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Financial strategy and process ownership for defense tech scale-up. High-growth, transaction environment experience required. Significant equity stake, daily work with tangible real-world consequences.
Requirements
- 5+ years finance, accounting, or controlling leadership
- High-growth scale-up experience
- Consumer electronics company experience
- Overseeing hardware/software integration
- Transaction environment experience (M&A/fundraising)
- Building financial systems from scratch
- Hyper-fast-paced environment experience
- Demand for dashboards, metrics, transparency
- Strong financial modeling skills
- Strong cash management skills
- Building trusted operating models
- Leading cross-functionally without authority
- Influencing decisions through clarity, relationships, judgment
- Exceptional decision-making under pressure
- Consequential calls with incomplete information
- Owning results and earning trust
- Investor reporting experience
- Budgeting experience
- Strategic finance experience
- Fundraising readiness experience
- Passion for HIGHCAT's mission
- Motivated by financial excellence enabling others
Tasks
- Build and own financial processes and systems
- Guide major financial decisions
- Work closely with CEO and leadership
- Report and shape financial strategy
- Influence cross-functional executives
- Make decisions with incomplete information
- Build and guide finance team
- Drive monthly close process
- Coordinate annual financial statements
- Ensure financial data accuracy and audit-readiness
- Establish clear accounting processes
- Identify margin leaks in COGS and supplier costs
- Build cost transparency across products and projects
- Enable better tradeoffs in engineering, operations, and sales
- Establish pricing logic and profitability frameworks
- Build and maintain company-wide and departmental budgets
- Define and track key financial and operational KPIs
- Conduct variance analysis
- Provide financial insights for decision-making
- Own HIGHCAT's cash position and runway
- Monitor and optimize working capital
- Build future-oriented cash plans
- Implement real-time financial visibility tools
- Build financial performance dashboards
- Anticipate and solve financial bottlenecks
- Own CapEx planning end-to-end
- Evaluate investment opportunities
- Pursue public funding and strategic financing
- Strengthen fundraising readiness and strategic leverage
Work Experience
- 5 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
Benefits
Competitive Pay
- Competitive compensation package
Startup Environment
- Significant equity stake
- Decisions move fast
- Work alongside company executives
- Foundation-building experience
Purpose-Driven Work
- Daily work with tangible real-world consequences
- Opportunity to shape company strategy
Informal Culture
- High-trust, low-bureaucracy culture
- Transparent communication from leadership
Other Benefits
- Ownership is real
- Financial expertise will shape organizational DNA
Career Advancement
- Competence rewarded with increasing responsibility
- Accelerated development as a financial leader
Diverse Work
- Complexity that will stretch capabilities
- Exposure to novel technology deployment
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Financial strategy and process ownership for defense tech scale-up. High-growth, transaction environment experience required. Significant equity stake, daily work with tangible real-world consequences.
Requirements
- 5+ years finance, accounting, or controlling leadership
- High-growth scale-up experience
- Consumer electronics company experience
- Overseeing hardware/software integration
- Transaction environment experience (M&A/fundraising)
- Building financial systems from scratch
- Hyper-fast-paced environment experience
- Demand for dashboards, metrics, transparency
- Strong financial modeling skills
- Strong cash management skills
- Building trusted operating models
- Leading cross-functionally without authority
- Influencing decisions through clarity, relationships, judgment
- Exceptional decision-making under pressure
- Consequential calls with incomplete information
- Owning results and earning trust
- Investor reporting experience
- Budgeting experience
- Strategic finance experience
- Fundraising readiness experience
- Passion for HIGHCAT's mission
- Motivated by financial excellence enabling others
Tasks
- Build and own financial processes and systems
- Guide major financial decisions
- Work closely with CEO and leadership
- Report and shape financial strategy
- Influence cross-functional executives
- Make decisions with incomplete information
- Build and guide finance team
- Drive monthly close process
- Coordinate annual financial statements
- Ensure financial data accuracy and audit-readiness
- Establish clear accounting processes
- Identify margin leaks in COGS and supplier costs
- Build cost transparency across products and projects
- Enable better tradeoffs in engineering, operations, and sales
- Establish pricing logic and profitability frameworks
- Build and maintain company-wide and departmental budgets
- Define and track key financial and operational KPIs
- Conduct variance analysis
- Provide financial insights for decision-making
- Own HIGHCAT's cash position and runway
- Monitor and optimize working capital
- Build future-oriented cash plans
- Implement real-time financial visibility tools
- Build financial performance dashboards
- Anticipate and solve financial bottlenecks
- Own CapEx planning end-to-end
- Evaluate investment opportunities
- Pursue public funding and strategic financing
- Strengthen fundraising readiness and strategic leverage
Work Experience
- 5 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
Benefits
Competitive Pay
- Competitive compensation package
Startup Environment
- Significant equity stake
- Decisions move fast
- Work alongside company executives
- Foundation-building experience
Purpose-Driven Work
- Daily work with tangible real-world consequences
- Opportunity to shape company strategy
Informal Culture
- High-trust, low-bureaucracy culture
- Transparent communication from leadership
Other Benefits
- Ownership is real
- Financial expertise will shape organizational DNA
Career Advancement
- Competence rewarded with increasing responsibility
- Accelerated development as a financial leader
Diverse Work
- Complexity that will stretch capabilities
- Exposure to novel technology deployment
About the Company
HIGHCAT
Industry
Aerospace
Description
The company develops and manufactures reconnaissance UAV systems for professional users in defense and public safety.
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