Finance Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated, AI native finance builder to be Skip's first dedicated finance hire. You will take our finance function from a Xero account and good intentions to a real operating system: accrual books, clean controls, a live financial model, and AI workflows and agents that handle the repetitive work so you can focus on the decisions that matter. This is a full time hybrid position working at the Skip office in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.

Responsibilities

Own cash flow management across complex supplier and customer payment terms, including invoicing, collections, and payables; Move books from cash to accrual accounting and bring rigor to capex, inventory, and fixed asset accounting; Set up warranty reserves, product liability accounting, and insurance coverage; Migrate off Xero onto AI native finance tools and make it easy to issue POs, track spend, and get approvals; Build workflows, scripts, and agents that automate the close, reconciliations, reporting, and variance analysis, with an audit trail behind every number; Own working capital strategy, including inventory and product financing, working capital lines, invoice factoring, SBA loans, and venture debt; Build and own the financial model, including burn, runway, unit economics, BOM costing, COGS, and scenario planning; Lead Series A readiness, including clean financials, board materials, investor updates, data room, and diligence support; Partner with manufacturing and operations on vendor terms, purchasing, and supply chain cash flow

Requirements

4 to 8 years in accounting, FP&A, strategic finance, or controller roles, ideally including time at an early stage company; Strong accounting fundamentals, including having run or overseen a cash to accrual transition and knowing GAAP well enough to set policy; Builds with AI every day, has used Claude Code, Codex, or similar to ship real tools for a finance team; Comfortable with SQL, Python, and APIs; Experience with hardware, inventory, or manufacturing finance; Hands-on experience with debt financing, whether working capital lines, venture debt, or asset based lending; Operator mindset with the controls and rigor of a big company without the bureaucracy; Clear communicator who can walk an engineer through cash runway and an investor through unit economics

Nice to have

CPA or Big 4 background; Experience supporting a priced Series A or later round; Familiarity with AI native finance tools (Rillet, Ramp, Brex, Concourse, or similar), plus Carta