Finance Manager - FP&A & Controlling

What You'll Do

This hire is the first dedicated FP&A and Controlling resource at Dust. The mandate is to build the financial backbone the business needs to scale: from clean accounting oversight to forward‑looking models, all supercharged by AI. You will own the responsibility across three pillars, each roughly one‑third of your time.

1. Accounting Oversight & Controlling (~1/3)

• Drive the month‑end close process: partner with external accounting firms (France & US) to ensure the monthly close is clean, on time, and decision‑grade; challenge entries; review accruals; ensure period accuracy.
• Own the accounting‑to‑reporting bridge: translate statutory P&L into the management reporting; build and enforce the chart of accounts and analytical mapping to make reporting reliable and scalable.
• Flag risks proactively: revenue recognition edge cases, deferred revenue, capitalized development costs; oversee logic to translate the business into trustworthy accounting inputs and financial insights.

2. FP&A – Model Architecture & Business Partnering (~1/3)

• Design and model the integrated financial model: P&L, cash flow, headcount planning, unit economics and metrics.
• Build the annual budget process and participate in the quarterly forecast cycle and business reviews.
• Support strategic analysis as needed: scenario modeling, unit economics, fundraising data‑rooms.

3. AI & Automation for Finance – Dust4Dust (~1/3)

• Identify repetitive finance workflows and redesign them with AI: AP and AR automations, reconciliations, variance commentary, reporting drafts, data validation, and other use cases.
• Develop real convictions on what AI‑augmented finance looks like in practice.
• Act as a pilot user and internal advocate for Dust’s product, generating feedback loops between finance and product.

What We're Looking For

Experience and Background

• 5‑7 years in finance, with a clear arc from accounting‑trained foundations toward FP&A and finance.
• Exposure to both close/controlling work and forward‑looking planning; you have done both and value both.
• AI/SaaS company background is a plus – you understand ARR, churn, CAC, and why revenue recognition in software is not trivial.
• Experience in a scaling environment where processes did not exist yet and you had to build them.

Technical Skills

• Strong financial modeling: build from scratch, not from templates.
• Data‑literate: comfortable with SQL or willing to learn; experienced with data & BI tools (Metabase, Snowflake, or equivalent).
• Architecture‑minded: when you build a model, a reporting structure, or a process, you ask “will this still work at 3x the complexity?” Data flows, model logic, and reporting hierarchies should feel like systems design decisions.

Mindset

• Automation‑obsessed: your default reaction to a recurring task is “how do I make this run itself.”
• Builder mentality: energized by the blank page, not intimidated by it.
• Communication: you can explain a P&L variance to a non‑finance person and know what they need to see versus what stays in the model.
• Business enabler: you see finance as a function that makes the business move faster and smarter – not one that slows it down with process for process’s sake. You earn trust with business leaders by showing up with options while never losing sight of controls and rigor that protect the company long‑term.
• Intellectual curiosity about AI: you don’t need to be a technologist or engineer, but you have a genuine interest.

Why Join

• Build from scratch: the finance function at Dust is being designed now. Your fingerprints will shape the architecture for years.
• AI‑first by default: you will use and shape the product you work for, every day.
• Scale trajectory: Dust is growing fast. This role grows with it, both in scope and seniority.

Location

We are prioritizing building our team with an in‑person culture at our offices in Paris and San Francisco, because we value the magic that happens when talented people work closely together.