A Day In The Life Of A Head Of Finance And Business Operations At TigerEye Labs, Inc.
A day in the life of Yuri, Head of Finance and Business Operations at TigerEye Labs, is highly varied, encompassing "glamorous things like paying bills" and strategic work with the CEO on future planning, contrasting the typical "35 hours of meetings a week" found in larger companies with the focused, independent work afforded by their smaller firm.
Financial Management, Business Operations, Strategic Planning, Problem-Solving, Leadership
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Yuri Yakubov
Head of Finance and Business Operations
TigerEye Labs, Inc.
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley MBA, Haas School of Business
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Honors Student, Took Out Loans, Immigrant, Worked 20+ Hours in School
Video Highlights
1. Varied day-to-day tasks: No two days are exactly alike; responsibilities range from customer interaction and product configuration to financial tasks like paying bills and managing accounting.
2. Importance of financial modeling and strategic thinking: The role involves working with the CEO on financial projections and assessing the impact of potential changes.
3. Small company environment: Unlike larger companies, this position allows for significant independent work time without numerous meetings, providing more time for focused work on financial models and contracts.
Transcript
What does a day in the life of a head of finance and business operations look like?
It's a hard question to answer. There aren't necessarily a lot of days that look the same.
Some days I might be doing a lot of customer-facing work, working with our product team, or working on customer environments to help configure things. Most days will be some combination of taking care of financial responsibilities.
This could involve glamorous tasks like paying bills or chasing customers to get them to pay their bills to us. It also includes keeping our accounting in line, our operating model up to date, and talking with our CEO about potential changes and their future impact.
One thing I enjoy about being at a small company is that we don't have a ton of meetings. At bigger companies, I've had weeks with 35 hours of meetings, which leaves little time to actually do work and requires evenings to catch up.
We don't have that here because there aren't as many people to meet with. So, I end up having a lot of heads-down time during the day to work on financial models or follow up on contract stuff with our attorneys. That's generally what a week looks like.