Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Salary: $150K Employment Type: FullTime

About Us

Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our content, newsletters, podcasts, and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.

Who You Are

• You consider yourself a financial planning guru and truly enjoy designing, developing, and performing financial analysis on key metrics and KPIs, providing valuable data-driven insights to support decision-making.
• You thrive in the financial details and enjoy using deep analysis to help shape a compelling narrative.
• You're excited at the opportunity to assess company performance while tracking economic and business trends in an effort to help craft financial plans that maximize outcomes.
• You're operationally minded and know that the path to sustainability and success comes from an unrelenting focus on efficiency and effectiveness.
• You love diving into processes to look for new ways to improve and optimize financial performance.
• You're at home partnering with other leaders across the organization to help them understand their current costs and brainstorm new ways to reduce spending while increasing performance.

What You’ll Do

As our Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis, you will provide hands-on leadership in shaping, driving, and executing all Accounting and Finance Operations at Blockworks. You'll be responsible for helping to shape the overall direction for our financial planning and analysis function, including strategy design, process definition and improvement, and overall finance team leadership and organizational support. Every day will look a little different, but in general, you will:

• Drive Accounting Policy and Strategy:
  • Responsible for the design, education, and implementation of accounting strategies, policies, and practices.
  • Ensure alignment with investor relations expectations.
  • Clearly and concisely communicate policies to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Own Monthly Accounting and Reporting Workflows:
  • Own the entire month-end process, including reviewing and approving financials (closing the books).
  • Proactive communication of results.
  • Ensure all business-as-usual FP&A documents accurately reflect the most recent month of actuals.
• Oversee Tax, Audit, and Insurance Management:
  • Partner with internal and external experts to drive compliance and performance across Tax, Audit, and Insurance domains.
  • Ensure associated policies and processes are clearly defined and executed on time.
  • General performance meets or exceeds board governance standards.
• Oversee Cayman Island Operations:
  • Manage the end-to-end Cayman Islands deal flow and accounting process.
  • Ensure all deals and treasury management strategies are executed in compliance with Blockworks Policy and Legal Counsel advice.
• Manage Payroll:
  • Partner with the People & Culture team to review and approve payroll.
  • Ensure all employees and contractors are paid accurately and on time.
• Team Leadership:
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing team members.
  • Foster collaboration, development, and performance.
  • Align the team's roadmap with organizational goals and initiatives.

Experimentation is frequent at Blockworks. Comfortability with being uncomfortable is a must.

What You’ve Done Before

• First and foremost, you are a CPA (or equivalent) with a keen eye for detail and a focus on telling a 100% accurate story with data.
• You consider yourself highly analytical and love spending time inside BI and reporting tools to help you learn directly from the data.
• You love diving into complex problems and have a high level of commercial instincts.
• You have played a major role in helping a company coordinate simple and effective finance processes, both remotely and in-person.