Finance Engineer

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Skip The Finance Engineer at Skip will build and automate the finance function from basic accounting to a live financial operating system using AI tools. This role includes managing cash flow, transitioning to accrual accounting, and automating finance workflows.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly motivated, AI native finance builder to be Skip’s first dedicated finance hire. You will take our finance function from a Xero account and good intentions to a real operating system: accrual books, clean controls, a live financial model, and AI workflows and agents that handle the repetitive work so you can focus on the decisions that matter. If you do something twice, you automate it.
Own cash flow management across complex supplier and customer payment terms, including invoicing, collections, and payables
Move our books from cash to accrual accounting and bring real rigor to capex, inventory, and fixed asset accounting
Set up warranty reserves, product liability accounting, and the insurance coverage a consumer hardware company needs
Migrate us off Xero onto AI native finance tools, and make it easy for the team to issue POs, track spend, and get approvals without chasing anyone
Build workflows, scripts, and agents that automate the close, reconciliations, reporting, and variance analysis, with an audit trail behind every number
Own working capital strategy: evaluate and secure the right mix of inventory and product financing, working capital lines, invoice factoring, SBA loans, and venture debt
Build and own our financial model, including burn, runway, unit economics, BOM costing, COGS, and scenario planning we can run live in a meeting
Lead Series A readiness: clean financials, board materials, investor updates, data room, and diligence support
Partner closely with manufacturing and operations on vendor terms, purchasing, and supply chain cash flow

Qualification

4 to 8 years in accountingStrong accounting fundamentalsYou build with AI every dayComfortable with SQLExperience with hardwareHands on experience with debt financingOperator mindsetCPA or Big 4 backgroundSkip is an equal opportunity employer

Required

4 to 8 years in accounting, FP&A, strategic finance, or controller roles, ideally including time at an early stage company
Strong accounting fundamentals; you’ve run or overseen a cash to accrual transition and know GAAP well enough to set policy, not just follow it
You build with AI every day. You’ve used Claude Code, Codex, or similar to ship real tools for a finance team, and you can show us
Comfortable with SQL, Python, and APIs; you’d rather wire two systems together than export a CSV
Experience with hardware, inventory, or manufacturing finance
Hands on experience with debt financing, whether working capital lines, venture debt, or asset based lending
Operator mindset: you bring the controls and rigor of a big company without the bureaucracy
Clear communicator who can walk an engineer through cash runway and an investor through unit economics

Preferred

CPA or Big 4 background
Experience supporting a priced Series A or later round
Familiarity with AI native finance tools (Rillet, Ramp, Brex, Concourse, or similar), plus Carta and Rippling
This is a full time hybrid position working at the Skip office in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.
Skip is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based on need and competence to satisfy said need. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status.
Any and all offers of employment extended by Skip are conditional on candidates’ ability to provide satisfactory proof of eligibility to maintain full-time employment in the United States.

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