Finance Lead

TLDR: We’re looking for a hands-on Finance Lead to own day-to-day accounting and finance operations: from reviewing expenses, invoices, and receipts to financial reporting, forecasting, and cash & burn tracking.

About us

White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.

We’ve recently raised our Series A funding round, taking our total funding to $70M. Our investors include top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others

We process over one hundred million API calls every month

We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model

We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.

You will

Own day-to-day finance and accounting operations across different entities, with a focus on the US entity and US GAAP accounting

Own the monthly financial close and ensure our reporting and financial data are accurate and up to date

Work with external accountants, tax advisors, auditors, and other finance providers where needed

Build and maintain financial reporting that gives a clear view of revenue, expenses, cash, burn, runway, and overall financial health

Own budgeting and forecasting processes, including estimating revenue, expenses, headcount, cash needs, and runway

Build and maintain financial models to support hiring, spending, pricing, fundraising, and other strategic decisions

Help design and improve accounting and finance processes as we scale

Prepare financial information and analyses for investors, fundraising processes, board materials, and due diligence

Identify opportunities to automate repetitive finance workflows and improve the quality and speed of financial reporting

You’ll fit right in if you

You have hands-on experience with US GAAP accounting (must-have)

You have strong accounting fundamentals and are comfortable owning the financial close and financial reporting process

You can work independently and take ownership of the finance function without needing a large team around you

You have experience with accounting or finance in a multi-entity or group company setup

A big plus

CPA qualification

Experience with international accounting

Experience with financial forecasting, budgeting, cash flow planning, and burn/runway tracking

Build lightweight dashboards and internal tools when needed to make financial analysis more accessible

Comfortable building financial models from scratch and using them to answer real business questions

Experience setting up finance and accounting processes from scratch

Compensation & benefits

Competitive compensation package, including equity

Flexible time off

Health insurance

Mental health support, including coverage for therapy when you need it

401(k) retirement plan

Learning and development support for courses, conferences, and opportunities to grow your skills

All the hardware, subscriptions, tools, and services you need

Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps, Saint-Tropez, and Marbella

How we hire

Intro call (25 min)

Take-home test assignment

Final call with CEO & Head of Ops (45 min)