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.
