• Full-time

Publication date: 2026.10.14

CFO Candidate (Chief Financial Officer)

  • Back Office / Assistant
  • Full remote work
  • Salary: JPY 15,000,000 - 25,000,000
CFO候補(最高財務責任者)
職種Position Back Office / Assistant
会社概要Company profile We are developing "Bring Out," an AI SaaS platform for analyzing conversation data. By analyzing conversations that often remain "black boxes"—such as sales meetings, internal discussions, and frontline service interactions—and extracting key information, we help client companies and their employees boost productivity.

Our solution is already utilized across diverse sectors—including IT, HR, M&A, real estate, manufacturing, and healthcare—and supports a wide range of functions such as sales, product development, R&D, finance, and human resources. We primarily serve enterprise-level clients, meeting rigorous demands for high security, availability, and flexible data integration.

Our technical foundation is built by a development team comprising engineers from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and X (Twitter)—including several individuals with prior CTO experience—alongside an AI team featuring talent from Google, IBM, and Preferred Networks. With the evolution of LLMs, we can now transform previously invisible frontline tacit knowledge and customer insights into structured data; we are taking on the challenge of creating a new management model for the AI ​​era, originating from Japan.
仕事内容Job description <Job Overview>
Refining primary information to renew Japan's management model
Until now, management decisions have been made based on aggregated figures and relayed reports. However, the dividing line that determines results lies in the primary information behind them.

Bringout combines an AI platform that extracts and structures primary information from dialogue data with its own products, identifies the points that move results from there, implements them as service and operational models tailored to each customer, and embeds them within the organization. The work does not stop at formulating strategy. We work directly on on-site operations and deliver all the way to the point where the quality of management decisions changes.

To date, we have been working together with enterprise customers representing Japan to transform core industry processes into AI Native ones. We create a state in which management and the front lines can act on the same questions, changing how a company sees, decides, and moves. That change produces results for one company, and eventually becomes a new management model referenced by other companies. By increasing the number of such companies, we aim to raise the competitiveness of Japanese companies as a whole.

Our business has entered a phase of rapid growth, and the next challenge is capital strategy. We are welcoming a CFO as a management member who will translate this growth into the language of the capital markets and design everything from fundraising and listing to the governance beyond.

The Role of the CFO
This is the first time our company is appointing a CFO. In this position, you will consistently be responsible for building a financial structure with an eye toward listing and for designing and executing capital strategy, and reporting directly to the CEO, you will oversee the company's entire finance domain, including fundraising, IPO preparation, management control, and consideration of M&A.

Day-to-day corporate operations are handled by a team led by the Head of Corporate, so the division of roles allows you to concentrate first on capital strategy and IPO preparation. Overall oversight of corporate functions in the future will be designed according to your experience and preferences.

What Makes This Position Interesting
(1) You can design fundraising from a blank slate
Where to raise funds from, how to use equity and debt differently, at what scale and timing to go public, how far to push growth investment. All of these unprecedented decisions are yet to come. Designing the finance organization and fundraising itself becomes the mission.

(2) Translating a business without a category into the language of the capital markets
Our business, which turns dialogue data into primary information for management, does not yet have an established market category. Moreover, it has a hybrid profit and loss structure in which platform recurring revenue and professional services revenue coexist, and there is no standard formula for how to turn this into metrics and how to talk about it. The work of translating the appeal of the business into an equity story that investors can properly evaluate will be the area where the CFO's own expertise is most valuable.

(3) Making decisions at the same table as the management team
You will participate in the board of directors, dialogue with shareholders, and management meetings from the very start. It is an environment where you can debate on equal footing, with financial expertise, alongside a management team made up of people from consulting firms, investment banks, and operating companies.

(4) You can build an AI-native administrative division
The entire company uses Claude Code in daily work, and we have also begun automating corporate operations. We are at a point where finance and accounting practice can be redesigned on the premise of AI, and you can invent the productivity of the administrative division itself.

