Finance Manager Part Time

**Part Time Finance Manager**:
**Start Date**:ASAP

**About Us**:KARANA is a venture-backed food start-up founded in 2018 headquartered in Sinagpore and with an office in California, USA. We are a purpose-driven company, creating plant-based meat, initially tapping the power of Jackfruit. A mighty ingredient, Jackfruit, is naturally meat-like, healthy and sustainably sourced with just a bit of processing to help farmers and the planet. We are uniquely positioned sourcing ingredients that add value across the food system from crop to table by using amazing bioavailable ingredients that contribute to people’s health, farmer’s success, and the planet. We just launched in California, after a very successful launch in Singapore and Hong Kong.

KARANA is looking for talent to join our Finance Department as a **Finance Manager **. This role will start part time but could become a full time position for the right person. KARANA is looking for an experienced finance professional who can support our finance department in two markets. You will be primarily responsible for APAC and based in Singapore.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Support finance operations in US & APAC
- Vendor lead for both APAC and US.
- Manage outsourced accountants to deliver monthly reports on time and accurately
- Weekly Report and Expenses, payments approval
- Provide financial overview and cash flow forecasts to founding team weekly
- Monitor cash balances and communicate to founders
- Monitor team spending plans and present to founders for approval
- Ownerships of reports and dashboards for founding teams
- Monthly P&L review
- Managin 409A valuation review once per year with co-founder
- Issuing Options for all new hires on Carta
- Sending monthly investor updates on Paperstreet
- Other ad-hoc administrative tasks from time-to-time

**About You**:Confident in your capabilities, looking to draw upon your skills and experience to lead and execute on a range of finance projects and ensure that strategic business goals are met. You will be a key confidant and work closely with the founders. You are a perpetual learner who finds ways to get things done and smash through barriers. We are not a large matrix organisation, so decision making is lean and fast—no micromanaging or box-ticking efforts. A lot of opportunity to grow with the company as we scale and build out the team and organisation.

You will be a help shape the business and team as we expand and grow. You will do this by diving headfirst into financial tracking, reporting challenges. Working knowledge of Singaporean accounting rules and regulations is a plus.
- **Familiarity with the following vendors a plus**:

- **US**
- Gusto
- Quickbooks
- Expensify
- **APAC**:

- Counto (custom dashboard)
- Spenmo
- Deel
- **Global**:

- Carta
- Paperstreet

**Qualifications**
- You are aligned with our mission and hungry to make a positive impact on the world
- 5-7 years of proven success in finance functions, ideally in fast paced and high performing environments
- You're highly organised, proactive, and enjoy rolling your sleeves up in a fast-paced team environment
- Superior interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally
- Data driven and analytical in your approach
- Global market experience a plus

**KARANA Perks**:

- A competitive compensation package
- Unlimited annual leave
- Laidback and fun work environment
- Opportunity to grow professionally with fast growing start-up
- First tastes of some of the most cutting-edge meats made from whole plants
- A chance to make the world a better place\