Finance Lead

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What is Spade?

Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type. Spade is a data and AI platform that turns messy transaction strings into structured, verified records — and gives teams the tools to act on it across authorization, attribution, analytics, and AI initiatives. Spade leads the market in terms of merchant coverage, matching accuracy, geolocation data, and speed of transaction enrichment. Customers such as, FIS, Bilt, Mercury, Stripe, alongside many other leaders in fintech and financial services, trust Spade's data to enable personalized rewards programs, accurate applied spending rules, precise analytics requests, and innovative AI-powered features. Spade is a fast growing, Series B company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including Oak HC/FT, a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work. What will you be doing? As Spade’s first finance hire, you will build the financial foundation for our next stage of growth. You’ll take ownership of our financial strategy,... planning,... operations—from monthly close and cash management,... FP&A... strategic finance. You’ll collaborate closely with COO,... CEO,... CRO,... acting as true thought partner to shape strategy,... support key decisions with robust analysis,... drive business growth.

• Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with leadership team on financial strategy... scenario planning... Leverage data... insights... inform major business decisions (pricing,... hiring,... market expansion), challenge assumptions,... accelerate business growth.
• Financial Planning & Analysis: Develop budgets... forecasts,... monitor budget vs actuals,... build dashboards for key metrics (e.g., revenue growth,... burn rate,... GTM metrics,... unit economics,... usage-based revenue drivers etc.).
• Investor & Board Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports... forecasts for board... investors... Support future fundraising by owning data room prep,... due diligence requests...
• Cash Management & Capital Strategy: Track cash runway... working capital... Advise leadership on capital strategy,... fundraising timing,... optimal deployment of capital raised... Build/maintain cash flow models informing strategic decisions.
• Operational Build-out: Implement/own finance tools/software as needed (e.g., QuickBooks,... expense management,... financial modeling in Google Sheets)... Establish internal controls/financial policies enabling scalable growth.
• Accounting & Bookkeeping: Own monthly close process; manage accountants ensuring accurate GAAP-compliant records; manage invoices; payables; receivables.

What experience,... skills,... qualifications necessary?

• 7+ years experience in finance role
• 3+ years in-house at high growth B2B fintech startup; deep understanding key SaaS/usage based business metrics
• Experience supporting fundraising process — data room prep; investor diligence; financial narrative
• Familiarity usage-based or consumption pricing models & implications for revenue recognition & forecasting
• Generalist finance skillset (foundational accounting/bookkeeping knowledge; strong FP&A skills; advanced financial modeling skills)
• Strategic business mindset & understanding key business drivers
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Ability to challenge/influence business outcomes
• Ownership mindset & bias towards action
• Strong preference candidates background investment banking; private equity; management consulting
• NYC required

Why join Spade?

• Be cultural founder: Early employee plays meaningful role defining/building culture.
• Get on ground floor: Small but well-funded team – joining now limited risk/unlimited upside.
• Build next generation financial infrastructure: Products powering next wave fintech innovation helping customers deliver better/more transparent products/services.

Benefits include:

• Competitive compensation & equity package
• Full medical dental & vision benefits US-based employees
• Life & short-term disability insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Early exercise program
• Extended post termination exercise period
• 401K retirement planning
• Hybrid team pet-friendly headquarters NYC
• Paid parental leave
• Work from home stipend

Diversity & Inclusion at Spade:

Spade equal opportunity employer committed building diverse equitable inclusive culture...

Salary Range:

At Spade total compensation = salary + equity + benefits... Recruit motivated/high performing talent compensated aligned value brought... Factors considered: years/breadth experience interview performance market dynamics internal equity... Anticipated base salary range $200000 - $250000 plus equity grant.