At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset – our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
Our Values
If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
Who You Are
As the Vice President, Finance, you will be responsible for building the financial infrastructure required to realize our ambitions: To make millions of peoples’ lives better. You will assume leadership of a bright, scrappy finance team and build the infrastructure and processes that allow each of our senior leaders to run rapidly growing sections of the business, providing them both the latitude to execute as they see fit and the tools, metrics and constraints to perform at their very best and in close alignment.
As the ideal candidate, you are a business leader who understands what this kind of infrastructure looks like in a high-performance, large organization ( 1500+ employees) and can’t wait to roll up your sleeves and build it at Justworks. You are easy to work with and a go-to resource for your colleagues. You know how to manage the inevitable tension between business objectives and resource utilization. You have a track record of attracting and retaining the best talent.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
Develop and execute corporate finance strategy including fundraising, capital deployment and optimization of capital structure.
Support any M&A activity that the company engages in
Implement and improve tools, systems and processes to provide critical financial and operational information to the leadership team and make actionable recommendations on both strategy and operations.
Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting and compliance.
Assess organizational performance against both budget and company’s long term strategy.
Manage the corporate financial planning, budgeting and forecasting function.
Manage the financial business partner function that partners closely with the rest of the business.
Engage leadership team to develop short, medium, and long-term financial plans and projections.
Support each function with financial analysis and guidance; be the thought leader in the unit economics math and margin enhancement projects.
Lead and develop the finance team. Hire world-class talent.
How You Will Do Your Work
As a VP of Finance, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:
Decision Quality – makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward, relying on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment.
Plans and Aligns – breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules.
Ethical Practice – the ability to integrate core values, integrity and accountability throughout all organizational and business practices.
Balances Stakeholders – understands internal and external stakeholder requirements, expectations, and needs and acts fairly despite conflicting demands of stakeholders.
Builds an effective team – Building a strong-identity team that applies their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
Camaraderie – Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
Openness – Your default is to be open. You’re willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
Grit – You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
Integrity – Simply put, do what you say and say what you’ll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
Simplicity – Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Qualifications
10+ years of financial management experience. Experience in private equity or investment banking a preferred.
Demonstrated experience building a finance function in a fast-growing company with 300+ employees.
Experience working in a subscription software or service business.
Experience in a regulated industry preferred
Experience working with large and complex cash flows.
Strong corporate finance background. M&A experience is a plus.
Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
Able to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, including directly with the board.
BS or BA required; MBA preferred.
Embrace our mission and values. Our mission is to free entrepreneurs to focus on their mission. Our values are simplicity, openness, grit, integrity and compassion.
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Please Note: We believe Justworks has a responsibility to support efforts to get as many people vaccinated as possible. We’re committed to safeguarding the well-being of our employees, their families and the broader community from the risks associated with COVID-19. Because this position requires onsite work, this position will require the successful candidate to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19. As an equal opportunity employer, Justworks will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated in accordance with its obligations pursuant to applicable federal, state, provincial, and local law.
Diversity At Justworks
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Our DEI Commitment