# Head of Finance at Signoz

> Build and own the end-to-end finance function, from monthly close and audits to gross margin analysis and planning.

- Company: Signoz (signoz.io)
- Location: India
- Places: India
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Team: Finance
- Reports to: CEO
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/signoz/787b09cc-c86c-4173-869c-57ca1d5cb7f1
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/head-of-finance-signoz-kn7etyw50k0hkctv0q12k3s8ed8hchff

## The posting

Head of Finance
Signoz · India

## 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.

And we are not fooling around:

- 32,000+ GitHub stars
- 1000+ 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 across our 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 and treasury: 13-week cash flow, runway, USD/INR exposure, banking and surplus deployment
- Getting us off spreadsheets — ERP, billing ops, expense management, procurement approvals, internal controls
- Building a small, high-leverage finance team as the load grows

## What will make you successful

- CA with 8–12 years post-qualification
- 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 the 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
- You'll argue with the CEO using data, and keep the relationship intact

## Nice-to-haves

- Big 4 audit or TAS early, followed by real operating 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 structures
- SaaS or usage-based billing revenue recognition
- You've been through a fundraise from the inside, whatever your role in it

## A few things we'll be straight about

- Roughly 40% of year one is unglamorous: GST reconciliations, audit queries, chasing collections. If yo