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Finance Lead

Spade
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$170k - $200kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Spade is hiring its first finance lead to build the financial foundation for its next growth stage, overseeing strategy, planning, and operations including monthly close, FP&A, and strategic finance.

Responsibilities

  • 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, partner with accounting firm to ensure financial records are accurate and GAAP-compliant, and manage invoices, payables, and receivables.
  • Cash Management: Track cash runway and working capital.
  • Strategic Partner: 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. Establish internal controls and financial policies to enable scalable growth.
  • Investor & Board Reporting: Prepare monthly/quarterly financial reports for our board and investors. Support future fundraising by owning data room prep, due diligence requests, etc.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in a finance role
  • 2+ years of experience in-house at a high growth B2B startup
  • Deep understanding of key SaaS/usage based business metrics
  • Familiarity with usage-based or consumption pricing models and their implications for revenue recognition and forecasting
  • Generalist finance skillset (foundational accounting and bookkeeping knowledge, strong FP&A skills, advanced financial modeling skills)
  • Experience supporting a fundraising process — data room prep, investor diligence, financial narrative
  • Strong strategic partnership skills and comfort working with / presenting to leadership
  • Based in NYC with ability to work out of our Flatiron office at least 2 days/week

Skills

Required:Financial Planning & AnalysisGAAP & AccountingCash Flow ManagementStrategic Finance & FP&AFundraising Support

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Spade

Enriched transaction data you can build on

Spade is the next generation of fintech infrastructure. We’re building a financial data enrichment API purpose built to empower our customers to uncover the truth hidden within their transaction data. We use our vast, ground-truth merchant data set to decipher cryptic transactions, helping customers underwrite, detect fraud, build better banking infrastructure and get a unique understanding of their users’ spending habits.

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