Finance Director

We’re growing our leadership team at Galxe! We’re looking to add a Finance Director to provide management expertise and lead day-to-day operations of all finance and accounting-related activities. As a key strategic contributor, the Finance Director will work closely with the C-levels and Executive team to develop defensible financial plans, processes and growth strategies to ensure we’re capable of achieving our long-term goals.

What does the Finance team look like?

The Finance team is responsible for managing all financial operations from accounting, to financial planning, and investor relations management. This team plays a crucial role in ensuring we remain financially robust by providing insights to make strategic company-wide decisions.

Responsibility

You will be responsible for the overall direction and control of our Finance function, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and supporting strategic decision-making.

Day-to-Day Operations

• Manage outsourced bookkeeper to ensure timely monthly and annual closing cycles.
• Develop processes and internal controls to ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax laws, and other regulatory requirements.
• Develop accounting processes and procedures around company spending (i.e. purchases, payments, expense reimbursements etc.).
• Ensure day-to-day transactions are performed in an accurate manner including but not limited to reconciling balances, payroll, and client billings.
• Work closely with product team conduct thorough revenue management
• Managing general business requirements including reviewing commercial deals, quotes and agreements.

Strategic Financial Leadership and Financial Planning & Analysis

• Provide metrics, models, and insights to support sound decision-making and business planning.
• Conduct financial analysis to identify opportunities for revenue growth, their financial viability, and impact on the business and monitor these forecasts against the actuals.
• Build and maintain a bottom-up financial model for the purposes of forecasting spend, strategic planning, and lead annual budgeting activities alongside the CEO & COO.
• Collaborate with leaders across the business to drive financial performance, cost efficiency, and revenue growth.
• Support in formalizing the company’s compensation structure including processes related to performance-based increases and sales performance/commission payout

People Management

• Coach and develop the Finance team which includes setting performance expectations and identifying when performance improvement plans are needed.
• Actively participate in talent acquisition activities. This includes identifying hiring needs and overseeing the recruitment process to attract, hire, and onboard high-quality talent.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration and communication to achieve OKRs.

Investor Relation Management

• Support the C-team in updating company valuation as necessitated by significant financial events.
• Deliver regular updates to investors and prepare deeper financial analysis with commentary on performance for quarterly meetings.

Requirements
Asia Timezone
Proficiency in Mandarin and English

• 5 years as finance leadership role, at least 2 years of web3 background
• Bachelor or Master degree in finance/accounting or related major
• Proficiency in Chinese and English
• Prior leadership and strategic finance experience. We have tremendous growth ahead of us and we’re looking for a leader with experience scaling up companies of similar size through a financial lens. You must have experience leading and executing strategy, and working with other executive teams to chart future growth.
• Functional experience, multi-departmental ability
• Relationship management. ****You have experience managing outsourced partners, presenting to the C-team, as well as partnering with department heads with varying levels of financial expertise.