Fractional Finance Lead / Senior Finance Manager

**About Pufink**

Pufink helps support [Spencer Burleigh’s]( ---------- ) portfolio of entrepreneurial ventures, including a diversified e-commerce business, a consulting firm that supports startups with financial and strategic help, a platform that helps startups manufacture custom parts, and various side projects in software and AI tools. We have a small, high-performing, and globally distributed team.

We’re looking for an experienced finance professional to help expand our fractional CFO practice. If you're a finance leader who enjoys both setting up finance operations and digging into hands-on execution, this might be the perfect opportunity.

**About This Role**

We’re hiring a **Finance Lead** to work directly with Spencer across multiple client companies. This is a remote-first, **flexible role** that blends financial leadership with operational execution. You’ll help manage client finance operations, support strategic decision-making, and expand the capacity of our fractional CFO services.

This role is ideal for someone who’s managed small finance teams (accounting + FP&A), is equally comfortable leading and doing the work themselves, and is excited to work across a portfolio of growing businesses.

**You’d Be a Great Fit if You…**

- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable managing multiple client finance operations simultaneously.
- Have experience leading small finance teams (5+ people) across accounting and FP&A.
- Enjoy creating financial systems, forecasts, and models that drive business decisions.
- Are confident overseeing day-to-day accounting operations while also thinking strategically.
- Have excellent communication skills and enjoy building client trust through clear, thoughtful updates.
- Are energized by entrepreneurial environments and diverse types of businesses.
- Are highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive.

**What You’ll Do**

- Act as a senior finance partner to clients alongside Spencer.
- Oversee and improve client finance operations, including AP, AR, monthly close, budgeting, cash flow management, internal controls, procurement, and forecasting.
- Manage relationships with external accountants, bookkeepers, and vendors.
- Build and maintain financial models and forecasts (especially in Excel) to support strategic decision-making.
- Review financial statements and reporting packages for accuracy and insights.
- Identify process improvements, implement best practices, and help clients establish scalable financial operations.
- Design KPI dashboards and reporting frameworks for clients.
- Provide light FP&A services: budgeting, variance analysis, cost analysis, and financial planning.

**What You’ll Need**

- 5+ years of finance leadership experience, ideally leading small finance and accounting teams (5+ people).
- Strong hands-on experience with AP/AR, month-end close, financial modeling, and budgeting.
- CPA, CMA, CFA, MBA or similar professional qualifications.
- Proficiency with Excel and building complicated financial models
- Proficiency with accounting software (eg Quickbooks)
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently.
- Extremely strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Comfort operating in early-stage, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environments.

**Nice to Have**

- Exposure to startup or small business finance operations.
- Experience with financial consulting, fractional CFO work, or advisory services.
- Familiarity with AI tools or automation platforms that can improve finance workflows.
- Experience working remotely with distributed teams.

**Work Environment**

- Fully remote position.
- Flexible schedule, with at least **4 hours daily overlap with US Pacific Time business hours** Spencer works (09:00 - 21:00 PT).
- Open to global candidates, with a slight preference for time zones that easily overlap with the US.
- Compensation: **$15–$30/hour** depending on experience.
- Opportunity for meaningful impact, ownership, and learning across multiple industries and client businesses.

**How to Apply**

If this role sounds exciting to you, we’d love to hear from you! Please apply by sending the following to ----------

1. Your resume or LinkedIn profile.
2. A short note (no more than 6 sentences) sharing:
- Why you're interested in this specific finance role.
- One or two experiences that show you'd be great at it.
- A financial model you’ve built in the past (complex is better than being similar to the work you’d do with Pufink).
- A sample of your writing (a long email or memo you previously prepared is fine — don’t write anything new).
3. (Optional but appreciated) Links to anything else that helps us get to know you — personal website, portfolio, etc.

We value clear communication, thoughtful execution, and a proactive mindset, and we’re excited to grow our finance practice with someone who brings these traits to the team.