Finance Lead

TLDR: We're looking for a hands-on Finance Lead to own day-to-day accounting and finance operations: from reviewing expenses, invoices, and receipts to financial reporting, forecasting, and cash & burn tracking.

About us

White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies - simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn't do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.

• We've raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others
• We process over one hundred million API calls every month
• We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model

We're a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built - you're the one we need.

You will

• Own day-to-day finance and accounting operations across different entities, with a focus on the US entity and US GAAP accounting
• Own the monthly financial close and ensure our reporting and financial data are accurate and up to date
• Work with external accountants, tax advisors, auditors, and other finance providers where needed
• Build and maintain financial reporting that gives a clear view of revenue, expenses, cash, burn, runway, and overall financial health
• Own budgeting and forecasting processes, including estimating revenue, expenses, headcount, cash needs, and runway
• Build and maintain financial models to support hiring, spending, pricing, fundraising, and other strategic decisions
• Help design and improve accounting and finance processes as we scale
• Prepare financial information and analyses for investors, fundraising processes, board materials, and due diligence
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive finance workflows and improve the quality and speed of financial reporting

You'll fit right in if you

• You have hands-on experience with US GAAP accounting (must-have)
• You have strong accounting fundamentals and are comfortable owning the financial close and financial reporting process
• You can work independently and take ownership of the finance function without needing a large team around you
• You have experience with accounting or finance in a multi-entity or group company setup

A big plus

• CPA qualification
• Experience with international accounting
• Experience with financial forecasting, budgeting, cash flow planning, and burn/runway tracking
• Build lightweight dashboards and internal tools when needed to make financial analysis more accessible
• Comfortable building financial models from scratch and using them to answer real business questions
• Experience setting up finance and accounting processes from scratch

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity
• Flexible time off
• Health insurance
• Mental health support, including coverage for therapy when you need it
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Learning and development support for courses, conferences, and opportunities to grow your skills
• All the hardware, subscriptions, tools, and services you need
• Team off-sites twice a year: we've recently been to the Alps, Saint-Tropez, and Marbella

How we hire

1. Intro call (25 min)
2. Take-home test assignment
3. Final call with CEO & Head of Ops (45 min)