VP of Finance

About II

Intelligent Internet is building sovereign AI from first principles. Open-source, for everyone.

Our mission is to increase humanity's intelligence. Our research, our agent, and our book The Last Economy are all part of that work. All of it open. All of it for everyone.

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We want builders who feel it too. People who ship, who work hard, who care about getting this right.

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Headquartered in London.

The Role

We’re hiring a VP of Finance for a crypto-first role: running digital-asset operations and treasury, shaping token economics and crypto/web3 financial mechanics, and leading fundraising with disclosure-grade reporting. If you’re looking to apply deep tokenomics experience in a company that takes governance, controls, and long-term value seriously, this is the seat.

Scope: Lead finance across crypto/web3, corporate, employment, fundraising, data, and IP, within a crypto x AI startup.

Objective: Build and run lightweight, automation-first finance systems that keep velocity high and risk low—while making crypto operations and reporting institutional-grade.

The Responsibilities

Finance Strategy → Business Outcomes

• Translate company strategy into quarterly finance plans with clear owners, SLAs, and decision rights.

• Track runway, time-to-decision, and control maturity, ensuring Finance actively enables execution rather than slowing it down.

FP&A and Business Partnering

• Own budgets, rolling forecasts, and scenario planning.

• Instrument real-time unit economics (CAC/LTV, payback, gross margin by product and workload, cost-to-serve, compute and other unit costs).

• Target forecast accuracy of ±5–10% on revenue and cash, and act as a hands-on partner to product, engineering, and GTM leaders.

Treasury (Fiat + Digital Assets)

• Design and operate a secure, policy-driven treasury with appropriate segregation of duties, custody, and monitoring.

• Manage liquidity, hedging, and yield within strict risk limits.

• Deliver transparent on-chain and off-chain reconciliations and reporting.

Token / Web3 & Public-Benefit Mechanics

• Advise on compliant value mechanisms where proof of public benefit mints value.

• Build disclosures, controls, and reporting suitable for UK, EU, and US, and priority markets.

• Partner closely with Legal and Compliance to ensure robustness as regulations evolve.

• Hands-on exposure to token design or crypto-adjacent financial models, particularly where incentives, disclosures, and compliance intersect.

Revenue, Pricing & RevOps

• Partner with Product and Go-To-Market on pricing and packaging for agents, APIs, and marketplace flows.

• Define and govern rules for usage, credits, incentives, and discounts. Reduce days-to-close and DSO through disciplined billing, invoicing, and collections processes.

Controllership & Reporting

• Own monthly close, consolidations, technical accounting, and audits.

• Target a day-5 close, zero material weaknesses, clean audit opinions, and a searchable, reliable source of truth for financial data.

Tax & Global Expansion

• Manage corporate tax, VAT/GST, transfer pricing, and employment tax across jurisdictions.

• Design scalable processes that enable the company to add new countries quickly, compliantly, and with minimal operational friction.

Procurement & Vendor Governance

• Implement lightweight intake, vendor tiering, and AI-assisted reviews.

• Optimise cloud, compute, data, and tooling spend, driving committed-use and architectural efficiencies in partnership with Engineering.

Investor Relations & Capital Strategy

• Own board and investor materials, metrics, and narrative.

• Support equity and token-adjacent financing where appropriate.

• Maintain a disciplined cap table and incentive design aligned to long-term value creation.

AI-First Finance Operations

• Deploy AI across close, reconciliations, anomaly detection, forecasting, and narrative generation.

• Publish simple, trusted dashboards and clearly explain the “why” behind the numbers without creating noise or unease.

• Target weekly adoption across Finance, with measurable gains in speed, accuracy, and insight quality.

People, Leadership & Operating Cadence

• Build and lead a high-performing finance team as the company scales.

• Set clear ownership, expectations, and development paths, and establish operating rhythms that balance autonomy, accountability, and pace.

Risk, Governance & Cross-Functional Enablement

• Support leadership in identifying and managing financial and operational risks without introducing unnecessary process or drag.

• Work closely with Legal, HR, and the leadership team to ensure financial guardrails, policies, and controls enable growth, compliance, and sound decision-making.

Finance Systems, Data & Decision Infrastructure

• Own the evolution of finance systems and data flows in partnership with Engineering and Data.

• Ensure financial data is accurate, auditable, and accessible, integrating seamlessly with product, analytics, and reporting platforms to support fast, confident decision-making.

The Requirements

Must Have

• 12+ years in Finance with meaningful in-house leadership (VP/Head/Director), start-up to scale-up experience.

• Built finance functions for crypto/web3 businesses and have experience in deep-tech/ AI (ideally); trusted by product and engineering.

• Owned company-level planning (OKRs ↔ budgets), board reporting, multi-entity consolidations, and audits.

• Implemented ERP + billing + data stack (e.g., NetSuite/Sage, Stripe/crypto rails, data warehouse) with measurable cycle-time and accuracy gains.

• Managed fiat and digital-asset treasury, custody policies, and on-/off-ramp controls; designed token-adjacent economics with clear disclosures.

• Shipped revenue recognition for hybrid models (IFRS 15/ASC 606), crypto accounting under IFRS/UK GAAP/US GAAP, and multi-country tax.

• Supported fundraising and investor relations; modeled scenarios and capital strategy; maintained a clean compliance/audit record.

Nice to Have

• Experience in open source technology, AI, or compute-intensive businesses, with a strong grasp of usage-based economics, GPU/compute cost structures, and margin dynamics across training and inference.

• Proven ability to build AI-enabled finance workflows, including automated close, anomaly detection, forecasting, and narrative generation using modern AI tooling.

• Strong systems and data mindset, with experience partnering closely with Engineering and Data to design finance systems, data models, and decision infrastructure.

• Trusted thought partner to founders and senior leaders, able to balance speed, ambiguity, and long-term value creation while enabling confident decision-making.

The Right Person

• Thrives in fast-paced and high-growth companies.

• Pragmatic, business-oriented, and comfortable prioritising.

• You aim high, embrace challenge, and always do what’s right.

• Strong on systems and guardrails, not interested in micromanaging product.

• Passionate about using AI tools in your own workflow and able to champion adoption across the org.

• Trusted by technical, research, ops and exec teams especially; communicates clearly in all scenarios.

• Comfortable in ambiguity and fast-moving environments.

• Tech-savvy, human first and eager to learn new technology and practices.

• Ability to work individually and collaboratively within a team environment.

• A clear and thoughtful communicator.

• Ability to contribute to building new processes and systems.

• Detail-oriented, intentional, and analytical with exceptional critical thinking/reasoning skills.

• Curious, tenacious, willing to learn, and keen to grow.

Our Culture

It's open. It's distributed. It's for everyone. Introducing the Intelligent Internet. A new paradigm for AI that democratizes access, fosters collaboration, and aligns technology with human values.

Here, everyone has ownership. You'll have space to stretch your skills, try bold ideas, and contribute to the mission from day one.

It starts with you.