Head of Finance

Ultra; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Ultra in New York City is seeking its first finance leader to build the finance function from the ground up. You will own financial modeling, planning, reporting, and operations, with hiring a team as we scale to support rapid growth in deployment across the country.

You’ll own the operating model, budgeting, and forecasting, and collaborate with hardware, supply chain, and executive leadership to drive informed decisions and strategic fundraising activities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, or related fields with real operating time inside a company.
• Built models, processes, and reporting from nothing.
• Advanced modeling and scenario work; fast and accurate in a spreadsheet.
• Understanding of hardware businesses: COGS, margin, inventory, and manufacturing.
• Ability to connect financial results to operational drivers and explain them concisely.
• Thrives in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the operating model: rolling 3-statement forecast, long-range plan, and annual budget.
• Build revenue and capacity forecast from deployment economics (robots, utilization, autonomy, teleoperation).
• Own unit economics per robot and per deployment and justify pricing decisions.
• Run the 13-week cash forecast and manage runway vs. hiring and hardware spend.
• Own monthly close with outside accountants, and monthly financial reviews with department leads.
• Prepare board/investor materials and lead diligence for fundraising.
• Partner with hardware/supply chain on BOM cost, vendor terms, inventory, and capex planning.
• Own financial operations: AP/AR, payroll, spend controls, treasury, insurance, and tax.
• Hire and manage the finance team as we scale.

Job description

About the Role

We're looking for our first finance leader to build the function from scratch. Ultra has robots deployed in warehouses across the country, and our operational surface area is growing quickly. You'll own financial modeling and reporting that provides a clear view of business health. This is a build-it-yourself role - you'll stand up planning, reporting, and financial operations now, and hire a team underneath you as we scale.

Location: This is a on-site role based in New York City.

What You'll Do

• Own the operating model - rolling 3-statement forecast, long-range plan, and the annual budget
• Build the revenue and capacity forecast off deployment economics: robots in the field, utilization, autonomy rates, and teleoperation
• Own unit economics per robot and per deployment, and make sure pricing decisions are grounded in them
• Run the 13-week cash forecast and manage runway against hiring and hardware spend
• Own monthly close (with our outside accountants), management reporting, and the monthly financial review with department leads
• Prepare board and investor materials, and lead diligence for our next fundraise
• Partner with hardware and supply chain on BOM cost, vendor terms, inventory, and capex planning
• Own financial operations - AP/AR, payroll, spend control, treasury, insurance, and tax
• Hire and manage the finance team as we grow

Who You Are

• 8+ years across FP&A, strategic finance, banking, PE, or consulting, with real operating time inside a company
• You've built models, processes, and reporting from nothing
• Advanced modeling and scenario work; you're fast and accurate in a spreadsheet
• You understand hardware businesses: COGS, margin structure, inventory, manufacturing, and how they behave differently from software
• You can connect a financial result back to the operational driver that caused it, and explain it in a sentence
• You thrive in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment. You don't need to be told what the top priority is

Bonus Points

• Early-stage or venture-backed startup experience, ideally through a Series A+ scale-up
• Robotics, autonomous systems, or advanced manufacturing background
• Experience with RaaS, usage-based, or other non-seat-based revenue models
• SQL, BI tools, or comfort pulling your own data instead of asking for it
• Experience standing up or migrating an ERP
• You’ve built AI/agent-assisted workflows into a finance function