Napster is seeking a creative and passionate finance professional to oversee core financial operations, contribute to fundraising efforts, and to oversee major cost centers including HR. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a fast paced environment and managing multiple workstreams concurrently, and have experience overseeing high functioning Finance & Accounting teams, as well as human resources team members.
- Serve as a financial advisor to the CEO and executive team for strategic planning purposes
- Oversee all sides of accounting operations, including payables, receivables, payroll, and tax preparation
- Partner with the CEO and CFO to support corporate finance activities, including venture capital fundraising
- Oversee and ensure regular financial reporting (e.g. preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements), forecasts, planning, financial modeling, budgeting, financial analysis, cash management, and procurement
- Oversee development, oversight, and management of the organization’s capital plan
- Lead and manage the budgeting process
- Gather financial data for analysis and forecasting with respect to profits, trends, costs, and compliance
- Coordinate the preparation of annual, quarterly, and monthly reports
- Manage insurance coverage for the organization, including compliance
- Ensure compliance with tax laws and regulations
- Manage onboarding and offboarding of employees
- Audit and improve productivity and effectiveness of current cross team processes
- Manage and supervise all AR/AP cycles with external partners and customers - including the implementation of accounting and billing systems and controls
- Support the CEO on Equity administration and planning
- Keep careful tabs on regular transactions, investments and any business deals that affect the bottom line.
- Conduct regular audits of expenditures, assets and liabilities
Skills and Experience
- Exceptional financial skills and experience leading teams in large-scale growth companies
- Strong industry expertise and network within Web3, media, technology and consumer products and services a major plus.
- Solid cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to build consensus among teams (executive leadership, product, engineering, marketing, business development).
- Excellent strategic presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to identify strategic concerns quickly and drive internal stakeholders to a consensus
- Strong analytical skills to help evaluate and optimize business performance tying them to company OKR’s.
- Excellent contract negotiation skills, ability to manage deals independently.
Professional Qualifications:
- MBA or CPA highly desired; or demonstrated 5+ years of experience managing all financial functions of a growth stage company.
- Experience working for a music publisher or music label strongly preferred
- 12+ years of Finance and Operations experience.
- Strategy and business model development background (preferred)
- Banking, management consulting or Big 4 accounting background experience preferred.
What We Do
Napster was the original music industry disruptor of the Web1 era. A name steeped in innovation, we are proudly synonymous with music. We started a revolution as the very first platform to imagine how we would all enjoy entertainment in the future.
Utilising peer-to-peer technology, the original Napster put fans front and centre by creating a new means of music distribution. In subsequent years, it evolved into a fully licensed subscription-based music streaming service.
The recently refreshed Napster is currently available in 33 countries across a wide range of connected devices.
At Napster, we believe that diversity of thought, experience and background are critical to our success, and we’ve created a culture that supports, inspires, respects and includes all individuals (including colleagues, customers, contractors and suppliers).
Napster is an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, parental status, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic. Working with us is solely down to your talent, experience, qualifications and professional competence.
This policy applies to every aspect of life at Napster, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination. The Napster family live this policy, because it’s the right thing to do. It’s who we are.
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