Vice President of Finance

Join Exa, a rapidly growing technology company, as the Vice President of Finance. In this key leadership role, you will drive financial strategy, operational rigor, and business insight across the organization. You will build the finance function from the ground up, establish internal controls and processes, and own financial planning and analysis. You will also serve as a strategic partner to the leadership team on all financial decisions and own investor reporting and board communications. This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic thinker with strong leadership capabilities and exceptional financial acumen.

• Establish internal controls, systems, and processes to support scale and audit readiness, and bring core accounting and finance operations in-house.
• Build and own financial models and forecasting suited to a consumption-based API business, and own company-wide budgeting and scenario planning.
• Serve as a key strategic partner to the leadership team on all financial decisions, and partner with GTM on pricing, packaging, and strategic deal-making.
• Experience leading institutional fundraising
• Hands-on experience managing compute costs in an infrastructure, AI, or usage-based business
• Operator mentality: moves fast, builds from scratch, and thrives in ambiguity
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
• Strong commercial instincts - ability to partner closely with GTM leadership on revenue strategy, pricing, and unit economics
• 8 - 15 years of finance experience, with meaningful time at a high-growth technology company
• Low ego, high accountability - a collaborator who earns trust through execution
• Exceptional communicator - concise, direct, and able to distill complex financial data into clear executive and board-level insights
• Track record building a finance function at a scaling startup - you’ve seen what great looks like and how to build it
• Strategic finance background: IB, PE, venture capital, or growth-stage operator experience
• Deep fluency in financial modeling and FP&A for API/consumption-based business models