Head of Finance

Scotch’s mission is to modernize one of the oldest industries on earth: the $1.6T beverage alcohol market. We’re starting by building the next-generation operating system for Bev Alc retailers (POS, payments, Back Office, E-commerce). We build fast, intuitive software that helps operators run their business with less friction — and we're doing it at a moment when AI is fundamentally changing what a great finance function looks like.

This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape what finance becomes at a high-growth technology company.

We are looking for a Head of Finance who has spent meaningful time learning from world-class SVP- and CFO-level finance leaders — and who is ready to stop executing someone else's playbook and start writing their own. This person understands that the traditional FP&A model (large analyst teams, manual spreadsheet cycles, quarterly variance decks that take three weeks to build) is being disrupted, and they want to be the one doing the disrupting.

You will build the finance function from the ground up. That means owning forecasting and long-range planning, acting as a true strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team, and — critically — architecting a workflow where AI can do the analytical heavy lifting so you can focus on the judgment calls that actually move the business.

• Lead the annual operating plan and rolling forecasts, owning the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow models end-to-end.
• Build scenario models that give the leadership team fast, clear answers when the business faces inflection points — pricing changes, new verticals, geographic expansion, M&A.
• Establish a single source of financial truth across the company, replacing ad hoc spreadsheets with a coherent, auditable planning architecture.

• Serve as the primary financial thought partner to the CEO — translating data into narrative and narrative into decisions.
• Partner with Sales, Product, and Operations to develop unit economics frameworks, cohort analyses, and payback models that inform resource allocation.
• Own board and investor reporting: prepare materials that are insightful, not just accurate.

• Design and own an AI-augmented FP&A stack — using Claude and other models to automate variance analysis, draft commentary, surface anomalies, and compress reporting cycles from weeks to hours.
• Identify the analytical workflows that are best delegated to AI agents and build the prompts, guardrails, and review processes that make those workflows reliable.
• Act as an internal evangelist and educator: help the broader finance and operations team understand how to work alongside AI tools effectively.

• Own monthly and quarterly close support, working closely with accounting to ensure the FP&A view and the GL view stay aligned.
• Develop the KPI and metrics framework — deciding what we measure, how we define it, and how we surface it to the right people at the right cadence.
• Implement financial controls and documentation practices that will hold up as the company scales toward audit-readiness.

• 6–10 years of progressive finance experience, with at least 2–3 years at a high-growth technology or SaaS company.
• You have worked closely under an SVP of Finance, VP of FP&A, or CFO who set a high bar — and you internalized that bar. Now you want to set it yourself.
• Comfortable in the weeds of a three-statement model and equally comfortable presenting a one-page recommendation to a CEO.
• Prior experience building or significantly overhauling an FP&A function is a strong plus.
• Some grounding in accounting — debits, credits, how the P&L connects to the balance sheet — is genuinely useful here. A CPA is not required, but candidates who can think in GAAP and speak fluently with the accounting team will have a real edge.

• Expert-level financial modeling skills; you can build from scratch, audit someone else's model, and know where the bodies are buried in a complex Excel file.
• Hands-on experience with at least one FP&A or BI platform (Mosaic, Pigment, Looker, Tableau, or similar).
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