Vice President of Finance

Job Description: Vice President of Finance
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Reports To: CEO
Team: Senior Leadership Team

About Rhythm

Rhythm is a fast-growing SaaS company serving member-based organizations and associations. Our platform helps customers manage events, memberships, and payments in one unified system. We’re scaling quickly, navigating meaningful financial complexity, and making high-leverage decisions around growth, capital, and new lines of business.

To support this next phase, we’re hiring our first Vice President of Finance — a senior, hands-on finance leader who will serve as both the architect and operator of our financial function.

The Opportunity

This is a foundational leadership role.

As VP of Finance, you will own Rhythm’s financial engine end-to-end — from day-one execution (models, cash, bookkeeping oversight) to strategic partnership with the CEO and leadership team. This is not a “manage what exists” role. You will build, shape, and continuously evolve our financial systems, models, and decision frameworks as the company scales.

You’ll be deeply embedded in the business: sitting in leadership meetings, pressure-testing assumptions, helping evaluate new opportunities, and translating strategy into numbers in real time. You will own the financial narrative internally and externally, including board-level reporting and investor communication.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to operate as a true thought partner to the CEO and grow into a CFO over time.

What You’ll Own

Financial Strategy & Leadership

• Serve as the CEO’s primary financial thought partner, helping shape company strategy, capital decisions, and long-term planning.
• Architect financial decision frameworks that clarify tradeoffs, risks, and upside across pricing, hiring, upsells, and new product or revenue initiatives.
• Actively challenge assumptions and proposals with data-driven analysis and clear financial reasoning.

Financial Modeling & FP&A

• Own and continuously evolve the company’s core financial model — revenue, cash flow, scenario planning, and sensitivity analysis.
• Build models that support real-time decision-making, not just reporting.
• Lead annual and quarterly planning processes, translating strategy into actionable financial plans.

Cash Flow, Capital & Risk Management

• Own cash management, runway forecasting, and liquidity planning.
• Provide proactive recommendations on financing strategies, capital structure, and risk mitigation.
• Monitor second-order impacts of strategic decisions on solvency and flexibility.

Accounting & Financial Operations

• Oversee bookkeeping, AR/AP, payroll, and general ledger processes (initially hands-on, with a path to outsourcing and scale).
• Ensure accurate, timely financial reporting and strong internal controls as the company grows.
• Manage relationships with external accounting, payroll, and finance vendors.

Payments & Revenue Operations

• Oversee payment revenue tracking, reconciliation, and forecasting.
• Manage relationships with payment processors and ensure precision in payments-based revenue reporting.

Board & Stakeholder Reporting

• Own preparation and presentation of monthly and quarterly financial reporting for the board.
• Clearly communicate financial performance, outlook, risks, and key decisions with confidence and credibility.
• Support investor, lender, and strategic partner conversations as needed.

Organizational Scale

• Build the foundation for a scalable finance organization, including systems, processes, and future hires.
• Help define when and how to evolve the finance function as the company grows.

What You Bring

• 7–12+ years of progressive experience in finance, FP&A, accounting, or strategic finance, ideally within a SaaS or recurring-revenue business.
• Proven experience owning financial models and using them to drive real business decisions.
• Comfort operating across strategy and execution — willing to dive into the details while maintaining a big-picture view.
• Strong understanding of cash flow dynamics, capital planning, and risk management in growing companies.
• Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to non-financial leaders and board members.
• High judgment, intellectual honesty, and the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Experience working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where systems are still being built.

Why Join Rhythm

• Direct partnership with the CEO and meaningful influence on company strategy.
• Board-level exposure and ownership of the financial narrative.
• The opportunity to build a finance function from the ground up in a scaling SaaS company.
• A remote-first, high-trust culture focused on accountability and impact.
• Clear path to grow into a Chief Financial Officer role over time.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.