Head of Finance

Job description

Tracksuit helps brands prove that brand building is worth it. We give marketing teams the data they need to make smarter decisions, earn internal credibility, and grow more sustainable businesses. We're scaling fast across New Zealand, Australia, the US and the UK, backed by world-class investors and trusted by more than 1,000 brands globally. As we grow, the complexity of our business is growing with us, and Finance is entering its next stage of maturity. We're looking for a **Head of Finance** to own and evolve Tracksuit's Finance function across our global group. Reporting to our **COO**, you'll lead the Finance team and be responsible for making sure Tracksuit has strong financial control, accurate reporting, scalable systems and processes, effective financial planning, and the financial insight needed to make great decisions as we scale. This is a broad leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable getting into the detail of a month-end close, challenging a forecast, coaching a team member, improving a system, or helping the leadership team think through an important commercial decision. If you're a finance leader who combines strong technical foundations with commercial judgement, loves building better ways of working, and gets energy from the pace and ambiguity of a scaling SaaS company, keep reading. ### Why this role is exciting Tracksuit is at a point where Finance can have an enormous impact on what comes next. The foundations are in place, but the company is scaling, our global operations are becoming more sophisticated, and the Finance function needs to evolve with them. You'll have the opportunity to shape how Finance operates, build out the team, improve our systems and controls, and create the financial planning and insight capability that supports the next stage of Tracksuit's growth. You won't be joining to simply maintain an established Finance machine. You'll be expected to keep building it. You'll also have a genuine seat at the table, partnering closely with the COO, leadership team and wider business on financial performance, planning, resourcing and strategic decision-making. ### What you'll actually do - **Lead and build the Finance function.** Own the overall Finance operating model across New Zealand, Australia, the US and the UK. Lead, coach and develop the Finance team, create clear accountability across roles and processes, and continue building the capability we need as Tracksuit scales. - **Own financial reporting and control.** Take responsibility for monthly, quarterly and annual reporting across the group, including month-end close, consolidation, balance sheet integrity, accounting policies, controls and management reporting. You'll continue raising the bar on audit readiness and our overall control environment. - **Drive budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.** Own our annual budget, reforecasting, cash flow forecasting and longer-term financial modelling. Partner with leaders across Tracksuit to improve financial accountability, understand performance, identify risks and opportunities, and make informed trade-offs. - **Own cash flow and working capital.** Maintain clear visibility over group liquidity, banking, treasury and cash allocation across our entities. You'll oversee AP, AR and working capital and ensure we have the right controls and accountability around collections, payments and cash management. - **Oversee revenue and financial operations.** Own the financial governance around revenue recognition, billing and deferred revenue. Work closely with our GTM teams to keep customer, contract, billing and revenue data aligned and make sure our finance processes can support evolving products, pricing and packaging. - **Own tax, compliance and our global finance structure.** Oversee statutory and tax compliance across NZ, AU, US and UK, manage external advisors, maintain our transfer pricing framework, support intercompany arrangements and cross-border cash flows, and lead Tracksuit's R&D tax incentive process. - **Build scalable systems and processes.** Own our Finance systems stack and automation strategy. You'll identify opportunities to remove manual work, strengthen controls and improve workflows across reporting, month-end, revenue, AP, AR, payroll and compliance. We're particularly excited about the opportunity for AI and automation to help a lean Finance team operate at a much higher level. - **Be a commercial partner to the business.** Work closely with leaders across Tracksuit on headcount, investment decisions, resource allocation, operating performance and commercial opportunities. You'll help teams understand the financial impact of their decisions and constructively challenge assumptions when required. - **Support our Board, investors and future fundraising.** Partner with the COO on financial reporting, forecasts, KPIs and analysis for the Board. You'll also help keep Tracksuit diligence-ready and support future fundraising, investor requests, capital planning and strategic transactions. ### You'll thrive here if - **You can zoom in and zoom out.** You're comfortable moving from board-level discussions and long-term planning to reviewing a reconciliation or digging into the mechanics of a finance process. This is a leadership role, but not one where the detail becomes someone else's problem. - **You're commercially minded, not just technically strong.** You understand that Finance isn't here simply to report what happened. You use financial information to help the business decide what to do next. - **You've scaled before.** You've seen what happens when startup processes stop working and know how to introduce the right level of structure, controls and process without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. - **You build teams, not dependency.** You create clear ownership, coach people to make better decisions, set a high bar and build a Finance function that gets stronger as the company grows. - **You're comfortable with ambiguity.** Tracksuit is growing quickly across multiple markets. Products evolve, systems change and new problems appear. You can make sensible decisions with imperfect information and adjust as the business changes. - **You're a systems thinker.** You naturally look for ways to simplify, automate and improve. You're curious about technology and AI and see both as tools for building a more scalable Finance function. - **You communicate clearly.** You can turn complex financial information into something useful for a CEO, functional leader, Board member or someone who's never opened a set of financial statements. - **You combine high standards with pragmatism.** You know where Finance needs rigour and where "good enough for now" is the right answer. ### What we're looking for ## - **8+ years of relevant Finance experience**, including experience operating at Financial Controller, Head of Finance or a similar senior level. - **CA, CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification.** - Experience owning a Finance function, or significant components of one. - Strong technical accounting, financial reporting, financial control and audit capability. - Experience leading, coaching and developing Finance team members. - Experience in **SaaS, technology or another recurring-revenue business**. - Experience operating in a **high-growth or scaling environment**. - Strong budgeting, forecasting, cash flow and financial modelling capability. - A strong understanding of SaaS and recurring revenue metrics, including ARR, MRR, NRR, gross margin, CAC, LTV and burn. - Experience managing financial reporting and compliance across multiple entities or jurisdictions. - Experience working with external auditors and tax advisors. - Strong commercial judgement and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across the business. - Comfort using modern Finance systems and an interest in automation, integrations and AI. - **Bonus points if you have:** - Experience preparing a business for its first audit. - Experience supporting fundraising, investor due diligence or corporate transactions. - Experience improving or implementing Finance systems as a company scales. - Experience working across some combination of New Zealand, Australia, the US and the UK. Don't tick every box? If you've got the right attitude and most of the experience, we'd still love to hear from you. Some of our best Trackstars didn't fit a traditional mould. ### Why you'll love it here ## - **Employee Share Option Program (ESOP):** Every Trackstar has a share in our success. - **Compensation:** Competitive market-rate remuneration, with our radically transparent compensation approach designed to keep salaries fair across the team. - **Progressive health and wellness benefits:** Including an annual wellness bonus, access to a premium EAP platform, and six weeks of paid annual leave. - **Generous parental benefits:** 12 weeks' paid parental leave for either caregiver, additional sick leave for IVF, and a gradual return to work. - **L&D budget:** $1,000 per year to invest in your own learning and development, plus additional opportunities including mentorships, speaking engagements and travel. - **Flexible/hybrid working:** We have beautiful offices in Auckland, Sydney, New York and London. We're office-first but offer flexibility day to day and take a balanced approach to WFH and in-office work. - **High care, high performance culture:** Big ambitions, real support. We push each other to be brilliant and look after each other while we do it. - **Epic Tracksuit merch:** You'll get your own Tracksuit. Obviously. - **Genuine impact:** You'll lead a critical function at a company that's changing how the world's best brands understand and communicate the value of brand building.