Financial Planning & Analysis Lead

About Blaze

Blaze is building the most complete marketing tool for teams of one to produce on-brand content in half the time and grow their businesses faster on the internet.

We're not just building a software product at Blaze—we're building a mission-critical platform that levels the playing field for entrepreneurs worldwide with AI so they can compete on the internet, win against the big guys, and control their own destinies.

Blaze customers can plan months worth of ideas, create high-quality drafts for every piece of content, and automatically schedule them to post in 60 seconds flat.

Blaze has served tens of thousands of small business owners. Now, we're growing our team on our way to a million customers plus.

That's where you come in: we're looking for a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Lead to help us chart and stay on a sustainable financial path to breakeven profitability, top-tier returns, and extraordinary business outcomes.

About the role

Reporting to our COO, you'll be responsible for building out the strategic FP&A function from the ground up.

This high-visibility role offers extensive collaboration inside and out of the company and the opportunity to shape Blaze's ambitious, creative financial strategy as we scale.

You'll be a key partner to the CEO and our leadership in strategic decision making, and to all teams in establishing metrics, building investor narratives, managing financials, and modeling and evaluating key initiatives.

What you'll do:

• Lead Planning & Forecasting: Develop and manage our monthly planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with our broader business goals.

• Own our Corporate Operating Model: Establish and maintain Blaze's comprehensive operating model with 3 financial statements (P&L, cash flow, balance sheet) to support both short-term and long-term planning.

• Financial Modeling & Analysis: Work closely with all departments to support budget management, initiative planning, headcount planning, and financial decision making.

• Revenue & Cash Flow Forecasting: Create driver-based rolling forecasts for ARR, upsell/expansion, and cash flow to ensure financial predictability and support strategic decision-making to improve business health.

• Dashboard Reporting & Stakeholder Management: Oversee the development of financial reports, dashboards, and key metrics, partnering with our analytics lead and external accounting team to ensure accurate and timely insights to help with internal management reports, board materials, and investor updates.

• FP&A Technical System Implementation: Set the vision for our systems roadmap, drive cross-functional systems at scale, and deliver process improvements.

About You

Experiences that make you stand out:

• 8+ years of experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, GTM Finance, Business Operations, investment banking, or related fields, preferably within a high-growth B2C SaaS environment, through both rapid growth and operating at scale.

• Deep understanding of B2B/Consumer SaaS businesses, metrics, and customer lifecycle for both product-led growth and seat upsell and pricing tier/upgrade motions.

• Scaling Experience: Experience scaling through exponential growth and preparing a company for IPO is a significant plus.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven track record of collaborating across teams and influencing senior leadership, investors, and stakeholders on financial strategy.

• A Track Record of Compelling Writing and Presentations, translating complex ideas or novel recommendations into simple, moving narratives that get people to yes.

Skills that make you extraordinary:

• Outstanding Technical Skills: You have natural aptitude for financial modeling, including revenue modeling, cash flow forecasting, and 3-statement modeling—including proficiency in SQL and financial planning tools.

• Analytical Rigor: You're highly analytical with a strong attention to detail and an ability to break down complex problems and communicate findings effectively.

• Structured Thinking: You're a first-principles, logical thinker who can easily break down complex problems effectively via spreadsheets.

• Hyper-ambitious Drive: You want to build something from the ground up on your own; ambiguity and open possibilities excite you.

• Fast: You get more work done faster than anyone expects, without losing a single detail.

• Growth-Oriented: You have the ability (and desire) to grow and learn as fast as the company around you is expanding.

Our Team

At Blaze, we’re looking for structured thinkers full of passion, ambition, and kindness. We’d love for you apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your experience, skills, and interests will help you stand out—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Blaze, we welcome people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. Join us.

At Blaze, we:

• Are fundamental optimists who believe we're still only at the start of the AI age.

• Go to extraordinary lengths to distinguish ourselves through world-class work.

• Prioritize quality over speed, and speed over scope.

• Desire working with deeply kind, mission-driven people.

• Strive to make the complex simple.

• Use first principles to debate ideas, test assumptions, and make decisions.

• Seek the truth by putting data above opinions.

• Assume good intent and give tactical feedback to help each other get better.

• Hold no ego—when our customers win, we all win.

As a company, we are seriously committed to your professional development and growth:

• You will set your own monthly goals aligned with our ambitious strategy

• You will have our collective support in achieving major wins—and personal coaching from your manager

• You will be able to request and manage your own budget

• You will be encouraged to take risks, try new things, and be creative with your work

• You will have many opportunities to exchange and engage in feedback

• You will be offered continual chances to stretch yourself and raise your own bar

• Helping a small company grow 30%+ month-over-month

• You will be rewarded for achieving excellence and mastery

Interviewing at Blaze

It’s our goal to provide an efficient, transparent interview experience that respects you and your time. Our roles typically have a four stage process (sometimes more) and we like to move through those as quickly as calendars allow. After submitting your application you will hear from us whether you are a strong fit for the role or not! From here you can expect:

1. An initial screen with our COO, the hiring manager

2. A technical exercise appropriate to the role

3. A leadership interview with our CEO

Your time is valuable, so we try to give you as much information as possible throughout our process to make the best decision for you. Reach out to caylynn@blaze.ai if you have any questions.