Partner 36 Portfolio Finance Early Stage Venture
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$ 322000 - 376000
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Job Description
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic. We invest in seed to venture to growthstage technology companies across AI bio healthcare consumer crypto enterprise fintech games and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $45B in assets under management across multiple funds.
Weve established a team thatis defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the companybuilding process; we know what its like to be in the founders shoes. Weve invested in companies like Affirm Airbnb Coinbase Databricks Devoted Health Insitro Figma GitHub Instacart OpenSea Roblox Stripe and Substack. Our team is at the forefront of new technology helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.
The Role
The Portfolio Finance team helps founders and their leadership teams rapidly learn the relevant financial concepts for their stage and access the network to the best subject matter experts and peers. Additionally the team advises portfolio teams on their financial strategy best in class tools metrics reporting forecast and best practices to scale companies and financial foundations theyre built on. Through these efforts the team strives to support each portfolio company during its growth journey with their pursuit of financial discipline infrastructure and knowledge needed for each stage of growth.
The successful candidate will be responsible for creating adaptable finance frameworks and programs for our portfolio companies including operating model management budgeting finance infrastructure setup and finance team building.
The candidate will also provide counseling and create content on various startup finance topics such as cash management business metrics & modeling business strategy accounting taxes and financial strategy.
The ideal candidate will have prior experience in the finance function at earlystage startups and have grown in responsibility scope and title as the company has scaled with growth.
This role requires an inoffice presence 23 days a week in our San Francisco or Menlo Park CA office.
To join our team you should be excited to:
- Be comfortable working handson with our founders and their finance leaders to address and provide best practices guidance on their pressing issues in the strategy scaling and operations space
- Build an early stage financial best practice program through content templates models artifacts workshops recommended best technology and software tools etc to improve education and awareness these builders need for their companies
- Roll up your sleeves and dig into financial models investor reporting and boardlevel materials to provide feedback and improve reporting
- Partner crossfunctionally across the portfolio General Partners and various operating groups within a16z to address the needs of the portfolio
- Maintain relationships with the service providers for CFO office of growing startups (bookkeepers fractional CFOs insurance auditors 409a tax advisory etc) and ensure they provide the best service in the market appropriate for the company stages
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting economics or related field
- Minimum 12 years of experience in finance functions with significant experience at earlystage startups building and scaling the finance function ideally beginning as the first finance leader hired
- Ability to manage multiple priorities work toward contributing new ideas & solutions navigate situations with ambiguity and execute consistently in a dynamic environment on your own
- Direct experience in building a companys finance function and its operating model forecasts and budgets
- Direct knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and investor reporting requirements
- Experience with options RSUs 409A valuations cash management & treasury and an understanding of debt and credit facilities
- Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work crossfunctionally across the portfolio General Partners and various operational groups within a16z
- Proven ability to work independently manage competing priorities and execute with a repeatable process in a fast past environment
- Ability to context switching and adapt to evolving with the internal and portfolio company needs
- Must be low ego possess a high level of empathy and have the ability to work with diverse teams
- Experience with Consumer Internet Fintech and Games business models is a plus
The anticipated salary range for this role is between $322000 $376000 actual starting pay may vary based on a range of factors which can include experience skills and scope.
This role is eligible to participate in the a16z carry program and various discretionary bonus programs as well as benefit and perquisite plans including health dental vision disability life insurance 401K plan vacation and sick leave.
a16z culture
- We do only first class business and only in a first class way
- We take a long view of relationships because we are in the relationship business
- We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
- We are all different we recognize that and we win
- We celebrate the good times
- We do it for the team
- We play to win
At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity age marital or family status disability Veteran status and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves our portfolio companies and the World.
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Andreessen Horowitz hereby reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.
Employment Type
Full Time
