Financial Operations

Chai Discovery, Inc

$110K — $130K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in finance roles, preferably in startups
  • Proficient understanding of financial operating systems and reporting
  • Experience with compliance and revenue recognition, particularly in pharma contracts
  • Strong financial modeling and cash forecasting skills
  • Tech-savvy, particularly in AI and workflow optimization
  • Demonstrated ability to work in fast-paced environments with minimal supervision
  • Ability to manage complex financial situations with clarity and precision

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the financial operating system from end to end
  • Lead the monthly close process ensuring accuracy and efficiency
  • Develop and maintain financial models and cash forecasts
  • Implement reporting mechanisms to provide visibility into financials
  • Work closely with founders to streamline financial workflows
  • Ensure compliance with financial regulations and contracts
  • Collaborate across teams to identify and manage costs effectively

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI research and frontier biology
  • Collaborative culture with world-class professionals
  • Environment that fosters high velocity and ownership
  • Ability to impact the company's direction in a meaningful way
Full Job Description
About the role

We are looking for our first finance hire. Someone we can trust to own Chai's financial operating system end to end.

We are a small company with big demands and complicated books: compute acquisition for frontier AI, data spend across many partners, pharma contracts with revenue recognition and compliance obligations. We need someone to make sense of this all and help our founders focus on what matters most.

You will own the close process, build a trusted view of where our money is going, take over the financial model and cash forecast, own the machinery around all of it, and put in place a reporting cadence that gives leadership what it needs without manufacturing process.
About you

You are a financial generalist sophisticated enough to own the whole machine and hands-on enough to fix any part of it yourself. You are tech savvy and AI fluent, with a bias toward fixing workflows rather than tolerating them.

You've seen early-stage and growth-stage startups from the inside. You've worked alongside great financial minds and have your own ideas about how to do it right. You are detail-oriented, low-ego, and high agency, with a no job too big or too small mindset.
We offer

The opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology, with world-class people, on a mission that matters. We protect & promote a culture of high velocity and ownership. We compensate our team accordingly.

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