A fast-growing stealth-mode defense startup is looking for an experienced and highly strategic VP Finance to lead its financial operations and support the company’s next stage of growth. This is a key leadership position for a sharp, hands-on finance executive with proven experience in hardware companies, complex operational environments, and global financial management.
What you’ll do:
• Lead the company’s overall financial strategy, planning, and operations
• Serve as a strategic business partner to the CEO, founders, and executive leadership team
• Manage and develop a finance team of five professionals, including controllers and accounting functions
• Own budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, financial modeling, and management reporting
• Oversee accounting, financial controls, tax, compliance, audits, and statutory reporting
• Manage the financial aspects of hardware development, manufacturing, inventory, procurement, and supply-chain operations
• Build and improve financial processes, systems, controls, and reporting infrastructure to support rapid growth
• Manage financial operations across Israel and the company’s international workforce and activities
• Work closely with external accountants, auditors, legal advisors, banks, suppliers, and additional business partners
• Provide clear financial insights and recommendations to support strategic and operational decision-making
• Support fundraising, investor relations, due diligence, and board-level reporting as needed
Requirements:
• Previous experience as a VP Finance or in an equivalent senior financial leadership position – mandatory
• Proven managerial experience leading and developing a finance team – mandatory
• Significant experience in a hardware, defense, industrial, manufacturing, or multidisciplinary technology company – mandatory
• Strong understanding of hardware-related financial operations, including inventory, production costs, procurement, and supply chain
• Experience managing international financial operations and employees located outside Israel
• Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, accounting, controls, and cash-flow management
• Experience working closely with founders, CEOs, boards, and senior management
• Excellent analytical, strategic, and problem-solving capabilities
• Sharp business judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to understand complex operations quickly
• Hands-on, independent, and highly execution-oriented leadership style
• Excellent English and Hebrew communication skills