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# Finance Manager - Accounting & FP&A at 10a Labs

- **Company:** 10a Labs
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/10alabs/jobs/4336263009

## Job description

About 10a Labs: 10a Labs is the safety and threat-intelligence layer trusted by frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms. Our adversarial red teaming, model evaluations, and intelligence collection enable engineering, safety, and security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and deploy AI systems safely.

Finance Manager - Accounting & FP&A

## About the Role

We're seeking an experienced Finance Manager to own and continuously improve our financial planning, accounting operations, and strategic finance capabilities. This individual will serve as the operational lead for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, cash management, and business planning while partnering closely with leadership, department heads, external accounting partners, and other cross-functional teams.

You'll be responsible for ensuring the organization maintains accurate financial reporting while providing the insights, forecasting, and strategic guidance needed to support rapid company growth. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who enjoys building scalable financial processes, translating complex financial data into actionable business insights, and helping leadership make informed decisions.

## What You'll Do

- Own the company's budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes.
- Develop and maintain financial models supporting strategic planning, hiring, investments, and operational decision-making.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting packages, including variance analyses and executive dashboards.
- Partner with department leaders to develop budgets, monitor spending, and improve financial visibility across the organization.
- Own cash flow forecasting and help optimize liquidity and working capital management.
- Partner with external accounting firms to oversee month-end and year-end close activities, ensuring accurate financial reporting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Develop, document, and continuously improve financial policies, processes, and internal controls.
- Support annual audits, tax filings, and other financial compliance requirements.
- Build financial analyses and business cases to support strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, and operational investments.
- Assist with board reporting, fundraising activities, financial due diligence, and investor materials as needed.
- Evaluate financial and operational performance, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Develop executive dashboards and key performance indicators to measure business performance.
- Identify opportunities to automate financial reporting and improve operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with leadership across the organization to support informed, data-driven decision making.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in finance, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), accounting, corporate finance, or a related discipline.
- CPA strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and financial statement analysis.
- Demonstrated experience owning budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes.
- Advanced financial modeling skills using Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets.
- Experience preparing executive-level financial reporting and business performance analyses.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with business leaders to support strategic decision making.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

## Preferred Qualifications

- MBA, or other relevant professional certification.
- Experience supporting venture-backed startups or high-growth technology companies.
- Experience supporting fundraising, board reporting, or investor relations.
- Experience working with ERP systems and financial planning software.
- Experience improving financial reporting processes through automation or systems implementation.
- Familiarity with SaaS financial metrics, subscription revenue, or technology company finance.

We're Looking For Someone Who Is

- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
- Comfortable owning financial operations with minimal oversight.
- Analytical and naturally curious about business performance.
- Proactive and able to identify financial risks and opportunities before they become problems.
- Practical and solutions-oriented when balancing financial discipline with business growth.
- Able to influence cross-functional teams and build strong working relationships.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.
- Excited to help build and scale financial operations alongside a rapidly growing company.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Salary Range: $115K-$150K, depending on experience and location
- Bonus: Performance-based annual bonus
- Professional Development: Support for conferences, continuing education, and professional certifications
- Work Environment: Fully remote, U.S.-based
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Time Off: Generous PTO and paid holiday schedule
- Retirement: 401(k) plan

## About 10a Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: 10a Labs is an applied research and technology company providing AI security, threat intelligence, and independent safety evaluations for frontier AI models and major technology platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, D.C., United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Bobby McKenzie (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Security & Safety, Threat Intelligence, Research Services
- **Target customers**: Frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "The safety and threat-intelligence layer trusted by frontier AI labs... enabling engineering, safety, and security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and deploy AI systems safely."

## Products & Services
- **Model Evaluations & Red Teaming**: Independent safety evaluations for frontier AI models, built for EU AI Act compliance and regulatory readiness. Includes scaled red teaming technology stress-testing generative and agentic AI systems against high-priority threats (CBRNE, Cyber Harms, Data Exfiltration, Model Distillation, Terrorism, Fraud, and more).
- **Threat Intelligence (Scout)**: Real-time monitoring for emerging threats to frontier AI systems, with proprietary threat intelligence delivered via API. Covers malicious tooling, novel abuse patterns, unauthorized access pathways, credential resale, jailbreaks, and dark web monitoring.
- **Model Defense & Integrity (Spartan)**: Advanced R&D in agentic AI systems, ML and RL model-distillation risks, and multimodal adversarial defenses to strengthen AI security and robustness.
- **Data Center Risk Analysis**: Assessment of risks to data centers stemming from geopolitical, regulatory, jurisdictional, and operational challenges.
- **Classification System**: A proprietary production ML pipeline with datasets and taxonomies informed by deep subject-matter expertise to detect emerging abuse patterns across text and other modalities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of approximately 36 employees (as of mid-2025), with strong growth (+172.2% year-over-year).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clients include frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms. Alumni have gone on to OpenAI, Microsoft, Verizon, and other tech leaders. Talent sourced from organizations like the U.S. Department of State, Columbia SIPA, and the United Nations University.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+172.2% YoY), 32 active job postings in mid-2025, quarterly job posting growth of +166.7% and yearly growth of +3100.0%, indicating aggressive expansion across multiple departments (Research, Engineering, Threat Investigation, Data, Operations).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialized Focus**: A rare company fully dedicated to AI safety, security, and threat intelligence for frontier models, serving as an independent, expert safety layer.
- **Deep Expertise**: Combines subject-matter expertise (e.g., CBRNE, cyber, terrorism) with proprietary ML pipelines and red teaming technology.
- **Trusted Client Base**: Serves the most advanced AI labs and largest tech platforms, providing a unique vantage point on emerging threats.
- **Regulatory Readiness**: Built to help clients comply with frameworks like the EU AI Act, positioning them as a critical partner in the evolving regulatory landscape.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, research, threat investigation, and operations to expand capacity.
- **Advancing R&D**: Deepening research into agentic AI risks, model distillation, and multimodal adversarial defenses.
- **Global Expansion**: Posting roles in multiple regions (US, UK, Australia, France), indicating international growth.
- **Product Development**: Continuing to build out their suite of safety, intelligence, and evaluation products (Scout, Spartan, Classification System).

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Mission**: Work directly on ensuring the safe deployment of the world's most advanced AI systems, addressing critical security and societal risks.
- **Compelling Compensation**: Salary ranges for technical roles are highly competitive (e.g., $255K–$405K + Equity for exceptional engineers, per a recent hiring post).
- **Rapid Growth Environment**: Join a company in a strong growth phase (+172% headcount growth), offering significant opportunities for impact and career advancement.
- **On-Site Collaborative Culture**: While some roles are remote, many positions are in-office (Washington D.C., San Francisco, London), emphasizing a collaborative, hands-on work environment.
- **Strong Talent Network**: Surrounded by colleagues from top institutions and government agencies (State Department, UN, Columbia SIPA, Michigan State), fostering a culture of expertise and mission-driven work.
- **Comprehensive Roles**: Opportunities span from hands-on red teaming and software engineering to research and operations, appealing to a wide range of skills and career paths.

## Sources
1. [10alabs.com](https://10alabs.com/)
2. [Built In - 10a Labs](https://builtin.com/company/10a-labs)
3. [LinkedIn - 10a Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10a-labs)
4. [Greenhouse - 10a Labs Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/10alabs)

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