Finance Manager - FP&A & Controlling

About Dust Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it. With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done. With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast. We're serving great customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026. Dust is backed by Sequoia with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50 . What You'll Do This hire is the first dedicated FP&A and Controlling resource at Dust. The mandate is to build the financial backbone the business needs to scale: from clean accounting oversight to forward-looking models, all supercharged by AI. This is not a role where you maintain someone else's work. You build it and reinvent it along the way..   The role sits across three pillars, each roughly equal in time and importance: 1. Accounting Oversight & Controlling (~1/3) You are not the accountant booking the entries. But you own the quality of the numbers. Drive the month-end close process : partner with our external accounting firms (France & US) to ensure the monthly close is clean, on time, and decision-grade, challenge entries, review accruals, ensure period accuracy Own the accounting-to-reporting bridge : translate statutory P&L into the management reporting. Build and enforce the chart of accounts and analytical mapping to make reporting reliable and scalable Flag risks proactively : revenue recognition edge cases, deferred revenue, capitalized development costs. You stand over the logic to make sure we translate the business into trustworthy accounting inputs and financial insights 2. FP&A - Model Architecture & Business Partnering (~1/3) You are among the first persons to build FP&A at Dust. That means architecture decisions matter as much as outputs. Design and model the integrated financial model: P&L, cash flow, headcount planning, unit economics and metrics Build the annual budget process and participate to the quarterly forecast cycle and business reviews Support strategic analysis as needed: scenario modeling, unit economics, fundraising datarooms   3. AI & Automation for Finance - Dust4Dust (~1/3) It is a core part of the job. Dust transforms how work gets done and we are our first users. You will be expected to build, test, and deploy Finance agents on the Dust platform. Identify repetitive Finance workflows and redesign them with AI: AP and AR automations, reconciliations, variance commentary, reporting drafts, data validation, … Uses cases are endless Develop real convictions on what AI-augmented Finance looks like in practice Act as a pilot user and internal advocate for Dust's product, generating feedback loops between Finance and Product   What We're Looking For Experience and background: 5-7 years in Finance, with a clear arc from accounting-trained foundations toward FP&A and finance Exposure to both close/controlling work and forward-looking planning - you have done both and value both AI/SaaS company background is a plus - you understand ARR, churn, CAC, and why revenue recognition in software is not trivial Experience in a scaling environment where processes did not exist yet and you had to build them   Technical skills: Strong financial modeling: you build from scratch, not from templates Data-literate: comfortable with SQL or willing to learn, experienced with Data & BI tools (Metabase, Snowflake, or equivalent) Architect