Finance & Accounting Manager (Operations + FP&A)

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We invest in our people and our communities through programs like Compassion Is Badass (supporting boots-on-the-ground social impact causes), A Better Me (an annual stipend to invest in yourself—health, growth, gear, and more), and various other initiatives.

Kake is hiring a hands-on finance and accounting operator to help run our financial engine end-to-end while partnering with leadership on forecasting, budgeting, and performance visibility.

This is a hybrid role spanning accounting operations (AP/AR, payroll, close, bookkeeping) and forward-looking finance (cash flow forecasting, budgeting, KPI reporting). You’ll work closely with the Kake leadership team to tighten processes, improve accuracy, and build repeatable systems that scale.

• Own day-to-day bookkeeping and month-end close process: reconciliations, clean financials, and a consistent monthly reporting cadence
• Maintain strong internal controls and clean audit trails
• Maintain clean, reliable financials, including chart of accounts hygiene and consistent categorization

• Own AR end-to-end: invoice creation, delivery, payment tracking, and reconciliation
• Maintain accurate AR aging reports and provide regular visibility into expected receipts and cash flow timing
• Partner with leadership and client-facing teams to resolve billing questions, disputes, and invoice exceptions quickly and professionally

• Own AP workflows: vendor onboarding, bill intake, coding, approval routing, and on-time payments
• Improve documentation and controls (approval thresholds, audit trail hygiene, repeatable SOPs) to reduce risk and prevent errors
• Forecast near-term outflows and keep leadership informed about upcoming payables and cash needs

• Own payroll operations end-to-end: pay runs, month-to-month variability, reimbursements, and auditing
• Gather and validate inputs, ensure calculation accuracy, handle exceptions, and produce clear reporting for leadership and stakeholders

• Build and maintain rolling forecasts and support budgeting cycles
• Track and explain key drivers and variances month-over-month and year-over-year to support decisions
• Track and report burn (burn rate, runway, cash-in vs. cash-out) and provide insight into what’s driving changes
• Deliver KPI reporting and simple dashboards that leadership can use, including trends and narrative insights

• Support international vendor/contractor payments and multi-currency considerations
• Ensure consistent handling of conversion rates and FX impacts in bookkeeping and reporting

• Own and evolve finance workflows using Quick Books, Excel/Google Sheets, and Airtable (and related tooling)
• Create and maintain SOPs so finance operations are reliable, scalable, and resilient
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and strengthen visibility into the business

• 5-7+ years of progressive experience in finance/accounting roles (SMB / growth-stage experience strongly preferred)
• Demonstrated ownership of AP/AR, payroll operations, and month-end close in a hands-on capacity
• Strong forecasting and budgeting skills; comfortable building models and explaining them clearly
• Strong attention to detail and auditability
• Experience supporting international payments and multi-currency considerations
• High proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, strong working knowledge of Quick Books, and comfort working in Airtable or similar tools
• Strong judgment, professionalism, and reliability
• Clear communicator who can partner effectively with executives

• Experience in tech, software services, marketplaces, staffing, or development-adjacent businesses
• Familiarity with sales compensation design and administration
• CPA license and…