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Chief Financial Officer

SerpApi· Finance
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Austin, TX$300k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Executive leadership role responsible for building and leading SerpApi's financial infrastructure, reporting, planning, and capital strategy to support growth as a profitable private technology company.

Responsibilities

  • Own SerpApi’s accounting, finance, budgeting, forecasting, tax, reporting, and strategic finance functions, including management of a 3-person finance and accounting team.
  • Build scalable financial systems, reporting processes, and internal controls for a profitable, growing technology company.
  • Lead budgeting, forecasting, cash planning, financial modeling, and performance reporting.
  • Partner with the CEO and leadership team on capital allocation, pricing, margins, hiring plans, vendor spend, legal spend, and long-term strategy.
  • Advise on long-term capital strategy, including continued independent growth, future private investment, debt or equity financing, strategic partnerships, M&A, and eventual public-company readiness.
  • Build the financial reporting, controls, forecasting, and diligence readiness needed to keep those strategic paths available.
  • Prepare clear financial materials for leadership, investors, lenders, auditors, advisors, and strategic counterparties when needed.
  • Manage tax planning, tax reporting, franchise tax filings, and relationships with outside tax advisors.
  • Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop the finance and accounting team while building clearer processes, stronger reporting, and a better operating cadence.
  • Improve the finance function while preserving SerpApi’s high-trust, transparent, and low-bureaucracy culture.

Qualifications

  • Experience as a CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, Head of Finance, investment banker, strategic finance leader, or capital markets professional.
  • Experience with public or private investment, including investor relations, equity or debt financing, M&A, growth equity, venture capital, private capital, or IPO/public-company readiness.
  • Strong understanding of financial reporting, accounting operations, tax, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, and audit readiness.
  • Experience in high-growth technology, SaaS, API, AI, data infrastructure, developer tools, or usage-based business models.
  • Ability to turn financial data into clear recommendations for founders and operators.
  • Strong judgment, high ownership, and comfort building inside a lean company.
  • Willingness to do both strategic executive work and hands-on operating work.
  • Clear written communication and strong async collaboration skills.

Skills

Required:Financial leadershipCapital strategyFinancial planning and analysisInternal controls & audit readiness
Nice to have:Regulatory and tax

Benefits

  • High compensation, bonuses, and career opportunities across the globe.
  • Profit shares for all full-time team members.
  • Internal career paths, training, and toolings (up to 50% reimbursement for software, hardware, subscriptions, and co-working space).
  • Open Books with quarterly and annual reports (P&L, expenses).
  • Public roadmap publicly accessible (excluding confidential issues).
  • Internal trust with analytics, customer interactions, hiring processes, strategies, marketing, and other data.
Last updated Jul 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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