About the Role
As the first finance hire, you will own finance and revenue operations, ensuring smooth daily operations and serving as the finance partner to the CEO and leadership team. You will connect contracts, CRM, billing, expenses, and the operating plan into a reliable source of truth, working across high-level planning and detailed execution.
Responsibilities
- Run day-to-day finance operations, including invoicing, AR/AP, vendor payments, expense controls, and cash visibility.
- Own the operating model, budget, cash forecast, headcount plan, and scenario analysis.
- Maintain authoritative schedules for billing, renewals, and payment terms.
- Administer sales commissions and incentive calculations accurately and transparently.
- Partner with our VP of Sales on revenue forecasting, commissions, and more.
- Partner with our external CPAs on the monthly close, taxes, and financial controls.
- Build management dashboards that give our leaders visibility into operating metrics.
- Support pricing, contract economics, international expansion, and other commercial decisions with rigorous modeling.
- Establish practical approval policies, documentation, and controls that reduce risk without slowing the company down.
Requirements
- 5+ years in startup finance, strategic finance, accounting operations, investment banking, consulting, or a related role.
- In-house startup operating experience is strongly preferred.
- Exceptional financial modeling and spreadsheet skills.
- Strong command of the three financial statements and how they connect.
- Experience owning billing, AR/AP, commissions, and other recurring financial workflows.
- Extreme attention to detail.
- Strong systems thinking.
- Clear communication with leadership and non-finance teammates.
- Comfortable operating as a team of one internally while coordinating effectively with external experts.
Skills
- QuickBooks
- Ramp
- payroll platforms
- HubSpot
- planning tools
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered.
About the Company
- Orchard is securing America’s food supply by building the AI Farmer that automates farms.
- We are the industry leader, growing rapidly, and backed by more than $25 million from leading investors.
- Our AI-powered camera systems mount to tractors and scan millions of trees, vines, and plants, capturing precise data on yield estimates, fruit size, crop health, disease, and more.
- We train edge vision AI models that analyze every plant and determine exactly what interventions and treatments it needs.
- Our technology is trusted by some of the nation’s largest farms to grow higher-quality crops while reducing chemical use and operating costs, helping them farm more profitably and sustainably.
