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Job Summary : The SVP of Finance & Accounting serves as the financial steward of Saxbys, providing both strategic financial leadership and hands-on accounting management. This role owns the full scope of the finance function — from day-to-day cafe and HQ accounting to capital strategy, treasury, unit economics, and board- and investor-facing financial leadership — ensuring financial health, compliance, and growth across the organization. As Saxbys evolves beyond four-wall cafe economics into a multi-revenue-stream platform, this leader will bring the expertise and rigor needed to grow responsibly and translate our experiential-learning mission into a hard financial business case. This is a startup-stage build: the right person gets into the details, designs the processes the function needs, and builds a team that can execute against them at scale. The role is a direct strategic partner to the CEO/Founder and a primary financial point of contact for the Board of Directors and outside investors. What You Will Own Financial Management: Oversee all financial operations including 4-wall cafe accounting, HQ accounting, and financial reporting. Develop and implement financial policies, procedures, and controls to ensure accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency. Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the annual budgeting process for cafes and HQ departments. Create, analyze, and present financial reports and forecasts to leadership, providing actionable insights to drive business decisions. Strategic & Long-Range Planning: Develop new partnership pro formas and financial models to evaluate business opportunities, expansion initiatives, and capital investments. Lead capital allocation across competing growth paths — cafes, strategic partnerships, and future platform revenue streams — balancing risk and innovation and defending the resulting tradeoffs. Own a rolling 3–5 year financial plan and translate complex financial data into strategic recommendations for the CEO/Founder and Board. Treasury & Capital Management: Manage cash flow, liquidity, and working capital across cafe and HQ operations. Own banking relationships and credit facilities, and evaluate and execute financing strategies (debt, equity, or lease financing) needed to fund growth. Partner Unit Economics & Growth Analytics: Define and measure partner acquisition cost, lifetime value, and payback for our long-cycle, higher-ed sales motion, using cohort and location-ramp analysis. Partner with the Partnerships team to instrument clean pipeline and cost data in HubSpot (distinguishing heavy hitters, standard partners, and management-fee accounts) so unit-economics models are built on real inputs. Translate the experiential-learning mission into a financial business case that shortens the sales cycle and lowers acquisition cost. Board & Investor Relations: Serve as the primary financial point of contact for the Board of Directors and outside investors. Prepare board decks, financial packages, and periodic investor updates. Support capital raises and strategic transactions, including due diligence coordination, data room management, and cap table oversight. Tax Strategy & Compliance: Ensure adherence to accounting principles, tax regulations, and financial reporting requirements, and own proactive tax planning (entity structure, credits, and multi-state exposure) rather than compliance alone. Own the relationship with our third-party tax and audit firm, serving as the primary point of contact for engagement scope, audit timelines, and deliverables. Identify and mitigate financial risks through effective internal controls, insurance coverage, and audit procedures. Financial Systems & Technology: Own the roadmap for accounting and financial reporting systems, ensuring platforms and tools scale with the organization; partner with the Technology team where finance systems intersect with broader HQ platfo