Job Description

About Us:

Institute of Free Technology is a mission-driven tech startup studio. We take ideas from the drawing board to market with support in financial, technical, legal, people operations, and brand-building at every step. Our startups are free to focus on what they do best — building public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the CFO to create and execute a forward-looking FP&A function tailored to our project portfolio and startup studio business model.
• Establish and manage a regular reporting, forecasting, and scenario planning cadence that aligns with and supports the fast-paced, innovative nature of our business.
• Work alongside the CFO and other senior leaders to develop and iterate our budgeting and capital allocation processes.
• Build and maintain sophisticated, scalable financial models with a focus on interoperability between existing and future models, both within Finance and other teams, to support scenario planning, predictive modelling, and valuation analysis.
• Act as a trusted partner to project teams, helping them understand financial and, where relevant, non-financial variances. Identify improvement levers and enable data-driven decision making.
• Provide analytical support to both the projects and the leadership team for evaluating the profitability and strategic value of current and potential future projects within the portfolio.

You ideally will have:

Must Haves:

• Ability to develop trusted working relationships with highly technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience in creating robust, scalable financial models that reflect a deep understanding of the underlying project, capturing and quantifying the inherent uncertainty of early-stage projects in our industry.
• Skill in presenting and communicating data, including complex financial concepts, to non-financial stakeholders in a way that influences behaviour and drives important decisions.
• Strong Python development skills and knowledge/experience of software development workflows and tools (e.g., Markdown, Git).
• A collaborative mindset with our project portfolio and other IFT stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively both remotely and asynchronously.
• Experience in and an interest in blockchain technology.

Should Haves:

• Previous experience in setting up or substantially developing an FP&A function in an early-stage company.
• A professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, etc.).
• Experience managing and developing a small team.

Bonus Points if:

• You have a degree (or post-graduate qualification) in a quantitative discipline (STEM, economics, finance, etc.).
• You have demonstrable experience in developing or modelling the tokenomics (or other blockchain-specific financial structures) of a web3 project.
• Experience in valuation projects of seed-stage or other early-stage companies.
• Experience working for an open-source organization.

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Hiring process:

• Introductory call with the Talent team
• Interview with the CFO
• Paid task
• Interview with Co-founder

Compensation:

The compensation range for this role depends on how we evaluate your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are open to payments in any combination of fiat/crypto.