Director of FP&A & Business Operations

TetraScience, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Health, dental & vision coverage

Life insurance

401k Savings

Equity Program

Job summary

TetraScience, Inc. in Boston seeks a senior FP&A leader to act as the CFO’s right hand and trusted business partner. You will own the financial model, forecast cycles, and strategic reporting, including monthly closes and board-ready analyses.

You will streamline the flow of information for the leadership team, oversee KPI reporting (ARR, ACV, NRR, CAC payback), and drive finance automation using AI tools to explain results and enable faster decisions.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of FP&A, corporate finance or equivalent experience in high-growth tech.
• CFA, CPA or MBA welcomed, not a substitute for modeling depth.
• Fluent with SaaS metrics (ARR, ACV, NRR, GRR, CAC payback, burn).
• Excellent written and verbal communication for executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the financial model end-to-end and maintain AI-assisted workflows.
• Lead monthly flash, month-end close, and variance analyses with executive reviews.
• Coordinate Plan/Actual/Variance reporting and root cause analyses.
• Drive KPI reporting (ARR, ACV, NRR, CAC payback) and pipeline visibility.
• Support global headcount planning and vendor/SaaS budgeting.
• Prepare briefing materials and act as finance partner for HR, Recruiting, IT and Marketing.
• Publish budget-versus-actual P&Ls for G&A, R&D and Delivery.
• Manage lending/investor reporting and due diligence support.

Skills

Financial modeling

SaaS metrics

Executive communication

AI tooling fluency

Strategic partnership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or quantitative field

Tools

NetSuite

Salesforce

Looker

Tableau

Sigma

SQL

Job description

• This role is the CFO’s right hand person, and a reliable business partner for the rest of the organization
• There are two aspects to the role
• The first is ownership of the TetraScience financial model, the company’s single source of truth for its annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, scenarios, headcount and cash, along with the cycles that run on it: the monthly flash, the month-end close board reporting, leadership team reporting, variance analyses, and the weekly cash forecast
• The second is managing the information flow around the leadership team: shared agendas, diving into key metrics, capturing decisions, and bringing closure to strategic initiatives along with the CFO
• Own the TetraScience financial model end-to-end. The model is internally built and operated through an AI assistant layer that needs to be maintained and augmented as needed. The FP&A Director will use the financial model to explain results and forecast the future. We are hiring the person who does that part, and who keeps automating the rest
• Run the monthly flash and month-end close process post-Accounting close
• Own the company’s Plan, Actual, Variance, Root Cause Analysis, Remediation (PAVRR) process for financial data
• Support global resource planning. Reconcile modeled headcount against actuals, and maintain and keep our employee roster, vendor, and expense detail current
• Manage the company’s financial planning cycle on a quarterly basis. Collecting input from TetraScience’s executive team and sharing variance reporting on a monthly basis
• Coordinate the agenda for the TetraScience Leadership Team (TLT) meeting, the bi-weekly extended leadership team meeting: solicit topics, build and publish the agenda and pre-reads, and circulate materials ahead of time
• Collect inputs that feed TLT metric reporting from across the business, including pipeline and ARR/ACV, hiring metrics for critical roles, delivery and customer health, functional KPIs, and normalize them into one consistent pack
• Prepare the CFO for the forums he does not run: briefing notes, the questions worth asking, and the follow-ups owed
• Act as the finance approver and partner for HR, Recruiting, IT and Marketing: requisitions, planned and incremental headcount, offer budgets, and comp, bonus and salary adjustments
• Approve and track contractor engagements and extensions
• Own the vendor, SaaS, tooling and marketing budget, covering ERP, recruiting and sourcing tools, background checks, new SaaS and AI tools, laptop and IT spend, and events, conferences and swag, including over-budget escalations
• Partner with Sales Ops on commission plan tables and calculations
• Produce and publish budget-versus-actual P&Ls for G&A, R&D and Delivery
• Weekly cash forecast and weekly pipeline snapshot
• Monthly KPI reporting: ARR and ACV, NRR and GRR, bookings coverage, CAC payback, burn multiple, ARR per FTE, turnover and time to hire
• Lender and bank reporting packages, investor reporting, and data-room and diligence support during financing processes

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• 100% Company Paid Health, Dental & Vision
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• 401k Savings
• Company Paid Disability Insurance
• Equity Program

You are the person who arrives at meetings having read everything, having noticed the two numbers that disagree, and having formed a view. You bring problems you have already worked on, with a recommendation on solutions7 to 10 years in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking or consulting, including at least 3 years inside a high-growth B2B technology businessBachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a comparable quantitative field. A CFA, CPA or MBA is welcome, and is not a substitute for the modeling bar aboveWorking command of SaaS metrics, including ARR and ACV and the difference between them, NRR and GRR, bookings coverage, CAC payback, burn multiple and magic number, and of what moves each oneClear writing. A large share of this job is the one paragraph that makes a number make sense to someone who does not work in financeExpert financial modeling in Excel or Google Sheets: three-statement, driver-based, scenario and cohort models built from scratch. You should be able to walk us through one you ownWillingness to travel as neededSound judgment with confidential material: compensation, equity, headcount plans and financingReading fluency in NetSuite or a comparable ERP, and in Salesforce. BI tooling such as Looker, Tableau or Sigma, and SQL, are useful but not requiredYou are fluent with AI tooling, and you have built things with it. You will be operating a financial model through an AI assistant and writing the workflows that make next month’s work smaller than this month’sHands-on AI fluency. You have built or materially extended a working process with Claude, ChatGPT or comparable tooling, and you can describe what you built, where it broke, and how you check its outputDemonstrated ownership of an executive or board-level operating cadence: agenda, pre-reads, decision capture, follow-throughYou have been an FP&A analyst and you were good at it. You can still build the model yourself and you want to. What has changed is that you now get asked the question before the analysis rather than after, and you are comfortable there