TLDR: We’re looking for a hands-on Finance Lead to own day-to-day accounting and finance operations: from reviewing expenses, invoices, and receipts to financial reporting, forecasting, and cash & burn tracking.About us
White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and othersWe process over one hundred million API calls every monthWe fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary modelWe’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.You will:Own day-to-day finance and accounting operations across different entities, with a focus on the US entity and US GAAP accountingOwn the monthly financial close and ensure our reporting and financial data are accurate and up to dateWork with external accountants, tax advisors, auditors, and other finance providers where neededBuild and maintain financial reporting that gives a clear view of revenue, expenses, cash, burn, runway, and overall financial healthOwn budgeting and forecasting processes, including estimating revenue, expenses, headcount, cash needs, and runwayBuild and maintain financial models to support hiring, spending, pricing, fundraising, and other strategic decisionsHelp design and improve accounting and finance processes as we scalePrepare financial information and analyses for investors, fundraising processes, board materials, and due diligenceIdentify opportunities to automate repetitive finance workflows and improve the quality and speed of financial reportingYou’ll fit right in if you:You have hands-on experience with US GAAP accounting (must-have)You have strong accounting fundamentals and are comfortable owning the financial close and financial reporting processYou can work independently and take ownership of the finance function without needing a large team around youYou have experience with accounting or finance in a multi-entity or group company setupA big plus:CPA qualificationExperience with international accountingExperience with financial forecasting, budgeting, cash flow planning, and burn/runway trackingBuild lightweight dashboards and internal tools when needed to make financial analysis more accessibleComfortable building financial models from scratch and using them to answer real business questionsExperience setting up finance and accounting processes from scratchWhy White CircleMeaningful equity packagePaid time off in line with your local regulations, no matter where you work fromAll the hardware, tools, and services you needCovered subscriptions for AI agents and IDEsTeam off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-TropezHow we hireIntro call (25 min)Take-home test taskFinal call with CEO (45 min)Please submit your application in English
15 days ago