payables.
• Move books from cash to accrual accounting; manage capex, inventory, and fixed assets.
• Set up warranty reserves, product liability accounting, and necessary insurance coverage.
• Migrate from Xero to AI-native finance tools; enable POs, spend tracking, and approvals.
• Build workflows, scripts, and agents to automate close, reconciliations, reporting, and variance analysis.
• Own working capital strategy: inventory financing, lines, factoring, SBA loans, venture debt.
• Develop and maintain a live financial model: burn, runway, unit economics, BOM, COGS, scenarios.
• Lead Series A readiness: clean financials, board materials, investor updates, data room, due diligence.
• Partner with manufacturing and operations on terms, purchasing, and cash flow.

Skills

AI in finance

SQL

Python

APIs

GAAP knowledge

Cash flow

Forecasting

Communication

Debt financing

Education

CPA or Big 4

Tools

Rillet

Ramp

Brex

Concourse

Carta

Rippling

Job description

Skip is seeking a highly motivated, AI-native finance builder to become our first dedicated finance hire in San Francisco. You will build a real operating system from Xero to accrual, with live modeling and AI workflows to automate repetitive tasks.

You will own cash flow, capex, inventory, and working capital, migrate us to AI-native tools, and lead Series A readiness with clean financials and investor materials.