Director, FP&A

THE 4 BIGGEST BLOCKCHAIN STRENGTHS ARE ALSO ITS WEAKNESS

• Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning

• Decentralization leads to too many standards https://xkcd.com/927/

• Immutability leads to exponential data + query infrastructure complexity

• Neutrality means that no one is accountable for interpretations

Blockchain data is public. It is not usable at institutional scale. Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain. Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL.

BLOCKCHAINS ARE OPTIMIZED FOR WRITES, NOT READS.

They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation. Blockchains are computers, not databases https://x.com/Tim_Roughgarden/status/1512847113599729668. Every protocol defines its own schema. The same economic action can be encoded in dozens of different ways. The result:

• Fragmented standards

• Exponential complexity

• No accountability for interpretation

• Events without economic meaning

Finance cannot operate on that, it needs an effective system of record.

ALLIUM IS BUILDING THE SYSTEM OF RECORD FOR ONCHAIN FINANCE

Allium ingests, verifies, and standardizes data across 140+ blockchains and 30+ petabytes of history. We close four structural gaps that prevent blockchains from becoming systems of record:

• Semantic Gap: Translating raw events into financial concepts like payments, trades, deposits, and staking income

• Standardization Gap: Mapping thousands of protocols into a single canonical cross chain schema

• Infrastructure Gap: Read optimized, globally distributed data at web scale

• Accountability Gap: Auditable methodology, SLAs, and SOC 1 and 2 compliance

The result is a neutral, canonical data layer institutions can build on with confidence.

FINANCE IS MOVING ONCHAIN

Stablecoins, tokenized assets, trading, staking, and lending are growing rapidly. Institutions need a trusted source of truth for onchain financial activity, just as they rely on Bloomberg or DTCC in traditional markets. Raw blockchains cannot serve that role.

As AI agents begin transacting autonomously https://x.com/AlliumLabs/status/2019810793324482901?s=20, the requirement becomes even stricter. Agents cannot reason over raw event logs. They need structured data, attribution, condition checks, and auditability.

Allium is the read layer that makes onchain finance usable for humans and machines.

WHO WE SERVE

Allium powers three core personas with the same canonical data foundation:

and of course.. agents 🦞. Our customers and users include Visa, Stripe, G-SIB Banks, Big 4 Accounting firms, BCG, Coinbase, Phantom, Uniswap and cited by the Federal Reserve.

THE ROLE

We are hiring our first Director of FP&A to help Allium scale through our next phase of growth. You'll own the operating model, annual plan, forecasts, and the metrics frameworks that shape how leadership allocates capital, evaluates performance, and tells our story to the board and investors. You'll partner directly with the leadership team to bring analytical rigor and financial clarity to a fast growing business.

You should be energized by building from scratch, comfortable navigating usage-based and enterprise SaaS economics, and have the judgment to operate with near-zero direction.

WHAT YOU’LL OWN

Planning & Forecasting

• Own the operating model, annual plan, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial outlook - these are living tools that surface tradeoffs, not static documents

• Lead the monthly and quarterly FP&A close rhythm: variance analysis, rolling reforecasts, and close coordination with Accounting

• Build and maintain the headcount plan with functional leaders, tying hiring decisions to business outcomes and ROI - not just forecasting expense, but connecting resourcing to results

Business Partnership & Analytics

• Own the SaaS metrics stack - ARR, net dollar retention, CAC, sales productivity, pipeline velocity, gross margin by product line, burn multiple - and make them legible and actionable for the whole company

• Provide the analytical backbone for pricing decisions, contract structures, and GTM strategy - Allium has a complex price book spanning 150+ blockchain datasets across multiple delivery methods (Snowflake, Databricks, etc). You will need to understand the unit economics beneath it.

• Build best-in-class KPI reporting and dashboards that keep a pulse on the business and drive decision-making across the company

• Own the forecasting and analysis of infrastructure spend - cloud compute, Snowflake, data delivery costs - and partner with Engineering to manage margins as the platform scales

• Partner with RevOps on sales compensation planning - comp plan design, SPIFFs, quota structures - and own commissions processing, administration, and analytics

• Work closely with Accounting to keep the financials tight and ensure a clean handoff between close and forward-looking analysis

Board, Investors, & Strategic Projects

• Prepare financial materials for board meetings, investor updates, and fundraising processes - this includes the narrative, not just the numbers. Help frame Allium's financial story with brevity and confidence

• Own the data room and financial due diligence workflows for future rounds

• Automate and systematize FP&A workflows - eliminate reconciliation friction and build infrastructure that compounds as the company grows

ABOUT YOU

• 8-12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or a blend of banking and operating roles, with at least 3-4 years at a high-growth B2B SaaS or usage-based company

• You've built or significantly scaled an FP&A function before - you know what good looks like because you've built it

• You've already been using and experimenting with Claude Code, MCP, or similar tools. We're building a finance function where AI isn't a nice-to-have, it's infrastructure

• Excellent communicator who distills complex financial information into clear, actionable recommendations

• Prior experience at a data platform, infrastructure, or analytics company is a strong plus

• Comfortable working in ambiguity and iterating quickly - you bias for progress over perfection

• Embodies Allium’s values - Extreme Ownership, High Agency, and Strong Opinions (Loosely Held)

DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY ABOUT US (HTTPS://WWW.ALLIUM.SO/BLOG#LOVE) https://www.allium.so/blog#love

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WHAT SOME ~COOL PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT US:

• The Information's Top 50 Startups (https://www.allium.so/post/allium-named-to-the-informations-50-most-promising-startups-of-2025)

• Mario Gabriele from The Generalist's Future 50 Startup List: https://www.allium.so/post/allium-named-awardee-of-the-generalists-inaugural-future-50-startups

• Tomasz Tungus from Theory Ventures: https://tomtunguz.com/allium/

• Bucky Moore from Kleiner Perkins: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/allium-series-a/

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