Strategic CFO & People Ops Leader (Remote)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC, a fully remote US digital agency, is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to own finance end to end and the people operations that go with it. You will report to ownership as the senior finance person and run it on your own.

As CFO you will oversee the monthly close, cash, payables and receivables, FP&A models, and the capacity model to guide hiring. You will manage onboarding and offboarding for a remote team across multiple countries, contracts, payroll setup, and access

Qualifications

• You have run finance yourself: built the models, owned the close and answered to ownership for the numbers.
• Independent and driven. Nobody hands you a checklist.
• Strong Google Sheets or Excel, QuickBooks or Xero, and clear written and spoken English.
• Full time as your only job, with substantial overlap with US business hours. Services or agency finance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Finance: clean books with our bookkeeper, the monthly close, cash, payables, receivables and controls.
• FP&A: revenue, margin and cash flow models and forecasts, monthly actual versus forecast, unit economics and the capacity model that says when to hire.
• People operations: onboarding and offboarding for a remote team across several countries, contracts, payroll setup, access in and out.
• Plain answers for ownership on where the business stands and what to do about it.

Skills

Finance management

FP&A

People operations

Excel/Sheets

QuickBooks/Xero

English communication

Tools

QuickBooks

Xero

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Blacksmith Agency LLC, a fully remote US digital agency, is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to own finance end to end and the people operations that go with it. You will report to ownership as the senior finance person and run it on your own.

As CFO you will oversee the monthly close, cash, payables and receivables, FP&A models, and the capacity model to guide hiring. You will manage onboarding and offboarding for a remote team across multiple countries, contracts, payroll setup, and access