Director of Finance and Operations (Remote, Salta)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is a fully remote US digital agency with 30–40 people, handling websites, SEO, paid media, and branding. As Director of Finance and Operations, you own finance end to end and people operations, reporting directly to ownership as the senior finance leader.

You run it autonomously. You will manage monthly closes, cash flow, and internal controls, create forecasting models, and oversee onboarding/offboarding for a globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Candidate has run finance themselves, built models and owned the close.
• Must be independent and driven, able to work without a checklist.
• Strong written and spoken English required.

Responsibilities

• Own finance end to end including monthly close, cash, payables and controls.
• Lead FP&A: revenue, margins, cash flow models and forecasts, unit economics.
• Oversee people operations for a remote team across several countries.

Skills

Excel/Sheets

Financial modeling

English communication

Independent worker

Tools

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.