Job description for Finance Executive at sidekicklabs
Why we exist
Every era of computing gets defined by its interface. The last twenty years belonged to the touchscreen. Now AI is here, and we still operate it through the old era's interface: open an app, tap through screens, stitch the steps together yourself.
We believe a new medium is arriving for how people work with technology, the first real shift beyond the phone. As AI gets better, your part collapses to three verbs: instruct, verify, respond. Someone is going to design how that feels in the physical world. We intend to be one of the authors of it, not the audience.
Our starting move is AI glasses for travellers. Travel is where the new medium is at its most obvious: unfamiliar places, foreign languages, and no patience for being heads-down in apps on a holiday you paid for. It's our wedge, not our destination.
Timing is the whole game. A few years ago, AI couldn't carry this. A few years from now, the answer belongs to whoever moved first. The window is open now. We're the small team in Singapore that intends to walk through it.
How we work
We are AI-native. AI isn't a tool we occasionally reach for; it's how every function in this company runs, and everyone here works with it daily. Join us and you'll see what the future of work looks like from the inside, years early.
We like doers: ambitious about where this goes, down to earth about what it takes to get there. And we're honest about fit. Small team, finite resources, ground that moves. If you want a defined lane, a slow pace, and big-company comfort, this isn't the place. If you want to own outcomes and try things that haven't been done, read on.
The role
Finance is the lifeblood of a company. Your job is to make sure every cent is accounted for and flowing where it should, and to be the CEO's right hand in the back office while you do it.
The work is the interesting kind of finance, because we make physical things: manufacturing vendors, cross-border payments, a government grant with a formal audit trail, and a consumer launch on the way. None of it is data entry: our accounting stack is AI-assisted, so the machine does the grunt work and you do the judgment.
At our size, clean books are trust: with investors, with auditors, with government agencies. You keep that trust bankable, and you have the answer ready when the CEO asks where we stand.
What you'll do
- Own day-to-day finance ops: bookkeeping, AP/AR, vendor invoices, payroll admin
- Own month-end close and keep us permanently audit-ready
- Run government grant claims end to end: qualifying costs, documentation, audit trail
- Handle manufacturing and vendor payments, including cross-border
- Give the CEO cash visibility: problems flagged before they become problems
- Build the processes as you go: nothing here is inherited, which means everything can be built right
What you'll need
- 3 to 6 years in finance operations, accounting, or audit
- Time spent around B2C or hardware: physical products, inventory, consumer revenue.
- Clean-books fundamentals: no one needs to check behind you
- Documentation discipline
- Spreadsheet fluency
- Appetite for working AI-first: let the machine type so you can think
What you get
- Salary plus equity (ESOP): you own a piece of what you build
- The finance function as yours to shape
- A front-row seat to fundraising, manufacturing, and a global consumer launch
- Fluency in AI-native finance operations before it's on anyone's CV
Application
It takes about three minutes: your CV and one line on the best thing you've made with AI.
If you're shortlisted there's one small task, then an interview. We won't ask for more than 90 minutes of your time before we've met, and you'll hear from us within 7 days at every step.