The Four Areas of Work in This Position
(1) Designing and completing IPO preparation
Selection of and negotiation with the lead underwriting securities firm and audit firm
Development of disclosure systems, internal controls, and internal regulations
Overseeing the preparation of listing application documents (Part I, etc.)
Recommendations to management regarding listing timing and market selection
(2) Fundraising, capital policy, and IR
Building the equity story and explaining it to investors
Using equity and debt appropriately
Designing funding sources (selection including non-financial management resources, such as VC, CVC, operating companies, and financial institutions)
Designing capital policy and stock option programs
Ongoing dialogue with existing shareholders
(3) Advancing management control
Building and operating systems for business planning and budget-vs-actual management
Designing the KPI framework and management accounting for a hybrid model in which platform recurring revenue (ARR, NRR, etc.) and professional services revenue coexist
Providing materials for decision-making at management meetings
Providing a financial perspective on cross-departmental investment decisions such as hiring plans and development investment
Building the governance structure (internal controls, internal audit, division of duties among officers and mutual checks, etc.)
(4) M&A and capital and business alliances
Financial evaluation of M&A and alliances as growth strategy
Leading due diligence, negotiations, and PMI
About Compensation
As an executive position, compensation will be designed individually according to your experience. For this position, you will be welcomed as a "CFO candidate," and the title and authority at the time of joining will be designed according to your experience. This is a hire premised on appointment as CFO.

Thank you for reading this far. We look forward to meeting someone who will design, at the same table, the capital strategy that will shape the company's next 10 years.

<Background (any one of the following)>
Someone who, at a listed company or a later-stage company, has personally executed several of the following—fundraising, budget-vs-actual management, disclosure, and audit response—as the person responsible for finance or as the No.2 directly under the CFO (e.g., Finance Director, Management Control Director)
Someone from an investment bank or securities firm who subsequently moved to the operating company side and has experience in financial practice as an issuer
Someone who has been stationed or seconded at a portfolio company of a PE fund and has personally driven the building of management systems and cash flow management
Someone who, as a Certified Public Accountant, has been deeply involved in the practical operations of IPO-preparing companies and listed companies, and has execution experience on the operating company side

<Skills>
Experience executing finance on the operating company (issuer) side
Involvement as a direct participant in listed-company-level discipline (disclosure, audit response, internal controls)
Negotiation skills with management, shareholders, audit firms, and securities firms
Practical experience in business planning and budget-vs-actual management
応募資格Requirement Experience seeing an IPO preparation process through to listing approval
Experience handling market changes (such as a transition from the Growth Market to the Prime Market) or market restructuring
Qualifications such as 公認会計士 (Certified Public Accountant) or USCPA
Experience executing M&A on the buy side (due diligence, negotiation, PMI)
Experience negotiating with equity capital markets and public offering underwriting departments
Experience in crisis management and governance rebuilding
Experience with Series B or later fundraising at a startup
Someone who wants to be a manager before being a finance specialist
Someone who handles the documents and figures for listing preparation with their own hands first, before delegating to others
Someone who is honest about feasibility while not giving up on the big picture
Someone who can design a landing point in negotiations with audit firms and securities companies rather than simply doing as told
Someone who can raise objections with financial grounds when they cannot agree with a management decision
Someone who wants to make full use of generative AI in their own work and redefine the productivity of the administrative division
日本語力Japanese level Fluent
雇用形態Employment type Full-time
勤務エリアLocation Full remote work
勤務時間Working hours Flextime
想定年収Salary JPY 15,000,000 - 25,000,000
条件・待遇Condition <Salary>
Negotiable (designed for an executive role, combining cash compensation and stock options)
<Work Location>
Full remote
Tokyo, Marunouchi office available
<Employment Type>
Full-time employee
<Holidays>
Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday), public holidays
Paid leave: 10 days per year
Year-end and New Year holidays (December 29 to January 3)
Congratulatory and condolence leave
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