Finance Lead

US Health Partners, LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Insurance benefits

Lunch and dinner served daily

Job summary

Austin Sensing Company is seeking a Finance Lead to own financial planning from budgets to capital allocation and daily finance operations in Austin, TX. You will work directly with the founders on budgets, projections, and fundraising decisions behind hiring and production.

The role requires building detailed financial models, understanding what drives numbers, and turning analysis into clear, strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of finance experience including investment banking, private equity, or similar analytical roles.
• Experience owning finance responsibilities inside a company with budgets, cash, or operating performance.
• Strong experience building financial models, projections, and scenario analyses, linking income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Sound judgment on spending, financing, and growth tradeoffs.
• Ability to explain financial information clearly to non-finance audiences.
• Adaptability with incomplete information and changing assumptions.
• Detail-oriented with ability to handle strategic and daily tasks.

Responsibilities

• Own the company’s financial models, budgets, projections, and cash forecasts.
• Build revenue, expense, headcount, and capex projections and model growth scenarios.
• Track spending, burn, and runway; explain variances and adjust plans.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and sales to understand product costs and margins.
• Evaluate hiring plans, equipment purchases, financing options and capital uses.
• Manage banking relationships, cash balances, and equipment financing.
• Coordinate with external accountants on monthly close, payroll, and tax filings.
• Build financial reporting for founders, board, and investors.
• Support fundraising with financial models, projections, and investor materials.
• Establish budgeting, purchasing approvals, expense management, and collections processes.

Skills

Finance leadership

Financial modeling

Projections & scenario analysis

Clear communication

Attention to detail

Job description

About Austin Sensing Company

Austin Sensing Company builds radar, acoustic, and RF sensors for defense, public safety, critical infrastructure, and autonomous systems. We design and manufacture our hardware in Austin, Texas, with a focus on making high-performance sensing reliable, affordable, and widely available.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Finance Lead to own financial planning and day-to-day finance as we grow our team and manufacturing operations. You’ll work directly with the founders on budgets, projections, capital allocation, fundraising, and the financial decisions behind hiring and production.

We’re looking for someone with a background in investment banking, private equity, or a similar analytical role, along with experience operating inside a business. You should be able to build detailed financial models, understand what’s driving the numbers, and turn that work into clear decisions. You’ll also handle the daily work, from managing cash to coordinating with our accountants.

What You’ll Do

• Own the company’s financial models, budgets, projections, and cash forecasts. Keep them current as hiring, sales, and production plans change.

• Build revenue, expense, headcount, and capital expenditure projections. Model different growth scenarios and their impact on cash needs and runway.

• Track spending, burn, and runway. Compare actual results against projections, explain the differences, and recommend adjustments.

• Work with engineering, manufacturing, and sales to understand product costs, margins, inventory needs, and customer economics.

• Evaluate hiring plans, equipment purchases, financing options, and other uses of capital.

• Manage banking relationships, cash balances, and equipment financing.

• Coordinate with external accountants on monthly close, financial statements, payroll, and tax filings. Make sure the numbers are accurate and delivered on time.

• Build financial reporting for the founders, board, and investors.

• Support fundraising with financial models, projections, investor materials, and an organized data room.

• Establish practical processes for budgeting, purchasing approvals, expense management, and collections.

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of relevant finance experience, including investment banking, private equity, or a comparable analytical role, along with experience operating inside a business.

• Experience owning finance responsibilities inside a company, with direct accountability for budgets, cash, or operating performance.

• Strong experience building financial models, operating projections, and scenario analyses, with a clear understanding of how the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement connect.

• Sound judgment about spending, financing, and the tradeoffs involved in growing a business.

• The ability to explain financial information clearly to people outside finance.

• Comfort working with incomplete information and updating your assumptions as the business changes.

• Attention to detail and a willingness to handle both strategic decisions and daily finance work.

Preferred Experience

• Experience at a hardware, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or industrial technology company.

• Familiarity with inventory accounting, working capital, capital expenditures, and product costing.

• Experience supporting venture fundraising, board reporting, or investor diligence.

• Experience building a finance function at an early-stage company.

Benefits

• 401(k)

• Insurance benefits

• Lunch and dinner served daily