Senior Finance & Accounting Manager
About Whistic:
Whistic is an agentic risk operations platform that helps security and compliance teams assess, monitor, and manage third-party vendor risk. By combining automated assessments, continuous vendor monitoring, and compliance controls in one platform, Whistic replaces slow, manual risk processes with intelligent workflows, giving teams audit-ready visibility and letting them move faster.
We're a values-driven company: Extreme Ownership, Customer Focused, Driven by Results, and Do What's Right, Speak Up guide everything we do.
The Role:
We're hiring a Senior Finance & Accounting Manager, reporting to the CEO, to be our strategic finance partner, building models and directly influencing decisions, while owning our core accounting processes. If you want full ownership of a finance function and move easily between strategy and hands-on accounting, we'd love to hear from you. This is a fully remote role based in the U.S.
What You’ll Do:
- Own the monthly close, reconciliations, and financial statement prep, ensuring the books are accurate and audit-ready
- Manage day-to-day accounting operations including AP/AR and vendor/expense management
- Handle state and local tax compliance (sales tax, franchise tax, business registrations)
- Partner cross-functionally with Sales, RevOps, People, and Leadership to help shape key financial decisions and influence business strategy
- Build and maintain budgets & financial models
- Own cash flow visibility and monthly/quarterly forecasting to support leadership decision-making
- Prepare financial reporting and analysis for leadership and board meetings
- Identify and implement process improvements as the company scales
- Curious and proactive about using AI and modern tools to work smarter, not just harder
- Partner with the People & Culture Manager on payroll (as approver), compensation, and state/insurance administration - with Finance owning sales tax and tax account management.
What You'll Need:
- 5+ years of experience spanning both accounting and finance/FP&A
- Strong ownership of monthly close, reconciliations, tax compliance, and core accounting fundamentals
- Strong knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting standards
- Comfort operating as a lean team of one - capable of context-switching between transactional accounting work and strategic analysis
- Experience partnering directly with cross-functional teams such as Sales, RevOps, People, or GTM teams
- Strong MS Excel or Google Suite products and modeling skills
- Experience with Rillet, Rippling, Databrick a plus
- Excellent communication skills - comfortable presenting analysis and recommendations to non-finance stakeholders and leadership
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CPA or equivalent a plus but not required
Benefits:
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company paid life insurance
- Internet and wellness stipend
- Mental health benefit
- Paid parental leave
- 18 Paid Holidays
- 15 Days PTO (All available your 1st day) + 2 additional days each year of employment!
- 3 Whistic DNA Days- Company-paid "Family Day", "Self Day", & "Community Day"
- Whistic Fridays- Work ends at 3:00 PM every Friday
- A world-class culture and employee experience!
Whistic's DEIB Commitment:
Whistic is a place where you can be you.
It’s impossible to separate what you do from who you are, and we don’t want you to. In fact, we want just the opposite. When Whisticians share the richness of their experiences, personal connections are deepened, new levels of collaboration are unleashed, and our product innovation accelerates. We become unstoppable.
Whistic is committed to growing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging across three key dimensions:
- Workforce Representation: Hiring and retaining a diverse team
- Fairness: Equitable rewards, recognition, and opportunities based on merit
- Inclusive Culture: Fostering an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated