The metrics a growing finance function is judged on
Definitions are the easy half. The harder question is who owns each number, what an investor will ask about it, and what the answer says about the level of finance hire the business actually needs.
The questions finance leaders ask
3 guidesGrowth rate plus profit margin, on your own numbers. No standard defines it and no auditor signs it off, which means whoever picks the inputs owns whether the score is honest.
Read the full guideTwo bank balances, a three month average, and the financing events stripped out. The version founders get wrong is the one that holds runway flat while the hiring plan keeps going.
Read the full guideThe stage bands I work to: a first finance hire around 10 to 20 people, a first CFO nearer 50 to 70 heads, and the business models that move both.
Read the full guideEvery guide in startup finance metrics
15 guidesThe full set, 15 guides. Each one is written from the recruiter's seat, for the Australian market.
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