Head of Finance / CFO

Spellbrush; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Spellbrush is seeking a senior finance leader to own the money side of our anime-focused company. You will close, reconcile, and report across a US parent and a Japanese subsidiary, while managing spend controls and multi-currency revenue for upcoming mobile titles.

You will report to the CEO, ensure US and Japan compliance, and help drive strategic acquisitions. The role requires hands-on finance leadership at a startup with a flat structure and on-site presence in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Experience as finance lead at a startup.
• Finance models involving multiple entities and international teams.
• Experience with heavy infrastructure spend and vendor negotiations.
• Ability to run finance solo with minimal management and a flat organizational structure.
• Willingness to be on-site in San Francisco and travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Close, reconcile, and produce financial statements for US parent and Japanese subsidiary.
• Manage spend and controls: Ramp, expense policy, bill pay and approvals.
• Ensure compliance with US and Japan taxes, Delaware, Japanese filings, transfer pricing, and audits.
• Handle game launch finance: app store payouts, global taxes, multi-currency revenue, and live-ops reporting.
• Model contracts, capex and real estate transactions, vendor negotiations, and multi-year finance scenarios.
• Assist strategic M&A activities: diligence and closing.

Skills

Startup finance leadership

Multi-entity finance models

International teams experience

Infrastructure spend experience

Audit/compliance awareness

Job description

The Finance Role:

We're looking for a finance person to join our team and run the money side of an unusual anime company.

We train state-of-the-art anime diffusion models (like the world's leading anime model, niji・journey), and then we build anime video games using these models.

You'll report directly to the CEO and help make sure that our books add up and our contracts pencil out.

We're looking for somebody who loves anime and video games as much as we do.

What you’ll do:

• Do the books. We are looking for somebody to close, reconcile and do financial statements across a US parent and a Japanese subsidiary.

• Run spend and controls. Own Ramp, expense policy, bill pay and approvals.

• Keep us compliant in US and Japan. We need help with our US federal and state taxes, Delaware, Japanese filings, tax treaties, R&D credits, transfer pricing and audits.

• Game launch finance. App store payouts, global sales tax/VAT/JCT on digital goods, multi-currency revenue and live-ops monetization reporting for our upcoming mobile title.

• Compute economics. Help keep our combination of cloud and on-prem GPUs running through vendor negotiations, multi-year contract modeling, and even capex + realestate transactions.

• Strategic M&A. We have capital set aside for strategic acquisitions. Help us find, diligence and close them.

You might be a great fit if:

• You genuinely love anime and games.
  We're really looking for somebody who is a consumer of the media we make, because it is important to understand why people pay money for it.

• You’ve been the finance lead at a startup before.
  You've made finance models involving multiple entities, international teams, or heavy infrastructure spend.

• You hate politics and management in general.
  You're comfortable running finance solo with a fleet of agents. Our company is very flat: many of our departments are of size one, and we want more people who prefer it this way.

• You’re comfortable with in-person.
  We do require you to be on-site for most of the week in San Francisco. Our office culture is embarrassingly adorable, so we think it's not too bad.