Head of Finance - SigNoz

About SigNoz

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform that helps modern engineering teams monitor, debug, and optimize their applications with deep visibility into metrics, traces, and logs — all in one place. We're built natively on OpenTelemetry and offer both self-hosted and cloud options, so teams can run observability the way they want, without vendor lock-in.

We are growing fast and building core developer infra products:

• 32,000+ GitHub stars
• 1,000+ customers
• 8,000+ members in our Slack community

Role: Head of Finance

We're looking for a Head of Finance to build and own the finance function end-to-end.

Today we're at meaningful revenue scale with a finance setup that got us here but won't get us to the next stage. Our books are accurate but slow. We can tell you our blended gross margin — we can't yet tell you which customer cohorts, plans, and workloads are actually profitable. That matters more for us than for most SaaS companies: we run petabyte-scale infrastructure, so compute and storage cost per customer is our margin story.

You'll report to the CEO, own everything from monthly close to the due-diligence data room, and partner closely with engineering on the cost side of the business.

This is a build role. Real revenue, incomplete infrastructure, and you'll be constructing systems while the numbers keep moving.

What you'll work on

• Controllership: Monthly close in under 15 days, revenue recognition for usage-based and contracted plans, statutory audit, AR and collections
• Multi-Entity Finance: Manage US and India entities — intercompany, transfer pricing, consolidation
• Compliance: GST, TDS, ROC/MCA, FEMA and RBI filings, ESOP administration, and perquisite tax
• Gross Margin Engineering: Partnering with the platform team on infra spend, cloud commitments, and cost per ingested GB
• FP&A: Annual operating plan, rolling forecast built from operating drivers, MIS that functional leaders act on
• Cash & Treasury: 13-week cash flow, runway, USD/INR exposure, banking, and surplus deployment
• Systems & Automation: Getting off spreadsheets — ERP, billing ops, expense management, procurement approvals, internal controls
• Team Building: Building a small, high-leverage finance team as the workload grows

What will make you successful

• CA with 8–12 years post-qualification experience
• You have personally owned a monthly close and a statutory audit — owned, not supervised
• You've built a financial model from operating drivers, been wrong in public about it, and can talk about what you learned
• Working fluency in Indian startup compliance: GST, TDS, ROC, FEMA, ESOP taxation
• Comfortable with messy, incomplete data and willing to ship a defensible answer before data is perfect
• Strong communication — can explain a margin problem to an engineer and a burn scenario to a board member in the same week
• Ability to debate with leadership using data while maintaining strong working relationships

Nice-to-haves

• Big 4 audit or TAS experience early on, followed by operational years in a funded startup
• Currently #2 in finance at a Series B/C company and ready to run the function
• Multi-entity experience, especially US–India corporate structures
• SaaS or usage-based billing revenue recognition experience
• Direct experience going through a venture fundraise

A few things we'll be straight about

• Roughly 40% of year one is unglamorous: GST reconciliations, audit queries, chasing collections. If you only want strategic finance, you'll be restless here for a while.
• You'll find things that are wrong. We'd rather you find them than an auditor or an investor.

Why you'll love working at SigNoz

• Build a finance function from scratch at a company with real revenue and momentum
• Huge scope and ownership — own the number, the narrative, and the systems behind both
• Work on a globally used open-source project that engineers love
• Remote-first, async-friendly culture
• A finance problem that's genuinely interesting: open-source distribution, usage-based economics, and infrastructure at petabyte scale