The FP&A Manager will lead financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for US customers, managing teams and projects to optimize financial decisions and strategies.
Who are we?
Fuel is on a mission to unlock billions of dollars in GDP by helping SMBs make better financial decisions every day. We manage over $500M in customer P&Ls through our FP&A platform, combining AI with hands-on CFO expertise to deliver enterprise-grade finance - without the enterprise price tag or complexity.
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Who are we searching for?
We’re looking for a tech-forward FP&A Manager who combines financial expertise with a strong automation mindset to cover the financial needs of our US customers. You’ll provide strategic recommendations, optimize costs, and prevent cash gaps. You’ll work closely with top management and founders of startups and will act as a finance partner to their businesses. If you’re proactive and enjoy problem-solving, we want you on our team!
What are your responsibilities?
- Prepare managerial financial reports based on raw data
- Review and correct the accountants in the preparation of financial statements
- Develop financial systems from scratch with our R&D team
- Work with multiple data sources and large volumes of data
- Identify and implement automation opportunities across financial workflows using AI tools and a modern tech stack
- Build unit economics systems with detailed operational analysis for various business models
- Develop forecasting systems with KPIs for all the departments
- Establish and manage the budgeting process to control and prevent cash gaps
- Lead direct communication with the founders and CFOs on the customer's side
- Analyze financial statements and business metrics in general
- Provide recommendations for optimizing costs, improving the financial situation, and compiling a financial strategy
- Manage projects: project strategy, deadlines, the priority of tasks, quality of projects, team workload, and task control
- Create financial models
What are the preferred requirements for the role?
- 5+ years of relevant experience in financial consulting in a fast-growing company with different business models
- C1 English level
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to distill into structured frameworks and concrete action plans
- Experience in managerial roles, managing teams and projects
- Hands-on experience with AI tools and workflow automation - you actively use them to eliminate manual work
- Expertise in the analysis of financial indicators: knowledge of the GAAP and unit economics
- Experience in managing the company’s finances: providing recommendations, implementing decisions
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, and other business processes
- Strategic thinking and the ability to independently carry out rigorous problem-solving
- Proven ability to prioritize and maintain a system for proactively managing multiple customers, projects, and requests, for creating and managing a plan, and for keeping your teams organized, too
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Proactivity and a high level of responsibility
- Ability to work according to the EST time zone
Will be a plus:
- Experience in US startups.
Reporting Structure: reporting to the Head of the FP&A Team.
Recruitment Process:
- Soft skills interview with the recruiter
- Hard skills interview with the FP&A team lead
- Test Task
- Culture fit interview with the VP of Operations
Why work with us?
- Mentorship from senior finance specialists and CFOs
- Rapid skills improvements (you'll be managing the finances of 3-5 companies with different business models and different challenges)
- Growth opportunities according to our seniority grading (it comes with a compensation increase)
- Freedom to innovate and create
- Flexible schedule and time-off policy
- 18 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leaves
Top Skills
AI
Financial Systems
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