Founding Strategic Finance & Operations

Petra Security

$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of experience in a quantitative, analytical role, preferably in PE or investment banking.
  • Fluency with financial statements and adeptness in building financial models from scratch.
  • Ability to move quickly while maintaining a high level of accuracy and quality.
  • Self-starter with a willingness to tackle diverse responsibilities.
  • Strong comfort with ambiguity and the ability to quickly learn new areas.
  • Good intuition for building processes and creating efficient systems.
  • Willingness to contribute to all tasks, regardless of size or scope.

Responsibilities

  • Own financial modeling and forecasting to inform decision-making.
  • Drive the development of KPIs and planning to track business progress.
  • Collaborate with accounting for accurate monthly financial closes and revenue recognition.
  • Manage legal operations including contracts and coordination with counsel.
  • Oversee compliance workstreams to maintain good standing across jurisdictions.
  • Handle IT and security operations such as device management and vendor relations.
  • Create scalable systems and playbooks to streamline operations.

Benefits

  • Base salary range: $130K-$180K
  • Equity opportunity in the company
  • Healthcare, dental, and vision insurance
  • Daily office lunch provided
  • 401K retirement plan
  • Commuting stipend
  • Discount on Equinox membership
Full Job Description
The Role

We're looking for a scrappy, quantitative generalist to own the operational backbone of the company and work shoulder to shoulder with our founders. Finance will be the center of gravity, from forecasting and budgeting to KPIs and planning, but you'll flex across legal, compliance, and broader operations as the needs arise. This is a rare seat for someone who wants exposure to how an entire company runs and the ownership to build the systems that let it run well. We need someone rigorous with numbers, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited to build structure where none exists yet.

What You'll Do
  • Own financial modeling and forecasting: build and maintain the financial model, run scenarios, and track runway and burn so we always have a clear picture and the numbers we need to make decisions
  • Drive KPIs and planning: work with teams to develop the metrics that tell us how the business is doing, run our quarterly planning process, and follow up on goals to keep the company on track
  • Partner with accounting on the monthly close, revenue recognition, and keeping our books clean and audit-ready
  • Run point on legal operations: manage contracts, coordinate with outside counsel, and keep our agreements and entity documentation organized
  • Own compliance workstreams: support SOC 2 and other frameworks, track obligations, and keep us in good standing across jurisdictions
  • Manage IT and security operations: handle device procurement and provisioning, access management, and vendor tooling
  • Build the systems and playbooks that let each of these functions scale, codifying process so nothing depends on tribal knowledge
  • Grow with the company: as Petra scales, you'll help shape which of these areas become dedicated functions and where you want to go deep


What You Bring
  • 2-5 years of experience in a quantitative, analytical role, ideally at a PE firm or investment bank
  • Fluency with financial statements and forecasting: you're comfortable building a model from scratch and defending the assumptions in it
  • Speed with accuracy: you move fast without sacrificing quality, applying judgment about where perfection is worth the time
  • Self-starter with a bias toward action: you're comfortable wearing a lot of hats and building 0-1
  • Comfort with ambiguity: you can pick up an unfamiliar area, get smart on it quickly, and build something workable
  • Good intuition for building process: you know when a playbook is needed and get excited about creating order out of chaos
  • No task too small mentality: you're happy to roll up your sleeves on whatever the business needs


Benefits and Pay:
  • Base salary range: $130K-$180K
  • Equity
  • Healthcare, dental, vision
  • Lunch in the office
  • 401K
  • Commuting stipend
  • Equinox discount


This role is in-person, here in SF.

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