Finance Lead

About Beek

We believe that every person has the potential to be a super-hero, and they just need great stories that inspire them to begin unleashing their super powers. Our mission is to help creators share and monetize those stories and help users discover, listen and remember them.

Our platform provides the best listening experience and access to exclusive Spanish audio content from top local creators, in addition to 250K audiobooks. By simply putting on their headphones 15min a day, our app enables listeners to invest in their personal development whenever their hands are busy but their mind is free (e.g: working out, walking their dog, commuting). At the same time, creators make money every second someone listens to their content, so they are incentivized to keep providing our listeners with amazing content.

We’re starting with the 572 million hispanics in the world, with the goal to become the audio content marketplace for the entire 7.3 billion non-English speaking market underserved in local language content. We would love for you to join us on this journey!

Our Values

1. Beek team first — We are the kind of company where we clean everyone's dirty dishes even if they’re not ours, as if we were at home
2. Be an animal — We’re passionate and hustle to find creative solutions to every problem and never give up. EVER.
3. Unleash user potential — We care intensely about our users and seek to optimize for them whenever and wherever possible
4. Tell great stories — We strive to tell the most compelling stories to inspire both our users and our teammates
5. Be the best version of yourself — We do everything we can to empower ourselves and our teammates, in and outside of work

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled, detail-oriented Financial Lead who owns and uses our numbers to make strategic decisions for the company. This role owns the company's finances and planning, the financial model, treasury, admin, finance operations, and investor relations.

This role is in charge of making key strategic decisions and analyzing the company's unit economics to find growth opportunities. It also develops suggestions for short- and long-term financial plans and presents them to senior managers.

We expect you to have experience in using financial management knowledge for cost analysis, preparing budget reports, and evaluating current accounting trends. Besides, you will have to advise the company's managers on potential opportunities and strategic decisions while following our business objectives.

This key strategic position will help us grow as a company and ensure a solid number-oriented culture at Beek. The role is fully remote.

Responsibilities include:

• FP&A:
  • Build and optimize our current financial model and financial systems. Build new ones to provide full-time visibility on financial performance.
  • Developing and following up on monthly budgets by area, taking into account our revenue forecast.
  • Manage the development of our monthly financial reviews, monthly budget, forecasting, and reporting models to communicate our financial results to the operations partners.
  • Lead our business planning and strategic and financial planning processes by assisting with decision making regarding resource allocation and prioritisation.
  • Build and own financial forecast models, including scenario and in-depth ad-hoc analyses.
• Unit Economics:
  • Build and maintain the company Unit Economics report to measure each acquisition cohort’s profitability.
  • Analyze the company’s performance as well as costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and other related data and compare the actual results to the business plans
  • Business Sense skill by monitor, understand, and interpret key operational and financial metrics to help figure out strategy and action plan.
  • Develop and apply an understanding of the levers that move our business.
• Variable Cost Analysis:
  • Understand and own our variable cost structure (royalties calculation, affiliate payments, content partnerships costs, creators expenses, minimum guarantees payments…) to develop strategies that optimize our profitability.
  • Analyze, flag, and communicate trends in variable costs in accordance with our growth projections.
• Financial Strategy:
  • Identifying, driving, and measuring growth and profitability through business case initiatives, including setting pricing, improving margins, assessing new products and regions, establishing acquisition targets, and negotiating large deals and contracts.
  • Design initiatives alongside the business leaders to accurately drive revenue growth and optimize our costs and expenses
  • Help department owners and the Leadership team by developing meaningful financial insights and frameworks to gain deep insights into revenue and margins.
• Financial Operations:
  • Lead the Fin-Ops team members.
  • Manage relationships with our external accountants (in México and the USA) to guarantee timely delivery of financial reports and compliance with local and foreign regulations.
  • Management of our bank accounts (México and USA) to provide a daily measure of our cash balances and properly plan each month's treasury needs.
  • Oversee payments policy and accounts payable process.
  • Review and approve monthly expenses based on the monthly budget.
  • Vendor relationship.
• Stakeholder Management: Maintain productive working relationships with the immediate team and cross-functional partners. Lead Investor Relations and Investor Reporting.
  • Excellent communication and people skills: Numbers are key, but a business is built with people, and you will need to handle several different team members, founders, and investors.
  • Story-telling: knowing how to structure effective memos will increase your impact.

About You

You’re passionate about people and excited to join a quickly growing team and rapidly scaling company. You’re a natural leader who is energized by helping others succeed. You know that company culture is just as important as strategy and growth. For you, no challenge is too big or solution too small.

Experience, knowledge, and understanding:

• BS degree in Finance, Economics or other related area.
• 3+ years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, management consulting, controlling and/or accounting.
• Previous experience in a similar role (Finance & Strategy, FP&A: Financial Planning and Analysis, Strategic Finance) in a fast-growing FinTech/technology scale-up
• Strong quantitative and technical skills, including complex financial modeling and data analysis using tools such as SQL, MS Excel, or Python
• Robust working knowledge of accounting and financial reporting standards
• Track record of delivering results in a cross-functional, high-growth, and fast-paced environment
• Planning & Organization skills: Ability to build detailed project plans with project stages, milestones, basic interdependencies, and owners
• Data-Driven Mentality: Make strategic decisions based on data analysis and interpretation. Experience getting in the weeds of data, balanced with the ability to see the big picture.
• Executional Excellence: Ability to work and accomplish multiple tasks in parallel, delivering results in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, while maintaining high-quality work standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Spanish, it is a must to have

Bonus if:

• Previous expertise of either in startups or scale-ups by subscription revenue models such as: Marketplaces, e-Commerce, Banking & Credit, Card Payments, Crypto, Insure-tech, Ed-tech, etc.
• SQL skills: the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in this role.
• Master in Science or Master in Business Administration (MBA)
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or other relevant industry certifications