Head of Finance & Business Planning

You will own financial planning, cash visibility, and business analysis, working directly with the Founder & CEO and leadership team. You’ll help us decide where to invest, what we can afford, and which milestones our spending needs to deliver.

This is a hands-on role. You should be comfortable building the model yourself, challenging assumptions, coordinating accounting support, and explaining the implications clearly. The role offers a path toward CFO as Satlyt grows.

Satlyt is building virtual AI data centers in space. Our software enables satellite operators to process data and run AI directly aboard spacecraft, reducing dependence on downlinking everything to Earth.

Following our initial Seed closing, we are expanding our engineering and customer delivery teams and scaling deployments across third-party spacecraft. We’re looking for our first dedicated finance leader to help translate that growth into a disciplined operating plan.

Financial planning and runway

Build and maintain an integrated financial model covering revenue, hiring, operating expenses, mission costs, cash flow, and financing scenarios

Lead annual budgeting and rolling forecasts with the leadership team

Maintain a cash forecast and identify funding needs early

Track actual performance against plan and explain material variances

Commercial and operating decisions

Work with engineering and commercial leaders to understand deployment costs, customer onboarding effort, infrastructure costs, and gross margins

Evaluate pricing, contract economics, payment terms, and resource requirements

Distinguish signed revenue from pipeline, grants, and other contingent opportunities

Assess hiring and project investments against runway, delivery capacity, and business milestones

Financial operations

Establish reliable monthly reporting and appropriate spending and payment controls

Coordinate bookkeeping, payroll, tax, and other specialist providers across our U.S. parent and Kenyan subsidiary

Oversee invoicing, collections, payables, and reconciliation so leadership has an accurate view of available cash

Coordinate financial tracking and reporting for grant-funded and government projects

Investor reporting and fundraising

Prepare clear financial reporting for management, the board, and investors

Maintain financing records and capitalization information with counsel and our cap-table provider

Prepare the financial model, supporting analysis, and diligence materials for future fundraising

Help leadership define the operating milestones and capital requirements for our Series A

Experience owning financial planning or strategic finance in a growing technology company

Strong financial modeling skills

Ability to work with incomplete information without creating false precision

Strong understanding of accounting, cash flow, revenue economics, and financial controls

Experience supporting fundraising, investor reporting, or financial diligence

Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and translate financial analysis into business decisions

Willingness to build processes and do detailed hands-on work in a small team

Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial implications clearly to technical and commercial leaders

Enterprise software experience

Infrastructure or cloud business experience

International operations experience

Government contracting experience

Grant accounting or government project reporting experience

Deep technology experience

Experience working with a venture-backed startup

Experience preparing a company for a Series A or later institutional financing

Space industry experience