About the Position

Head of Finance

New York, NY / Seattle, WA

Finance & Operations /

Full-time /

On-site

About Avante

At Avante, we're transforming the way companies manage their benefits. Our AI-native benefits intelligence platform simplifies the complexity of employee benefits, providing personalized guidance for employees and strategic insights for HR and finance leaders. Based in Seattle and New York, we work 4 days a week in the office (one day remote) and serve enterprise customers like Samsung, Zscaler, and News Corp.

Responsibilities

Finance, Planning, and Capital

Own the model, planning, and the numbers: Own forecasting and planning, build FP&A, accounting, and financial systems, and provide the leadership team and Board with a clear, current read on the business at all times. Define, track, and communicate key metrics such as ARR, NRR, churn, gross margin, cash flow, and LTV/CAC.
Steward capital and own board and investor relations: Act as a steward of capital, tell the ongoing financial and strategic story, engage investor networks, and represent the finance voice at board meetings.
Stand up systems and controls: Implement the right systems, oversight, and controls to support the next phase of our growth without slowing the business down.

Strategy and Leadership

Work in sync with the CEO and CoS on operational rigor: Bring an independent point of view and lead transformative, cross-functional bets in capital deployment, resourcing, product pricing, and how we constitute and run the team.
Turn strategy into operating plans: Translate the CEO's and leadership team's priorities into financial and operating plans, budgets, and targets, then hold the business accountable to them with clear metrics and honest reporting.

Operations, Legal, and People

Run the operating backbone: Oversee short-term gaps in the organization; legal and contracts (including managing outside counsel), administration, and business operations. (Go-to-market and revenue operations sit with the CRO).

Team and Ways of Working

Use AI as a core part of how you work: As an AI company, we expect this leader to change everyone’s idea of what is possible in this job because of how they use AI to model, analyze, draft, and build their own workflows.
Build and lead the team: Decide what we hold in-house versus with external partners and contractors, and when, fractionally and full-time. Sequence the hires and develop the people who run finance and operations day to day.

Requirements

Direct experience taking a company through series Seed into growth rounds and deploying meaningful capital.
8+ years operating across functions: FP&A, FinOps, revenue or business operations, investing or diligence, or operating roles in high-growth B2B software.
A track record of influencing decisions well beyond finance, as a business partner, not just a finance operator.
A bias to build, not just to govern. Your instinct is to create and solve, not only to stabilize and control.
Experience with fundraising and investor/board relations.
High ownership, a bias toward action, and comfort operating in ambiguity.
Based in or willing to be in New York or Seattle, on-site four days a week.

Nice to Have

Experience managing finance-adjacent functions such as people operations, business operations, and legal.
Experience moving a finance or operations function from fractional or outsourced to fully in-house.
Experience carrying a company from Series A into its growth stage.
Familiarity with HR, benefits, healthcare, or HR-technology buyers and markets.
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required; MBA or CPA preferred.

Our Values

Our four values aren't aspirational. They translate into concrete operating tenets that shape how we make decisions every day.

Beat Yesterday: We act on 70% of the information rather than waiting for certainty, then adjust. For a finance leader that means giving the team a usable answer today and refining it, not perfecting a model in isolation. We own our output regardless of how we produced it: AI can get you most of the way, but everything that goes out with your name on it is yours to stand behind.
Embrace Type 2 Fun: Building a function from scratch is hard, and we find meaning in the work anyway. We assume good intent and follow up directly rather than venting in side channels. We do unscalable things today, every hand-built model and process, that become scalable advantages tomorrow.
Stay Hungry, Stay Curious: We expect everyone to be the expert on AI in their function before anyone asks them to be, and at an AI company that bar is high. Learn the product, the domain, and the rest of the business well enough to ask good questions, and teach what you figure out.
Act Like an Owner: We say the uncomfortable thing early and surface problems when they're small, not the week they become a crisis. We close the loop every time. No one at Avante should ever have to ask whether their question was seen twice.

We Offer

Competitive base salary, and meaningful early-stage equity in a role with a path to CFO.
Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

$200,000 - $250,000 a year

Avante is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re building a diverse, inclusive team and welcome candidates of all backgrounds.

Head of Finance

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