Finance Lead (FP&A)

About the role

Own the numbers behind Prior Labs. As the first dedicated finance hire, you will work with the founders to establish process and become the person leadership trusts to manage the company's financial strategy and operations.

What you'll do

• Build and own our core company financial model: revenue, costs, cash, and P&L, with annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and scenario and sensitivity analysis leadership can act on.
• Stand up our operational and SaaS metrics layer: ARR, usage, unit economics, gross margin, burn, runway, and retention, so we always know where the business stands.
• Run spend, cash discipline, and light financial controlling: budget versus actuals, vendor and cost decisions, a live cash picture, simple controls and monitoring, and early flags when we drift off plan.
• Turn financial data into decisions leadership trusts: regular reporting for our board, investors, and parent company, with the drivers explained and a clear recommendation attached.
• Be the reliable finance point of contact between a fast-moving startup and SAP's group planning cadence.
• Set up finance foundations that scale: the right tooling, clean data feeds, automation of the repetitive work, and good judgment about where AI helps in finance and where it does not.

What you'll need

• You have built and owned a core company financial model end to end for an AI lab or Deep Tech company.
• You have built a finance or FP&A function from near-zero inside a small, early-stage, ambiguous company.
• You have owned annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and budget-versus-actuals across a company and reporting directly to Founders.
• You are fluent in driver-based FP&A and comfortable building an auditable model from a messy brief.
• You understand the accounting close well enough to oversee it, and you know when speed beats rigour on a small team.
• You have good judgment about using AI and automation in finance: where they save real time, and where a human check has to stay.
• Experience coordinating an external accounting partner and running light financial controls and monitoring.

Nice to have

• A track record of board, investor, or exec reporting.
• Experience building and tracking SaaS or consumption metrics from raw data.
• Experience standing up finance tooling, automation, and processes from scratch.

What they offer

• Work closely with world-class researchers and builders on one of the hardest problems in AI.
• Opportunity to build and own finance function from the ground up in a fast-moving, ambitious team.