Flytedesk powers media and advertising on college campuses. We build the technology that college media organizations and universities use to manage their operations. We build the technology that small businesses use to reach students. We work with brands, campaigns, and causes as their college partner in understanding, reaching, and driving outcomes with students.
We have a presence at almost every college in the country and the ability to reach 20 million students through campus billboards, student influencers, campus email newsletters, college newspapers, digital ads, SMS, and more.
We started flytedesk as the tool we needed at our college newspapers and have grown to become the single largest funding source for student journalism. Brick by brick, we’re creating a sustainable business model for college media by providing a coveted service to advertisers. We’re mission-driven, profitable, newly remote, and unrelenting in pushing our business and customers forward.
responsibilities
Financial Management: We’ve been broke before. We know what it looks like, we know what it feels like… we’re not fans. We’ve worked incredibly hard to go from ‘startup just trying to figure it out’ to ‘startup that has had a lot of success and needs to invest in improving on the stuff that’s made us successful’. But we’re still a startup and we’ll probably be scrappy all the way till the end. We expect you to be a true steward of capital: owning budgets, projections, and models. You very likely have done this at a startup before, but also have experience doing it at much larger companies.
Accounting: In the short term, you’ll manage all AP/AR across all revenue streams. We’ll ask you to audit and improve current processes, manage Quickbooks, etc. We have a fractional CFO and book-keeping firm, and you’ll come in and own those relationships. You should have a really solid accounting foundation and be able to hire a team in the future.
Startup Finance: What is startup finance? It’s all the stuff you probably wouldn’t have anything to do with at a bigger company but that you’ll own here. Insurance, filing taxes, HR (including onboarding and offboarding), payroll, setting up a 401(k), legal liaison… and anything else that comes up that you can take on. You won’t do this forever but we need someone knowledgeable, trustworthy, and independent that can keep these trains running till we hire more folks onto the team.
skills
Must Have:
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- 5+ years of Finance experience with high growth startups
- 3+ years with director-level or higher experience
- An undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, business, or
- Background in accounting or a proven accounting foundation
- Ability to work cross-functionally
- Ability to wear many hats and check your ego at the door
- Comfortable with operations and building basic processes
- Fluent in Quickbooks
- HR experience or willingness to make it work
Nice to Have:
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- Experience building and leading a team
- Experience in media and advertising
- Experience with B2B SaaS business models
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