Dust
AI / SaaS
FinanceManager-FP&A&Controlling
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“Finance Manager - FP&A & Controlling at Dust. Skills: FP&A, Controlling, Financial modeling, AI & Automation for Finance. Build the financial backbone the business needs to scale. Drive the month-end close process”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure the monthly close is clean, on time, and decision-grade; Make reporting reliable and scalable; Translate the business into trustworthy accounting inputs and financial insights; Build models that will still work at 3x the complexity
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5-7 years in Finance, clear arc from accounting-trained foundations toward FP&A and finance, exposure to both close/controlling work and forward-looking planning, financial modeling: you build from scratch, not from templates, Data-literate: comfortable with SQL or willing to learn, Architecture-minded: When you build a model, a reporting structure, or a process, you ask "will this still work at 3x the complexity?", Automation-obsessed: your default reaction to a recurring task is "how do make this run itself", Builder mentality: energized by the blank page, not intimidated by it, Communication: you can explain a P&L variance to a non-Finance person and knows what they need to see versus what stays in the model, Business enabler: You see Finance as a function that makes the business move faster and smarter, Intellectual curiosity about AI
Nice to Have
AI/SaaS company background is a plus, you understand ARR, churn, CAC, and why revenue recognition in software is not trivial, Experience in a scaling environment where processes did not exist yet and you had to build them, experienced with Data & BI tools (Metabase, Snowflake, or equivalent), you don't need to be a technologist or an engineer, but you need genuine interest
What You'll Do.
Build the financial backbone the business needs to scale
Drive the month-end close process
Partner with external accounting firms
Own the accounting-to-reporting bridge
Translate statutory P&L into management reporting
Build and enforce the chart of accounts and analytical mapping
Flag risks proactively
Design and model the integrated financial model
Build the annual budget process
Participate to the quarterly forecast cycle and business reviews
Support strategic analysis as needed
and deploy Finance agents on the Dust platform
Identify repetitive Finance workflows and redesign them with AI
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with our external accounting firms (France & US); Generate feedback loops between Finance and Product
Communication Scope
Explain a P&L variance to a non-Finance person
Full Job Description
ABOUT DUST Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it. We call them AI operators: the employees inside companies who build, deploy, and run AI agents for their teams, without waiting for someone to hand them a tool. Dust is the platform they choose to rewire how their company works. With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast. We're serving great customers https://blog.dust.tt/tag/customer-stories/ like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026. Dust is backed by Sequoia https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/dust-grabs-another-16-million-for-its-enterprise-ai-assistants-connected-to-internal-data/ with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dust-tt_were-honored-to-be-recognized-on-the-generalists-activity-7359284343929741313-Rq04. WHAT YOU'LL DO This hire is the first dedicated FP&A and Controlling resource at Dust. The mandate is to build the financial backbone the business needs to scale: from clean accounting oversight to forward-looking models, all supercharged by AI. This is not a role where you maintain someone else's work. You build it and reinvent it along the way.. The role sits across three pillars, each roughly equal in time and importance: 1. ACCOUNTING OVERSIGHT & CONTROLLING (~1/3) You are not the accountant booking the entries. But you own the quality of the numbers. - Drive the month-end close process: partner with our external accounting firms (France & US) to ensure the monthly close is clean, on time, and decision-grade, challenge entries, review accruals, ensure period accuracy - Own t
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