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Clay· 400 - G&A
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (New York)$150k - $200kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Financial Operations Lead at Clay responsible for day-to-day financial operations with a primary focus on accounts payable, employee spend, T&E, vendor management, and cash operations. Build scalable processes and infrastructure to support growth in a hybrid NYC or SF office.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full AP lifecycle, including invoice intake, coding, approval routing, and timely payment processing
  • Manage vendor onboarding, maintenance, and documentation
  • Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve invoice and payment issues
  • Maintain accurate AP records and ensure processes are audit-ready
  • Reconcile AP activity to the general ledger and investigate discrepancies
  • Identify opportunities to automate and improve AP workflows as the company scales
  • Own the day-to-day administration of corporate cards, employee expenses, and T&E
  • Review and approve employee expenses for compliance with company policies
  • Manage expense reimbursements and resolve employee questions or issues
  • Partner with employees across the organization to ensure a smooth, responsive expense experience
  • Help develop and improve spend policies, approval workflows, and controls
  • Monitor employee and corporate spend and identify opportunities to improve visibility and efficiency
  • Monitor daily cash activity and perform bank reconciliations across entities and currencies
  • Support domestic and international payments, wires, and banking operations
  • Maintain cash forecasting inputs and communicate potential liquidity or funding needs
  • Ensure appropriate controls and segregation of duties around cash disbursements
  • Support month-end close activities related to AP, expenses, cash, and other operational accounting areas
  • Build and document scalable financial operations processes as Clay continues to grow
  • Evaluate and implement improvements across finance systems, workflows, and automation
  • Partner with Accounting, Finance, People, and other cross-functional teams to improve the employee and vendor experience
  • Help establish strong operational controls and processes that can scale with a rapidly growing company

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of relevant accounting, AP, T&E, or financial operations experience, ideally within a high-growth technology or startup environment
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
  • Strong working knowledge of AP, employee expenses/T&E, corporate cards, cash operations, and financial reconciliations
  • Experience owning or significantly improving financial operations processes
  • Highly organized with excellent attention to detail and follow-through
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving systems, processes, and priorities
  • Strong communication skills and a service-oriented mindset when working with employees, vendors, and cross-functional partners
  • Experience with modern finance tools such as NetSuite, Ramp, Rippling, Rillet, Brex, or similar is a plus
  • Experience working with multiple entities, currencies, or international payments is a plus
  • CPA or progress toward CPA is a plus, but not required

Skills

Required:Accounts PayableVendor ManagementCash Management & ReconciliationExpense & T&E ManagementCommunication & Collaboration
Nice to have:Financial Systems
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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