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# Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Campfire

- **Company:** Campfire
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire/f39ed3f6-1d45-41fd-b8a7-b90c88018b2d

## Job description

## About Campfire

Campfire is a next-gen core accounting platform built for modern mid-market finance teams. We help them close fast and scale even faster. Our platform replaces outdated legacy ERPs and manual accounting processes with automation-driven solutions that simplify and accelerate finance workflows. In the past year alone, we have grown 10x, driven by strong customer demand and a product that delivers real results for accounting & finance teams. We are scaling quickly and building the future of finance by giving teams the clarity, control, and strategic visibility they need to lead with confidence.

## About the Role

We're looking for a strategic, execution-oriented CFO to lead Campfire's financial operations and help shape the company's next phase of growth. This is a seat at the leadership table — you'll partner closely with the CEO and board to drive business strategy, capital decisions, and long-term planning.

## What You'll Do

- Own the financial narrative - Serve as a key executive voice to investors, board members, partners, and the broader market, representing Campfire's vision and financial story with clarity and conviction.
- Lead financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting across the company
- Drive fundraising strategy, investor relations, and capital allocation decisions
- Build and scale the finance, accounting, and operations functions
- Partner with GTM, Product, and Engineering leaders to inform pricing, unit economics, and growth decisions
- Ensure strong financial controls, compliance, and audit readiness
- Evaluate strategic partnerships, and other corporate transactions

## What We're Looking For

- 10+ years of finance leadership experience, ideally in high-growth SaaS or enterprise software
- Prior experience as CFO or VP Finance at a venture-backed company preferred
- Track record of leading fundraising rounds (Series B and beyond) or taking a company public
- Strong communicator who can translate complex financial data into strategic insight for diverse audiences
- Operator mindset — comfortable getting into the details while keeping an eye on the big picture
- A true product champion — You'll use Campfire daily as a core part of running the finance function, and carry that firsthand experience into every external conversation, embodying what it means to be a customer and ambassador of the product you help build.
- Deep integrity and sound judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

## About Campfire

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Campfire is an AI-native Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that automates accounting workflows — including transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, revenue recognition, and reporting — for mid-market and enterprise finance teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also New York office)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John Glasgow (CEO/CFO) and Paul C Nichols (CTO) are key executives; founding team details are not publicly disclosed.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Accounting & Finance Software / Enterprise SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-size to enterprise companies (50–5,000 employees), including SaaS, usage-based, consulting, and transaction-heavy businesses
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Superpower your accounting team” – Campfire aims to multiply what finance teams can do by automating manual, repetitive tasks so they can focus on strategic business drivers rather than spreadsheets.

## Products & Services
- **Core Accounting (General Ledger)**: Multi-entity consolidation with 180+ currencies, global compliance support, and real-time sync.
- **Revenue Automation**: Revenue recognition for any billing model (SaaS, usage, etc.).
- **Close Management**: Built-in close checklists, flux analysis, account reconciliations, and autonomous reconciliation.
- **Reporting**: Real-time dashboards with drill-down to any transaction.
- **AI Assistant (Ember)**: Conversational AI that answers questions, detects anomalies, auto-categorizes transactions, performs cash forecasting, and more.
- **Integrations**: 100+ natively built integrations (e.g., Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce) plus 1,200+ granular permission controls.

All offerings are cloud-based SaaS with API endpoints for custom workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding = **$103.6M** (as of late 2025); Annual Revenue = **$3.9M** (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors**: Accel, Ribbit Capital (led Series B), Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49 (Airwallex)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+800% year-over-year** to 81 employees
  - 25 active job postings (monthly postings down 7.4% but quarterly up 525%, yearly up 1,150%)
  - Customers include Replit, Decagon, PostHog, Advisor360
  - LinkedIn followers grew +341.4% year-over-year

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native foundation**: Autonomous reconciliation, auto-categorization, anomaly detection, and conversational reporting built into the core product – not bolted on.
- **Depth for scaling**: Multi-entity, multi-currency (180+ currencies), unlimited entities, and granular permission controls ideal for global high-growth companies.
- **Integrated ecosystem**: 100+ native integrations and 1,200+ permissions, reducing manual data entry and spreadsheet reliance.
- **Domain expertise**: In-house support from accountants who have closed books themselves.
- **Enterprise readiness**: Policies, roles, approval workflows, and comprehensive compliance support.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continuing to add AI capabilities (Ember assistant, flux analysis, cash forecasting) and deepen core accounting features.
- **Global scaling**: Supporting international subsidiaries and compliance (EMEA, Australia presence) while growing headcount across sales, customer success, and engineering.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring (25+ open roles) across sales, customer success, engineering, and implementation – particularly looking for people who want “real ownership” in a hyper-growth startup.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “hyper-growth startup” where employees get “meaningful responsibility from day one.” The team includes alumni from Deloitte, PwC, NetSuite, Brex, Rippling, and other top finance/tech companies.
- **Work model**: In-office (on-site) – offices in San Francisco and New York City.
- **Notable perks**: Not detailed in search results, but the company emphasizes a driven, ownership-minded environment and the chance to “do the kind of work that moves your career forward.”
- **Engineering culture**: 13% of staff in technical roles, with a focus on building AI-first solutions. The CTO (Paul C Nichols) leads a team that includes AI engineers.

## Sources
1. [Campfire AI](https://campfire.ai/)
2. [Campfire Careers](https://campfire.ai/careers)
3. [Campfire Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire)
4. [Built In – Campfire Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/campfire)
5. [LinkedIn – Campfire Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/meetcampfire)

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