Build team - accounting (controller) and budget & planning side (FP&A), present to board and own financial piece, build finance strategy and vision, scale systems and processes, generally own HR, IT, Legal, Start looking at cohort analysis
presents well externally, have an opinion and build loyalty with CEO, strategic, risk management, educate CEO on metrics, valuation and dilution, good rapport with other sr. executives built on mutual respect (No BS, ask the tough questions, why did we miss here)?
Hired great team & comfortable with them running their functions (FP&A/Accounting) successfully raised funding or has led team through acqusition
Sales pipeline efficiency (reps not hitting quota), recruiting efficiency, employee retention, margins, revenue numbers, infrastructure spend, churn (subscription business), CAC, payback period per customer profitability,