Lago
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing
Head of Finance
About the role
Role based in Paris, France
Your role will be to partner with the CEO on "keeping the house in order" (e.g., avoid organizational debt), "running a tight ship" (e.g., accurate reporting), and "engaging at a strategic level"with a company-wide view.
Responsibilities will include:
- Accounting: work with outside accountants (both for our TopCo in the US and our French subsidiary)
- Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) – budgets, projections etc
- Pay bills, sends invoices, reimburse employee expenses
- Overall cash management (treasury)
- Partner with the CEO on investor relations – help prepare board decks, help with fundraising (process, due diligence, etc), update the VCs
- Venture debt and relationship with banks
- Partner with the sales team: manage revenue, pays sales commissions etc.
- Help with options plans, 409(a)
- Risk control: D&O, insurance
- Ad hoc projects: analytics (tracking KPIs and OKRs), legal (contract review), operations (vendor management, lease management etc.)
The person we are looking for:
- Must-have: 2+ years of experience in a similar role in a startup, after having spent 2-3+ years in management consulting, audit, or investment banking
This role has the potential to expand to a wide range of responsibilities within the company.
About Lago
Lago is the open-source platform that helps engineers build better monetization systems. They enable software teams to build customizable and scalable usage metering, subscription management, billing, invoicing, and payment systems.
Lago is the leader of their category on Github (5k+ stars), won « Product of the month » on ProductHunt, and is used by leading companies such as Mistral, Together, Swan, Juni, Fintecture, JuliaHub, Regate, Flipside Crypto, Unifonic, Vida.id , Bureau.id, Sortium.
Lago’s founding team had previously built and scaled the home-grown monetization system of fintech unicorn Qonto from pre-launch to series D.
Our Values
- Ambition: we aim big, because otherwise, where is the fun?
- Progress: we care more about the grit, the steep learning curve, the resilience and creativity muscles, than the current status or where you come from.
- Humble confidence: we know our strengths and always strive for excellence, but we also know there’s so much we don’t know yet
- Pay it forward: we’ve all started somewhere, people gave us a hand when we needed one, we don’t forget this, and reinforce this positive cycle
- Not taking ourselves too seriously: we are ambitious, restless learners and hustlers, but at the end of the day, our health (physical and mental), and our loved ones are what matter the most.
