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Finance Lead

In Office Lunch & Dinner💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-26

Core

Building the finance function for a growth-stage startup, focusing on strategic planning, fundraising, and financial operations.

Role type

Finance Lead (early hire)

Builds

Financial planning, fundraising materials, and operational processes for a growth-stage startup.

Domain

Fintech / AI / Startups

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Strategic planning, financial modeling, fundraising, board reporting, accounting oversight, KPI tracking, early-stage startup experience, investment banking/PE background, AI/token/economics familiarity

Preferred skills

Entrepreneurial mindset, process improvement, adaptability, hands-on execution

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Lead quarterly and annual planning cycles, serve as strategic partner to founders and GTM, own Board meeting materials, manage accounting firm relationships, drive accountability via metrics and KPIs

Seniority

Early hire, hands-on IC

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## About the Role We are looking for our first hire to help build our finance function and own and execute against a broad, critical scope. ## Key Responsibilities - Help lead the quarterly and annual planning cycle guiding overall company strategy, resource allocation, and decision-making - Serve as strategic partner to founders, GTM, and R&D across opportunities to drive ROI, make strategic investments that drive growth. - Own materials for our Board meetings and serve as a key partner on future fundraising processes - Manage relationship with accounting firm and oversee the bookkeeping process - Drive accountability from a metric, KPI, and monitoring perspective ## Requirements - Experience as an early hire in a finance function at a growth-stage startup - Familiarity with economics of AI / tokens / agents - Prior experience in investment banking and/or PE - Entrepreneurial and proactive - looking for creative ways to make the team better and improve processes and looking to take on responsibility - Flexible, adaptable, willing to get hands dirty, collaborative
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