Director of Finance and Operations (Remote, Buenos Aires)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC, a fully remote US digital agency of 30–40 people, seeks a Director of Finance and Operations who will own end-to-end finance and people operations, reporting directly to ownership as the senior finance leader. You will operate independently and drive strategic financial decisions.

You will manage monthly closes, cash, payables/receivables, and internal controls, while building revenue and cash-flow models, unit economics, and capacity planning to guide hiring decisions.

Qualifications

• 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 overlap with US business hours.
• Experience in services or agency finance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own finance end to end, including monthly close, cash, payables, receivables and controls.
• Lead FP&A: revenue, margins, cash flow models; compare actual vs forecast; unit economics.
• Oversee people operations: onboarding/offboarding for a remote team across multiple countries; contracts and payroll setup.
• Provide plain, ownership-level answers on business health and recommended actions.

Skills

Finance

FP&A

People operations

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 Director of Finance and Operations 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 Director of Finance and Operations 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.