Head of Finance

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