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Head of Finance & Strategy

💰 $200 - $80,000 📅 04/03/2024

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Job Description

**About Waverider:**
Waverider is a mental health startup that currently offers a robust symptom-
tracking tool for providers and clients to use in therapy to better visualize
progress and pinpoint insights and treatment efficacy. Our vision is to build
a holistic platform that empowers people living with bipolar disorder to live
full, uninterrupted lives by offering self-awarness tracking and episodic
prediction, certified peer and community support, curated educational content,
self-guided skills,exercises and tools, crisisand safety planning, and care
team/cargeiver and family integration.

**About the Job:**
This is a highly collaborative, cross-functional role in which the candidate
will need to partner closely with the product lead, clinical lead, and our CEO
to shape financial strategy and drive informed decision-making. Their
expertise in equity management, financial modeling, contract negotiation, and
market analysis will contribute to the company's financial success and
sustainable growth.
We are looking for someone who excels in analytical problem-solving and
executive communications. They will need to build deep business expertise,
tackle interesting and complex financial problems, formulate frameworks and
KPIs to assess health and trajectory, and advise company leadership and day-
to-day strategic decisions in their functional area. We are gearing up to
fundraise, and this role will take the lead in guiding the team to achieve a
successful fundraising strategy.

**Responsibilities:**

* Manage day-to-day business and financial operations such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, expense management, cash flow management, etc
* Engage in contract review processes, ensuring favorable terms, risk mitigation, and compliance with legal and regulatory requirement
* Conduct financial analyses and utilize various valuation methods to assess the company's worth and inform strategic decision-making
* Develop and refine pricing strategies based on market dynamics, cost structures, competitive analysis, and customer segmentation
* Create sophisticated financial models to simulate scenarios and forecast the financial impact of pricing changes on revenue, profitability, and market share
* Collaborate with executive leadership to formulate effective financing strategies, optimizing the company's capital structure and funding sources
* Recommend strategic initiatives based on market analysis, ensuring the company remains competitive and adaptable to changing market conditions
* Conduct detailed cost analysis across departments, identifying areas for cost reduction and operational efficiency improvements

**Requirements:**

* Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or similar
* At least 5+ years of experience working in a startup finance-related field
* Strong understanding of the US healthcare landscape, including Medicare systems, healthcare purchasing strategies, and budget cycles
* Exceptionally strong financial and modeling abilities, with a track record of identifying insights from financial information and translating them into business analytics and recommendations
* Experience in identifying improvement opportunities and implementing best practices to enhance financial and business operations
* Strong verbal communication skills
* Excited about working at an early-stage company and comfortable with ambiguity
* Ability to work well in a team environment as well as independently, handle multiple tasks with deadlines and pressure
* A desire for personal and professional growth
* Preferred startup experience
* Bonus points: Digital health and/or SaaS experience

**Benefits:**

* Fully Remote
* Unlimited PTO, ensuring you take vacations as you need
* Stock options

Waverider focuses on Health and Wellness, Mobile Application, and Mental
Health. Their company has offices in New York City. They have a small team
that's between 1-10 employees.

You can view their website at <https://www.waverider.io/>