Finance Manager
Location: Remote (Europe or US East Coast) · Full-time
ABOUT POOLSIDE
In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this. They will create powerful economic engines. They will obsess over the success of their users and customers.
Poolside exists to be this company: to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress. We believe the fastest way to reach AGI lies in accelerating software development itself, by reshaping the developer experience with agentic systems, coding assistants, and the frontier models that power them. We deploy these systems directly into the development environments of security-conscious enterprises.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
We were founded in the US and have our home there, but our team is distributed across Europe and North America. We get our fix of in-person collaboration together each month for a week, usually in London and sometimes in other countries. We also do longer off-sites once a year.
Our team is a multidisciplinary blend of research, engineering, and business experts. What unites us is our deep care for what we build together. We're in a race that requires hard work, intellectual curiosity, and obsession; to balance this intensity, we've assembled a team of low ego and kind-hearted individuals who have built the special culture Poolside has. By building collaboratively and with intention, we create a compounding effect that moves the entire company forward towards our mission: reaching AGI through intelligence systems built for software development.
Our People, Finance & Operations team is not an overhead team. We're commercially oriented and deliver products where Poolside is our customer and our team are our users. On the front end, we care about the experience: we design processes and choose tools that are easy to use and boost productivity and collaboration. On the back end, we're a highly knowledgeable team that prioritises automation and builds for scale, and we keep improving our processes, tools and materials as we grow, guided by the team's feedback and data.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're looking for a Finance Manager who combines US GAAP expertise with a builder's mindset.
Few finance roles offer this much exposure this early, or let you climb the learning curve this fast. As you demonstrate precision, ownership and execution, you'll progressively take on strategic topics such as equity management, corporate structure and corporate governance.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
You'll own the accuracy of our financial information across an international, multi-entity group, and you'll use AI every day to redesign how finance work gets done.
Accounting, reporting & audit
The accuracy of our financial information, including complex transactions such as intercompany and consolidation
A timely monthly close, and internal and external reporting
All technical accounting matters under US GAAP, and a clean, fast audit process
Statutory requirements and compliance across all entities
Financial operations, systems & AI enablement
Financial operations, including bill and payroll payments, cash management and treasury
Relationships with our external accountants, auditors and tax advisors
Our financial systems stack: NetSuite, Ramp, Gusto, Payfit, Remote, Perk and others
Upgrading our workflows and procedures with agents and MCPs to improve accuracy and efficiency
Tax & investor relations
Optimising US and international tax matters, including the tax impact of management decisions