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Quindar, a space-tech company working on cutting-edge defense and aerospace applications, is seeking a Vice President of Finance to build and lead the financial function as the company scales. This is a hands-on leadership role reporting to the executive team, requiring equal comfort with financial modeling, departmental budget reviews, Board preparation, external audits, and financing discussions.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning & Analysis: Own the company-wide financial model, annual operating plan, forecasts, and long-range planning. Maintain accurate forecasts for revenue, expenses, cash, headcount, bookings, ARR, backlog, and key operating metrics. Build scenario models to evaluate hiring, investments, facilities, contracts, and strategic initiatives. Provide clear visibility into cash runway, burn, capital requirements, and financial impact of major decisions. Review pricing models and margin profiles. Continuously improve forecasting accuracy.
Company Metrics, Board & Investor Reporting: Own financial and operating metrics for the executive team, investors, and Board. Maintain a consistent source of truth for KPIs across bookings, ARR, revenue, gross margin, burn, headcount, pipeline, and retention. Prepare financial analysis and materials for Board meetings, investor updates, fundraising, and strategic planning. Translate financial performance into clear insights and actionable recommendations.
Budgeting & Business Partnership: Own departmental budgets and work directly with functional leaders to establish financial plans aligned with company priorities. Provide regular budget vs. actuals reporting, forecasts, and recommendations. Hold teams accountable to financial commitments while explaining resource allocation tradeoffs. Build processes enabling faster, better-informed spending and hiring decisions.
Accounting, Audit & Financial Controls: Oversee relationships with outsourced accounting, tax, and financial service providers. Lead the annual financial statement audit and manage the external audit firm. Ensure audit-ready financial records, appropriate controls, reconciliations, documentation, and accounting policies. Own the financial close process and improve timeliness and accuracy of monthly and quarterly reporting. Partner with Legal, Contracts, and Operations on revenue recognition, government contracts, cost allocation, and compliance.
Government Contract Finance: Serve as finance owner for government contracts, covering milestone-based billing and collections, cost allocation across programs, and federal contracting requirements. Build and maintain systems and controls for government contract compliance (DCAA/FAR-oriented requirements, cost accounting, incurred-cost and program reporting obligations). Partner with Legal, Contracts, and Operations on new and existing awards.
Capital Strategy & Financing: Support future equity fundraising, including financial diligence, investor materials, data rooms, modeling, and management presentations. Support debt-backed financing and other capital strategies, including lender diligence, covenant modeling, liquidity planning, and ongoing reporting. Maintain relationships with banks, lenders, auditors, insurance providers, and other financial partners. Help leadership evaluate the appropriate mix of equity, debt, and internally generated cash.
Scaling the Finance Function: Build processes, systems, reporting infrastructure, and financial controls for a rapidly growing company. Hire and develop a high-performing finance team as company complexity increases. Prepare Quindar for the financial rigor expected of a later-stage venture-backed company, government contractor, and larger enterprise.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including meaningful leadership responsibility in a high-growth company
- Experience owning FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and company-wide financial models
- Demonstrated experience leading annual financial audits and working directly with external audit firms
- Experience supporting institutional fundraising, Board reporting, and investor diligence
- Experience with debt financing, credit facilities, venture debt, or other lender-backed financing
- Strong understanding of GAAP accounting and the relationship between accounting, FP&A, and operational decision-making
- Ability to build financial infrastructure without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Strong analytical judgment and ability to turn complex financial information into clear recommendations
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and detailed levels, from Board conversations to reviewing individual budget variances
- Experience in defense contracting or another complex B2B environment is strongly preferred
ITAR Requirement: Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
