Finance Lead

White Circle; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Flexible time off

401(k) retirement plan

Mental health support

Learning and development support

Team off-sites

Job summary

White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. We’re a small, focused team driving production-ready solutions and ambitious growth.

We’re seeking a hands-on Finance Lead to own day-to-day accounting and finance operations, including US GAAP close, reporting, forecasting, and cash burn tracking. You’ll build models, automate workflows, and prepare materials for investors and the board.

Qualifications

• Hands-on US GAAP accounting and close ownership.
• Experience with multi-entity setups and external accountants.
• Ability to forecast, budget, and build financial models.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day accounting operations across entities.
• Manage monthly close, reporting, and financial data accuracy.
• Develop budgets, forecasts, and cash runway analysis.
• Create scalable accounting processes as the company scales.
• Prepare analyses for investors, board materials, and due diligence.
• Identify opportunities to automate finance workflows.

Skills

US GAAP accounting

Financial close

Multi-entity accounting

Forecasting & budgeting

Financial modeling

Education

CPA designation

Bachelor's in Accounting/Finance

Tools

Excel

Financial modeling tools

Job description

TLDR: We’re looking for a hands-on Finance Lead to own day-to-day accounting and finance operations: from reviewing expenses, invoices, and receipts to financial reporting, forecasting, and cash & burn tracking.

About us

White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.

• We’ve recently raised our Series A funding round, taking our total funding to $70M. Our investors include top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others

• We process over one hundred million API calls every month

• We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model

We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.

You will

• Own day-to-day finance and accounting operations across different entities, with a focus on the US entity and US GAAP accounting

• Own the monthly financial close and ensure our reporting and financial data are accurate and up to date

• Work with external accountants, tax advisors, auditors, and other finance providers where needed

• Build and maintain financial reporting that gives a clear view of revenue, expenses, cash, burn, runway, and overall financial health

• Own budgeting and forecasting processes, including estimating revenue, expenses, headcount, cash needs, and runway

• Build and maintain financial models to support hiring, spending, pricing, fundraising, and other strategic decisions

• Help design and improve accounting and finance processes as we scale

• Prepare financial information and analyses for investors, fundraising processes, board materials, and due diligence

• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive finance workflows and improve the quality and speed of financial reporting

You’ll fit right in if you

• You have hands-on experience with US GAAP accounting (must-have)

• You have strong accounting fundamentals and are comfortable owning the financial close and financial reporting process

• You can work independently and take ownership of the finance function without needing a large team around you

• You have experience with accounting or finance in a multi-entity or group company setup

A big plus

• CPA qualification

• Experience with international accounting

• Experience with financial forecasting, budgeting, cash flow planning, and burn/runway tracking

• Build lightweight dashboards and internal tools when needed to make financial analysis more accessible

• Comfortable building financial models from scratch and using them to answer real business questions

• Experience setting up finance and accounting processes from scratch

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity

• Flexible time off

• Health insurance

• Mental health support, including coverage for therapy when you need it

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Learning and development support for courses, conferences, and opportunities to grow your skills

• All the hardware, subscriptions, tools, and services you need

• Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps, Saint-Tropez, and Marbella