Company Overview: At Praetorian, we are bringing together the world's brightest minds in pursuit of solving the cybersecurity problem by reducing the friction of security and enabling the next wave of technological innovation. From projects that range from cryptocurrency exchanges to autonomous vehicles and from medical device platforms to space telescopes, we use a first-principles approach and leverage both expertise and engineering to help secure our customers.

Career opportunity:

• Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
• Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
• Work with prominent clients and help them solve hard security problems
• Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has a real impact
• Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move

Core responsibilities:

• Coordinates the preparation and presentation of financial statements and risk analysis to the VP, Operations.
• Owns the company ledger and works directly with the VP, Operations to formulate budgets and investigates all material favorable and unfavorable variances.
• Ensures all financial processes align with GAAP and state and federal regulatory requirements and professional standards.
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of the accounting department and ensures that all major projects, month-end, and year-end reports are completed accurately and on time.
• Proactively analyzes financial data and creates reports for management, stakeholders, and external parties, such as vendors or lenders.
• Maintain accurate and complete financial records and acts as the primary point of contact to external auditors and tax preparers, ultimately responsible for all PBC deliverables.
• Develops new internal control guidelines, policies, and procedures for all accounting processes across the board from cash and credit management to foreign currency translation.
• Has the ability to drive the team’s performance by identifying and selecting talented individuals in the hiring process as well as drive promotion readiness by clarifying expectations, setting objectives, identifying goals, providing actionable feedback, and evaluating results.
• Demonstrated the ability to effectively coach direct reports to find solutions to challenges encountered along with the ability to drive retention by creating an environment that fosters high eNPS scores.
• Demonstrate ownership in all domain areas in terms of expertise and maintaining best practices through process refreshes, internal control design, and new tooling with an ability to rally adoption across the team.

Desired qualifications:

• CPA required
• Advanced degree in Accounting, in addition to a Bachelor’s degree
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience, including people management
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP
• Strong knowledge of accounting systems, expense software, MS Excel, revenue recognition, purchasing, and reporting
• Prior start-up experience is preferred
• Experience with managing outsourced contractors, consultants, and service providers
• Experience with Quickbooks and Commercial Banking

Additional +1 qualifications:

• Proven track record of designing and implementing accounting processes, policies, procedures, and documentation and reporting
• Experience with building and effectively managing an accounting team
• Experience supporting multiple business-unit P&Ls and cost accounting allocations
• Experience with Expensify, Mavenlink, Tableau, Carta, and Salesforce

Desired behaviors:

• Value alignment with Praetorian's core values
• You understand the difference between being efficient and being effective, the theory of constraints, and radical focus. To be efficient means doing things right. To be effective means doing the right things. To maximize impact, the individual doesn't just work on things but works on the right things.
• You have the ability to deconstruct a problem into an executable action plan for yourself and other stakeholders.
• You think about and articulate problems in terms of solutions.
• Problem-solving experience and ability to translate such skills to solve and think through complex issues and process improvements
• Excellent and effective written and verbal communication skills as well as good listening skills and the tact to know when to push for critical changes
• Lead by example and drives performance with an aim of continuous improvement
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment

Compensation & Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary
• Employee stock option plan
• Annual budget for training, certifications, and conferences
• 90% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on health insurance premiums
• 100% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on dental and vision insurance premiums
• 4% company 401K matching vested immediately 
• 6-16 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave

Targeted Base Salary: $120,000 - $150,000