Finance Lead

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’s API takes these raw, messy transactions, and in <50 ms, returns clean, structured records linked to verified businesses in our proprietary database. Building on that foundation, our agent layer leverages this enriched data to automate insights and decision-making. Customers including Stripe, FIS, Bilt, Corpay, and Mercury use Spade to authorize more transactions, personalize experiences, power rewards programs, and more. We lead the market in merchant coverage, speed of enrichment, and data accuracy, enriching hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction volume every month.

Spade is a fast growing, Series A company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including 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 full ownership of our financial planning, reporting, and operations—from monthly close and cash management to strategic forecasting and investor reporting. You’ll collaborate closely with the CEO and COO to shape strategy, support key decisions with robust analysis, and drive business growth. 

• Financial Planning & Analysis: Develop budgets and forecasts, monitor budget vs. actuals, and build dashboards for key metrics (e.g. revenue growth, burn rate, GTM metrics, etc.).
• Accounting & Bookkeeping: Own the monthly close process, ensure our financial records are accurate and GAAP-compliant, and manage invoices, payables, and receivables.
• Cash Management: Track cash runway and working capital. Advise leadership on fundraising needs and timing based on cash flow projections.
• Strategic Partnership: Work closely with the CEO and COO on financial strategy and scenario planning. Provide analysis to support major decisions (pricing, hiring, market expansion) and challenge assumptions with data.
• Operational Build-out: Implement finance tools/software as needed (e.g. QuickBooks, expense management, financial modeling in Google Sheets). Establish internal controls and financial policies to enable scalable growth.
• Investor & Board Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports and forecasts for our board and investors. Support future fundraising by owning data room prep, due diligence requests, etc.

What experience, skills, and qualifications are necessary? 

• 5+ years of experience in a finance role 
• 3+ years of experience in-house at a B2B SaaS startup and deep understanding of key SaaS/usage based business metrics
• Generalist finance skillset (foundational accounting and bookkeeping knowledge, strong FP&A skills, advanced financial modeling skills)
• Strategic business mindset and understanding of key business drivers
• Comfort with ambiguity 
• Ability to challenge and influence business outcomes 
• Ownership mindset and bias towards action
• Nice to have: experience in consulting, private equity, and/or investment banking, fintech experience
• Strong preference for NYC but open to remote for the right candidate

Why join Spade? 

• Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. 
• Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside. 
• Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. The future of finance will be built on better data, and Spade powers that. You’ll have the opportunity to drive impact at scale, helping industry leaders build more innovative products and services for consumers.

Benefits include:

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

Diversity & Inclusion at Spade:

Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers, but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.

Salary Range:

• At Spade, we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team. 
• We aim to pay fairly and competitively, and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience, interview performance, market dynamics, and internal equity. 
• The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $185,000 and $215,000, and an equity grant.