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Head of Finance & Operations - San Francisco Bay Area

Flagright· Operations
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Head of Finance & Operations responsible for Flagright’s financial, HR, and legal operations globally (US, UK, India, Singapore). Hands-on generalist role in a high-growth, in-person setting with emphasis on scaling processes, FP&A, HR, and legal operations.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare and manage investor updates, Board meetings, and monthly consolidated management accounts spanning 4 entities across US / UK / India / Singapore
  • Lead financial planning and analysis (FP&A), including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
  • Develop and maintain detailed financial models to support strategic decision-making and operational planning
  • Oversee accounts payable and enforce accounts receivable processes to maintain smooth cash flow operations
  • Collaborate with external accountants and tax experts to optimize accounting and tax strategies, ensuring compliance and efficiency
  • Implement inter-company pricing measures, including managing transfer pricing documentation and compliance
  • Oversee external auditors for a yearly audit across 4 global entities
  • Contribute to pricing and deal desk operations
  • Lead the HR function, setting clear standards for policies, execution, compliance, employee experience, and operational discipline
  • Manage and mentor the HR team, ensuring strong ownership across onboarding, offboarding, employee documentation, payroll coordination, benefits, and HR systems
  • Build scalable people processes across multiple jurisdictions, partnering with external counsel and advisors where needed
  • Partner with leadership on performance management, compensation reviews, promotions, role changes, workforce planning, and organizational design
  • Establish people dashboards, reporting cadences, and operating rhythms to give leadership visibility into headcount, hiring, retention, performance, and people risks
  • Partner with leadership and sales on commercial negotiations and MSAs, balancing speed, risk management, and business priorities
  • Liaise with external lawyers to manage contracts, mitigate risks, and ensure global compliance
  • Manage an internal legal team working across employment, commercial, corporate, insurance, regulatory, and cross-border matters

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional experience, with a solid background in Finance (must have) and HR and Legal operations (preferred) in a high-growth environment
  • Hands-on FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, including budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, variance analysis, and leadership reporting
  • Prior experience in a SaaS start-up environment (Series A to C)
  • Experience operating across multiple entities, jurisdictions, currencies, and time zones, with cross-border finance and multi-entity accounting understanding, plus HR, legal, tax, and compliance considerations
  • Strong working knowledge of SaaS business models, including ARR, retention, gross margin, CAC/payback, burn, runway, cash forecasting, and investor-facing operating metrics
  • Comfortable being strategic and hands-on, able to advise leadership while handling models, contracts, payroll issues, vendor workflows, and operational details
  • Proven people-management experience, ideally managing distributed or offshore teams (team reporting to this role is based in the Philippines)
  • Based in the Bay Area with right to work in the USA (visa sponsorship not available)

Skills

Required:FP&AFinancial ModelingAccounting & TaxHR Leadership
Nice to have:Legal Operations

Benefits

  • Health insurance through Kaiser Permanente in California
  • Equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup
  • Housing subsidy if you live within 1 mile of our office
  • Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir
  • Low-bureaucracy environment, minimal meetings, and an asynchronous communications culture
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Flagright

AI-native AML compliance platform for fintechs & banks

Flagright helps fintechs & banks monitor, screen, investigate, and report their transactions & customers against financial crime risks with a best-in-class AML compliance software. Catering to a diverse clientele across various financial sectors, we serve customers across 6 continents. Flagright is a pioneer in the application of generative AI for AML compliance operations with its AI suite, Flagright AI, delivering unmatched scalability and extreme performance. Our products are designed to help our customers scale volume without scaling headcount and grow faster.

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