Head of Finance

Job description

## About SigNoz SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that helps modern engineering teams monitor, debug, and optimize their applications with deep visibility into metrics, traces, and logs — all in one place. We're built natively on OpenTelemetry and offer both self-hosted and cloud options, so teams can run observability the way they want, without vendor lock-in. We are growing fast and building core developer infra products. And we are not fooling around: - 32,000+ GitHub stars - 1000+ customers - 8,000+ members in our Slack community ## Role: Head of Finance We're looking for a Head of Finance to build and own the finance function end-to-end. Today we're at meaningful revenue scale with a finance setup that got us here but won't get us to the next stage. Our books are accurate but slow. We can tell you our blended gross margin — we can't yet tell you which customer cohorts, plans, and workloads are actually profitable. That matters more for us than for most SaaS companies: we run petabyte-scale infrastructure, so compute and storage cost per customer *is* our margin story. You'll report to the CEO, own everything from monthly close to the due-diligence data room, and partner closely with engineering on the cost side of the business. This is a build role. Real revenue, incomplete infrastructure, and you'll be constructing systems while the numbers keep moving. ## What you'll work on - Controllership: monthly close in under 15 days, revenue recognition for usage-based and contracted plans, statutory audit, AR and collections - Multi-entity finance across our US and India entities — intercompany, transfer pricing, consolidation - Compliance: GST, TDS, ROC/MCA, FEMA and RBI filings, ESOP administration and perquisite tax - Gross margin engineering: partnering with the platform team on infra spend, cloud commitments, and cost per ingested GB - FP&A: annual operating plan, rolling forecast built from operating drivers, MIS that functional leaders act on - Cash and treasury: 13-week cash flow, runway, USD/INR exposure, banking and surplus deployment - Getting us off spreadsheets — ERP, billing ops, expense management, procurement approvals, internal controls - Building a small, high-leverage finance team as the load grows ## What will make you successful - CA with 8–12 years post-qualification - You have personally owned a monthly close and a statutory audit — owned, not supervised - You've built a financial model from operating drivers, been wrong in public about it, and can talk about what you learned - Working fluency in Indian startup compliance: GST, TDS, ROC, FEMA, ESOP taxation - Comfortable with messy, incomplete data and willing to ship a defensible answer before the data is perfect - Strong communication — can explain a margin problem to an engineer and a burn scenario to a board member in the same week - You'll argue with the CEO using data, and keep the relationship intact ## Nice-to-haves - Big 4 audit or TAS early, followed by real operating years in a funded startup - Currently #2 in finance at a Series B/C company and ready to run the function - Multi-entity experience, especially US–India structures - SaaS or usage-based billing revenue recognition - You've been through a fundraise from the inside, whatever your role in it ## A few things we'll be straight about - Roughly 40% of year one is unglamorous: GST reconciliations, audit queries, chasing collections. If you only want strategic finance, you'll be restless here for a while. - You'll find things that are wrong. We'd rather you find them than an auditor or an investor. ## Why you'll love working at SigNoz - Build a finance function from scratch at a company with real revenue and real momentum - Huge scope and ownership — you'll own the number, the narrative, and the systems behind both - Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers actually love - Remote-first, async-friendly culture - A finance problem that's genuinely interesting: open-source distribution, usage-based economics, and infrastructure at petabyte scale