Sr Finance Manager

We are Cuco Agency, a marketing agency and experience production company that creates events, brand activations, and special projects for brands that want to do more than communicate: they want to be remembered ✨

We turn strategy into real experiences, connecting brands and people through creative, well-executed, and meaningful projects. Over the past few years, Cuco has grown rapidly and expanded its operations across Brazil, the United States, and Europe, bringing our unique approach to experience-building into different markets

Role Purpose

The Sr Finance Manager will lead Cuco’s global administrative and financial structure, ensuring predictability, governance, and a solid foundation for sustainable growth across multiple markets.

This role exists to transform financial complexity into executive clarity, enabling the company to scale with discipline, confidence, and long-term vision. The Sr Financial Manager will act as a strategic partner to leadership while also structuring and strengthening the financial backbone of a fast-growing, creative, and operationally dynamic organization.

First-Year Priorities

• Establish financial predictability, especially cash flow visibility across Brazil and international operations
• Structure and standardize monthly closing and management reporting processes
• Implement core financial governance, including controls, documentation, and intercompany foundations
• Support international expansion with financially sound structures and operational clarity
• Strengthen margin visibility and financial decision-making across projects and business units

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the administrative and finance function, ensuring operational organization, reliability, and scalability
• Define and execute Cuco’s corporate financial strategy, integrating planning, forecasting, and long-term analysis
• Ensure strong cash flow governance across multiple entities and currencies
• Oversee monthly financial close and deliver clear, structured reports to the CEO, leadership team, and shareholders
• Manage the consolidation of financial results across all operating entities, ensuring consistency across countries, currencies, and accounting standards
• Govern intercompany transactions, including pricing, documentation, and consolidation adjustments
• Oversee revenue recognition for complex commercial agreements (merchandising, sponsorships, marketing, and hybrid models), ensuring compliance with applicable standards
• Supervise accounting treatment of costs, fixed assets, intangible assets, leases, and provisions
• Act as the main technical counterpart in complex accounting discussions with external auditors
• Provide functional leadership to Legal and external BPO partners, setting standards, priorities, and governance guidelines
• Lead financial, tax, and corporate compliance initiatives, including the setup of entities in new jurisdictions
• Strengthen corporate governance, internal controls, and financial documentation processes
• Support strategic decisions through financial modeling, scenario analysis, margin evaluation, and risk assessment
• Lead and develop the administrative-financial team, ensuring performance, clarity, and structure
• Act as a strategic partner to the CEO/COS and executive team in key decision-making forums
• Support or lead strategic transactions such as due diligence, MA, capital structuring, and investor relations
• Prepare the company, when applicable, for capital markets initiatives such as IPOs or follow-ons

Requirements Technical Background

• Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related fields
• Fluency in English (required for international communication, negotiations, and reporting)
• Strong experience with multi-entity cash flow management and international operations
• Deep knowledge of corporate governance, compliance, and internal controls
• Experience with MA, financial due diligence, and capital structuring
• Familiarity with capital markets (IPO, fundraising, investor relations)

Experience

• Proven experience as Senior Finance Leader
• Background in complex and evolving business environments, especially those undergoing growth and professionalization
• Experience in service-based companies, agencies, or creative businesses is a strong plus
• Comfortable operating in environments that require building structure while managing ongoing operations