AI-Driven Finance Manager — Remote, Path to CFO, High Growth

<div><p><strong>WHO WE ARE</strong></p><p>Decentralized Masters is a profitable, bootstrapped DeFi education company. In just 4 years, we’ve grown from 0 to 150 people with $50M in ARR, 4,500+ Members and scaling toward $75-100M revenue in 2026. We operate across multiple jurisdictions (mainly the UAE&the US) and have ambitious plans to expand into new, complementary business lines this year. We move at an uncomfortable pace, but that is exactly the way we like it.</p><p>Our Members love the product, and we’ve built a top-tier sales, marketing, and product team to match.</p><p>Now it’s time to build the foundation that supports the next phase of exponential growth, and that starts with a world-class finance function.</p><p><strong>THE OPPORTUNITY</strong></p><p>We require a highly competent, experienced and intelligent right-hand: someone who can manage, motivate, and develop a junior finance team while helping to shape a forward-thinking, AI-driven finance function from the ground up.</p><p>This is not a role for someone set in their ways. You’ll be working alongside a young, sharp, and ambitious C-suite that moves fast, thinks differently, and expects the same from you.</p><p><strong>THE ROLE</strong></p><p>As Finance Manager, you’ll own the day-to-day financial operations, managing the accounting team, keeping the books clean and accurate, timely, and insight-ready, and ensuring the function runs like clockwork. You are the operational engine that frees the CFOO to focus on strategy and growth.</p><p>If you’re energized by building something, thrive in a high-growth environment, embrace the power of AI, and believe finance should be a competitive advantage, this is your moment.</p><p><strong>WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING</strong></p><p><strong>Financial Operations&Reporting</strong></p><p>• Lead the implementation of a new accounting system and establish robust finance processes from the ground up</p><p>• Re-engineer current workflows — including payroll — using automation and AI, targeting a 50% reduction in time spent on manual and repetitive tasks</p><p>• Own the daily cash flow reporting and monthly close process end-to-end, working directly with the Financial Controller and Accounting&Payroll Specialist to ensure figures are always accurate</p><p>• Prepare monthly management accounts, P&L variance analysis, and departmental budget reports for CFOO review</p><p>• Maintain and strengthen internal controls, ensuring audit-ready books across all entities</p><p>• Develop defensible departmental P&Ls and manage the chart of accounts, ensuring consistency across all business units (Education, Newsletter, SaaS, Renewals)</p><p><strong>Revenue Accounting&Subscription Finance</strong></p><p>• Manage deferred revenue schedules across high-ticket products ($5K–$30K), payment plans, and subscription products</p><p>• Ensure accurate revenue recognition across all product types in line with IFRS and US GAAP</p><p>• Track and report on renewal rates, churn, and recurring revenue pipelines</p><p>• Reconcile merchant accounts, payment processors, and banking across multi-entity structures</p><p>• Develop a weekly performance pack focused on key underlying business drivers</p><p><strong>Budgeting&Forecasting Support</strong></p><p>• Support the CFOO in building and maintaining rolling financial models (monthly, quarterly, annual)</p><p>• Maintain departmental budget trackers and proactively flag variances to the CFOO</p><p>• Assist with headcount planning and cost center reporting</p><p>• Contribute to 6–12-month cash flow forecasting</p><p>• Contribute to cost optimization projects across the business</p><p><strong>Team Leadership</strong></p><p>• Directly manage the Financial Controller and Accounting&Payroll Specialist</p><p>• Ensure timely and accurate delivery across payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and reconciliations</p><p>• Develop and document SOPs for all core accounting and finance processes</p><p>• Drive the team from inconsistent, messy reporting to clean, standardised outputs</p><p><strong>Systems&Compliance</strong></p><p>• Own the accounting system</p><p>• Track corporate filing deadlines and compliance obligations across jurisdictions (UAE, US)</p><p>• Support the CFOO in managing external audit and tax advisor relationships</p><p>• Assist with crypto transaction reconciliation and treasury reporting</p><p><strong>WHAT YOU MUST BRING</strong></p><p><strong>Required Experience</strong></p><p>• 5–10 years in hands-on finance or accounting roles, with at least 5+ years leading a team and full end-to-end ownership of monthly financial statements in a managerial capacity</p><p>• Hands-on experience managing a finance/accounting team</p><p>• Strong working knowledge of deferred revenue, subscription accounting, crypto accounting, and multi-entity consolidation</p><p>• Experience with high-volume merchant account reconciliation and payment processors</p><p>• Multi-jurisdic