Manage FP&A for US customers: produce managerial reports, build forecasting, budgeting, unit-economics and financial models, analyze statements, recommend cost optimizations, lead stakeholder communications, and manage projects and financial systems development.
Who are we?
Fuel is building the first multi-agent platform for finance, automating the work of the CFO office with AI. Founded in 2021 as a finance-as-a-service company that ran finance for businesses with over $1B in combined P&L, Fuel rebuilt itself around agents in 2026. Backed by Markus Villig (Bolt), John S. Kim (SendBird), Stratmind, and Bad Ideas.
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Who are we searching for?
We're looking for an enthusiastic FP&A Manager to cover the financial needs of our US customers. You'll provide strategic recommendations, optimize costs, and prevent cash gaps. You'll work closely with top management and founders of startups and will act as a finance partner to their businesses. If you're proactive and enjoy problem-solving, we want you on our team!
What are your responsibilities?
- Prepare managerial financial reports based on raw data
- Review and correct accountants in the preparation of financial statements
- Develop financial systems from scratch with our R&D team
- Work with multiple data sources and large volumes of data
- Build unit economics systems with detailed operational analysis for various business models
- Develop forecasting systems with KPIs for all the departments
- Establish and manage the budgeting process to control and prevent cash gaps
- Lead direct communication with the founders and CFOs on the customer's side
- Analyze financial statements and business metrics in general
- Provide recommendations for optimizing costs, improving the financial situation, and compiling a financial strategy
- Manage projects: project strategy, deadlines, the priority of tasks, quality of projects, team workload, and task control
- Create financial models
What are the preferred requirements for the role?
- 5+ years of relevant experience in financial consulting in a fast-growing company with different business models
- C1 English level
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to distill into structured frameworks and concrete action plans
- Experience in managerial roles, managing teams and projects
- Expertise in the analysis of financial indicators: knowledge of the GAAP and unit economics
- Experience in managing the company's finances: providing recommendations, implementing decisions
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, and other business processes
- Strategic thinking and the ability to independently carry out rigorous problem-solving
- Proven ability to prioritize and maintain a system for proactively managing multiple customers, projects, and requests, for creating and managing a plan, and for keeping your teams organized too
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Proactivity and high level of responsibility
- Ability to work according to the EST time zone
- AI fluency — comfortable using AI tools to work efficiently, with the judgment to verify outputs and know when human oversight is needed
- Experience in workflow automation
Will be a plus:
- Experience in the US startups.
Reporting Structure: reporting to the Head of the FP&A Team.
Recruitment Process:
- Soft skills interview with the recruiter
- Hard skills interview with the FP&A team lead
- Test Task
- Culture fit interview with the CEO
Why work with us?
- Mentorship from senior finance specialists and CFOs
- Rapid skills improvements (you'll be managing the finance of 3-5 companies with different business models and different challenges)
- Growth opportunities according to our seniority grading (it comes with a compensation increase)
- Freedom to innovate and create
- Flexible schedule and time-off policy
- 18 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leaves
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