Finance Manager / Controller
Los Angeles or Remote within the USPasses is a leading platform dedicated to empowering creators and fostering meaningful connections with their audiences, providing innovative solutions that help creators grow and thrive in the digital landscape. Passes is seeking a dynamic, ownership-minded Finance Manager to lead financial operations. This person doesn't need the most senior title on paper, but they need to be comfortable owning the entire finance function, from day-to-day operations to strategic financial planning, and should be highly fluent with AI tools like Claude to operate at a more senior level than years of experience alone would suggest.
Key Responsibilities:
- Financial Leadership
- Own all financial operations: budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and analysis
- Manage payroll (we use Rippling) and day-to-day financial operations
- Own headcount cost modeling and understand the fully-loaded cost of each role
- Own PNL reporting and present regular financial updates to leadership
- Monitor and manage cash flow and efficient use of company resources
- Manage budget tracking via Ramp for employee spend, flagging out-of-policy transactions
- ComplianceEnsure financial compliance across the company, including tax filings, GAAP-aligned reporting, and audit readiness
- Implement internal controls and financial policies
- Stay current on payments compliance requirements as our payments platform product scales
- Payments & Technical Systems
- Work hands-on in Passes' proprietary system and in Mercury for manual payouts, vendor invoicing, and general payments
- Support financial operations for our our payments platform product, partnering closely with the technical team on how payment flows and manual interventions affect the books
- Sales Compensation
- Partner with the Head of People on commission structures, payout modeling, and compensation benchmarking for the sales team
- Strategic & RiskBring exposure to fundraising and M&A dynamics; comfortable in a startup environment where these conversations are part of the territory
- Identify and mitigate financial risk
- Our Stack: Mercury, Ramp, Rippling, Claude, Microsoft Office (excel), Google Suite
Qualifications:
- 2-6+ years of experience in finance roles (flexibility for less experienced candidates with an exceptional academic or professional background)
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
- Strong fluency with AI tools, particularly Claude, is a hard requirement
- Comfortable owning a full department with limited senior backup
- Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment
Benefits:
- Base salary starts at $120,000 plus equity package
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTOFlexible work environment with remote options[If in Los Angeles] Private chef in our Hollywood HQ for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Passes is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.