Financial Planning & Analyst Lead

Institute of Free Technology is a mission-driven tech startup studio. We take ideas from the drawing board to market with financial, technical, legal, people operations, and brand-building support at every step.

Our startups are free to focus on what they do best — building public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with the CFO to develop and implement a forward-looking FP&A function, tailored to our project portfolio and the startup studio nature of our business.
• Establish and manage a regular reporting, forecasting and scenario planning cadence that aligns with, and supports, the fast-paced and innovative nature of our business.
• Work with the CFO and other senior leaders in the organisation to develop and iterate our budgeting and capital allocation process.
• Build and maintain sophisticated, scalable financial models (with a focus on interoperability between existing and future models, both within Finance and within other teams) to support scenario planning, predictive modelling, and valuation analysis.
• Act as a trusted partner to project teams, helping them understand financial (and where relevant, non-financial) variances, identify improvement levers, and make data-driven decisions.
• Provide analytical support to both the projects and the leadership team for evaluating the profitability and strategic value of current and potential future projects within the portfolio. 

You ideally will have:

Must Haves:

• The ability to develop trusted working relationships with highly technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience creating robust, scalable financial models that reflect a deep understanding of the underlying project, and that capture (and where possible, quantify) the inherent uncertainty of early-stage projects in our industry. 
• The ability to present and communicate data (including complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders) such that they influence behaviour and help drive important decisions.
• A collaborative mindset, both with our project portfolio and other IFT stakeholders.
• Able to work effectively both remotely and asynchronously.
• Experience in, and interest in, blockchain technology.

Should Haves:

• Previous experience either setting up or substantially developing an FP&A function in an early-stage company.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, etc).
• Experience managing and developing a small team.

Bonus points if:

• Degree (or a post-graduate qualification) in a quantitative discipline (STEM, economics, finance, etc). 
• Strong Python development skills and knowledge/experience of software development workflows and tooling (e.g. Markdown, Git).
• Demonstrable experience of:
• Developing or modelling the tokenomics (or other blockchain-specific financial structures) of a web3 project.
• Valuation projects of seed-stage or other early-stage companies.
• Working for an open-source organisation.

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Hiring process: 

1. Intro call with the Talent team
2. Interview with the CFO
3. Paid task
4. Interview with Co-founder

Compensation:

The compensation range for this role is dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.