Chief Financial Officer
TLDR
Shape Jotelulu’s financial strategy for growth, leading Finance and Legal teams to ensure operational excellence and partnerships that align with business priorities.
About this role
The challenge
As Chief Financial Officer (CFO), you’ll play a key role in shaping Jotelulu’s financial strategy as we enter our next stage of growth, including our upcoming Series B fundraising. Your mission will be to build a robust financial roadmap that supports our rapid expansion across Europe and Latin America, ensuring scalability, sustainability, and strong financial performance.
You’ll lead the Finance and Legal teams, building and scaling a high-performing organization focused on efficiency, accountability, and strong governance. You’ll drive financial planning, reporting, compliance, and operational excellence, while implementing systems and processes that support a growing, international SaaS business.
Collaboration will be essential. You’ll work closely with the CEO, Executive Team, and Board, partnering with Product, Operations, and other key teams to align financial strategy with business priorities. You’ll also manage relationships with investors, auditors, and external advisors, playing a central role in fundraising, reporting, and strategic decision-making.
Requirements that are important for us
We are looking for a CFO with strong experience in SaaS or technology-driven companies, capable of leading financial strategy in a high-growth, venture-backed environment. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Relevant experience and expected outcomes:
- Extensive experience in senior finance roles within SaaS or tech companies, with a proven track record scaling businesses from Series A to Series C+.
- Leading fundraising processes (Series A–C), managing investor relations, due diligence, and capital planning.
- Strong expertise in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and unit economics.
- Experience managing finance operations, including reporting, tax strategy, compliance, and audits across multiple geographies.
- Driving pricing strategy, capital allocation, and financial planning to support international expansion.
Key skills and expected impact:
- Strong strategic mindset combined with operational execution capabilities.
- Ability to build, lead, and scale high-performing finance and legal teams.
- High level of analytical rigor with strong business intuition for decision-making.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information clearly to executives, board members, and investors.
- Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable working in fast-paced, international environments.
- High level of ownership, trust, and transparency in leadership style.
Tools
- Financial systems and ERP platforms (e.g., NetSuite, Odoo), supporting scalable financial operations.
- Analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel, Google Sheets), enabling data-driven decisions.
- Forecasting and planning tools (e.g., Adaptive Planning, Anaplan), supporting financial modeling and scenario analysis.
- Project and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Slack, Microsoft Teams), ensuring alignment across teams.
- CRM and documentation tools (e.g., Salesforce, Notion), supporting reporting, forecasting, and investor management.
Jotelulu builds a self-managed cloud infrastructure platform tailored specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises in the IT sector. By forging strategic alliances with managed service providers and IT integrators, we enhance collaborative revenue generation and provide tools that streamline IT management and automation at scale. Our focus on the Portuguese IT market sets us apart as a dedicated partner to drive growth in this niche.