Finance Manager / Controller

Los Angeles or Remote within the US

Passes is a leading platform dedicated to empowering creators and fostering meaningful connections with their audiences, providing innovative solutions that help creators grow and thrive in the digital landscape.

Passes is seeking a dynamic, ownership-minded Finance Manager to lead financial operations. This person doesn't need the most senior title on paper, but they need to be comfortable owning the entire finance function, from day-to-day operations to strategic financial planning, and should be highly fluent with AI tools like Claude to operate at a more senior level than years of experience alone would suggest.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Leadership
• Own all financial operations: budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and analysis
• Manage payroll (we use Rippling) and day-to-day financial operations
• Own headcount cost modeling and understand the fully-loaded cost of each role
• Own PNL reporting and present regular financial updates to leadership
• Monitor and manage cash flow and efficient use of company resources
• Manage budget tracking via Ramp for employee spend, flagging out-of-policy transactions
• Compliance
• Ensure financial compliance across the company, including tax filings, GAAP-aligned reporting, and audit readiness
• Implement internal controls and financial policies
• Stay current on payments compliance requirements as our payments platform product scales
• Payments & Technical Systems
• Work hands-on in Passes' proprietary system and in Mercury for manual payouts, vendor invoicing, and general payments
• Support financial operations for our our payments platform product, partnering closely with the technical team on how payment flows and manual interventions affect the books
• Sales Compensation
• Partner with the Head of People on commission structures, payout modeling, and compensation benchmarking for the sales team
• Strategic & Risk
• Bring exposure to fundraising and M&A dynamics; comfortable in a startup environment where these conversations are part of the territory
• Identify and mitigate financial risk
• Our Stack
• : Mercury, Ramp, Rippling, Claude, Microsoft Office (excel), Google Suite

Qualifications

• 2-6+ years of experience in finance roles (flexibility for less experienced candidates with an exceptional academic or professional background)
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
• Strong fluency with AI tools, particularly Claude, is a hard requirement
• Comfortable owning a full department with limited senior backup
• Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment