Head of Finance / CFO
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
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THE FINANCE ROLE:
We're looking for a finance person to join our team and run the money side of an unusual anime company.
We train state-of-the-art anime diffusion models (like the world's leading anime model, niji・journey https://nijijourney.com/), and then we build anime video games using these models.
You'll report directly to the CEO and help make sure that our books add up and our contracts pencil out.
We're looking for somebody who loves anime and video games as much as we do.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Do the books. We are looking for somebody to close, reconcile and do financial statements across a US parent and a Japanese subsidiary.
- Run spend and controls. Own Ramp, expense policy, bill pay and approvals.
- Keep us compliant in US and Japan. We need help with our US federal and state taxes, Delaware, Japanese filings, tax treaties, R&D credits, transfer pricing and audits.
- Game launch finance. App store payouts, global sales tax/VAT/JCT on digital goods, multi-currency revenue and live-ops monetization reporting for our upcoming mobile title.
- Compute economics. Help keep our combination of cloud and on-prem GPUs running through vendor negotiations, multi-year contract modeling, and even capex + realestate transactions.
- Strategic M&A. We have capital set aside for strategic acquisitions. Help us find, diligence and close them.
YOU MIGHT BE A GREAT FIT IF:
- You genuinely love anime and games.
- You genuinely love anime and games.
- You’ve been the finance lead at a startup before.
- You’ve been the finance lead at a startup before.
- You hate politics and management in general.
- You hate politics and management in general.
- You’re comfortable with in-person.
- You’re comfortable with in-person.
To apply - please share your resume and the name of the best waifu or husbando in your message!
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From Spellbrush's careers page (Ashby), checked 2 Nov 2026.
How to apply
- Select Apply on spellbrush.com. It opens Spellbrush's own application form in a new tab, run on Ashby.
- Fill in the form and upload your résumé there. Jobiwork never sees your application.
- Spellbrush will reply to you directly. No real employer asks you for money to apply.
Posted 2 Nov 2026 · checked 2 Nov 2026 · Report this job