Havoc AI The VP of Finance at Havoc AI leads financial planning, performance management, and strategic initiatives while partnering with the CFO and executive team. This role ensures financial visibility and discipline to support company growth.
Responsibilities
HavocAI is seeking a Vice President of Finance to serve as a key leader within the finance organization and strategic partner to the CFO and executive team.
The VP of Finance will own financial planning and performance management, help shape the company’s financial strategy, lead critical strategic initiatives, and play a significant role in investor relations. This role will be responsible for ensuring HavocAI has the financial visibility, discipline, systems, and processes required to support continued growth.
This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who combines exceptional financial and analytical capabilities with a hands-on, entrepreneurial approach. You should be comfortable creating structure in ambiguity, moving quickly when priorities change, and building a high-performing finance organization as HavocAI scales.
Financial Planning & Strategy
Own HavocAI’s financial planning processes, including annual and quarterly budgeting, long-range planning, cash flow forecasting, and monthly performance reporting.
Develop and execute financial strategies that support company objectives, including cash management, liquidity, capital allocation, and investment decisions.
Drive financial discipline, visibility, and fact-based decision-making across the organization.
Partner with executive leadership to evaluate strategic initiatives, investments, commercial opportunities, and other major business decisions.
Develop sophisticated financial models, forecasts, scenarios, and analyses to support company strategy.
Identify key financial and operational risks and opportunities and proactively develop recommendations for leadership.
Financial Performance & Business Partnership
Establish clear reporting around financial performance, operating metrics, and organizational KPIs.
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in Finance10+ years of progressive FP&ADeep expertise in financial planningStrong judgmentEntrepreneurialExperience with inventory managementWhat Success Looks Like
Required
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
10+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance experience, including 5+ years of people leadership experience.
Demonstrated success leading finance within a high-growth technology or similarly complex organization.
Deep expertise in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, cash flow management, and financial modeling.
Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect financial performance to underlying operational drivers.
Exceptional ability to translate complex financial information into compelling, executive-level insights and recommendations.
Demonstrated experience building and developing high-performing finance teams.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders across an organization.
Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities, incomplete information, and significant organizational growth.
Strong judgment, attention to detail, and commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work.
Entrepreneurial, hands-on leadership style with the willingness to move between strategic initiatives and detailed execution.
Preferred
Finance leadership experience within a high-growth startup or technology company.
Experience supporting hardware or manufacturing businesses.
Experience with inventory management, cost accounting, or supply-chain-related finance.
Experience supporting SaaS or software business models.
Experience leading or supporting investor relations and capital-raising activities.
Experience implementing or scaling FP&A and financial reporting systems.
Experience introducing automation or AI into finance workflows.
