Kodiak Robotics

Finance Manager

Kodiak Robotics$110K — $140K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related field; MBA preferred
  • 5+ years experience in finance, especially FP&A in a public company
  • Advanced Excel model building skills including functions, formulas, and pivot tables
  • Experience with ERP, BI, and analytical tools; SAP/S4 HANA preferred
  • Familiarity with hardware, product costing, and operational financials
  • Strong aptitude for managing multiple projects in a small team environment
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Play a major role in business planning and financial reporting
  • Build and maintain cash flow, capex, product cost, and revenue forecasts
  • Develop financial and operational models to influence decision-making across departments
  • Convert financial data into actionable insights through effective reporting
  • Support strategic initiatives with data-driven financial analyses
  • Streamline financial processes, leveraging automation and AI
  • Conduct ad hoc financial modeling and analyses as needed

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including equity and bonuses
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
  • Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave
  • Dog-friendly office with free catered lunch and stocked kitchen
  • Robust Wellbeing Benefits including mental health supports
  • Fidelity 401(k) and commuter benefits
  • Various incentive programs like referral bonuses
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Finance Manager who can work across the entire finance organization of a fast-paced startup and help us build the financial backbone for our business. In this role you will wear many hats, and be excited to support FP&A, investor relations, corporate development and strategy and business operations. The right person for this role has a flexible, client-service mentality and can balance careful, long-term, analytical work product with a bias for prompt, proactive action to drive progress. Key attributes for success include: strong finance and accounting fundamentals; sharp critical thinking skills; ability to rapidly produce and iterate custom, high-impact work product for executive consumption; meticulous attention to detail and accuracy; and, the courage to speak up and ask questions with tact and contextual awareness. Initially, this role is scoped to be an individual contributor, but anticipate it will evolve into a team leadership role as the company continues to grow. The position is highly visible and involves collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders. In this role, you will: • Play a key role in running and enhancing the company's FP&A processes, including monthly, quarterly, annual, and long-range planning. • Partner with various functions of the business to provide financial perspectives and guidance around commercial opportunities, corporate initiatives, and enterprise-wide investments and spending. • Create detailed financial models of various types, including forecasts of revenue streams, expenses, cash flows, component costs, capital structure, and M&A. • Produce recurring and ad-hoc analysis and reporting of performance versus plan, metrics, and KPIs, and seek opportunities to reduce variances to plan. • Assist in developing and implementing an FP&A system. • Participate in finance and accounting processes, such as quarterly close and public company reporting, and contribute to process improvement. What you'll bring: • 5+ years of experience in corporate FP&A and finance-ideally with at least 3 years at a publicly traded, fast paced, tech company. • Advanced financial and business modeling. • Skilled at analyzing complex topics, visualizing data, and delivering actionable insights. • Innate desire and inclination to learn the details of the business and track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams across the organization • Strong accounting and systems aptitude. Bonus points for: • Startup experience • Experience with financial planning tools, especially Pigment • Cost accounting aptitude and experience with SAP supply chain • Investment banking, private equity, or Big 4 background What we offer: • Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses • Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits) • MetLife Legal Services, Identity & Fraud Protection, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Accident Insurance, & Critical Illness Insurance • Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies • Our office is centrally located in Mountain View, CA • Office perks: dog-friendly, free catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and free EV charging • Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance • Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna, Calm through Kaiser, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health through Cigna, Rula (mental health navigation) • Fidelity 401(k) • Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA • Various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.) The pay range listed below reflects the base salary in our SF/Silicon Valley location, across several internal levels. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors including: work location, experience, relevant training, education, skill level and performance during interview. Total compensation at Kodiak includes base pay, equity, bonus and a competitive benefits package California Pay Range $110,000-$140,000 USD

About Kodiak Robotics

Kodiak Robotics is a startup that is developing autonomous trucks for long-haul freight transportation. The company was founded in 2018 by Don Burnette and Paz Eshel, both former employees of the self-driving truck company Otto. Kodiak's trucks use a combination of sensors, cameras, and software to navigate highways and other roads without a human driver. The company has raised $40 million in funding from investors including Battery Ventures and CRV. Kodiak is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has a testing facility in North Texas.
Learn more about Kodiak Robotics
Size
101 employees
Market Cap
$347.1 million
Industry
Net Income
-$133.1 million
Founded
2016
NASDAQ

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