← All roles

Head of Finance

Pace· Operations
Apply on company site
New York CityFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Head of Finance to build and lead the finance function at Pace, shaping financial planning, unit economics, and reporting to support growth and strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own financial planning: Build and maintain our operating model, budget, and forecasts. Connect hiring and investment decisions to revenue, margins, cash, and runway.
  • Understand our unit economics: Partner with Engineering and Applied AI to measure the cost of delivering customer workflows, including model usage, infrastructure, deployment, and human review. Identify opportunities to improve margins as we scale.
  • Shape commercial decisions: Work with GTM and leadership on pricing, contract economics, payment terms, and profitability across customers and use cases.
  • Build the finance function: Own accounting, close, financial reporting, treasury, tax coordination, and controls, working with external partners and building internal capabilities as needed.
  • Support the board and investors: Prepare financial materials, communicate performance clearly, and lead financial diligence and planning for future financing.
  • Make finance work efficiently: Partner with Business Operations on payments, invoicing, procurement, and financial systems. Use automation to improve accuracy and reduce manual work.

Qualifications

  • Experience leading finance or strategic finance at a growing technology company.
  • Strong financial modeling skills and a track record of turning analysis into operating decisions.
  • Fluency across accounting, cash management, and business economics, with the judgment to know when specialist support is needed.
  • Experience partnering with founders and functional leaders on budgets, hiring, and resource allocation.
  • Clear communication and the ability to explain financial tradeoffs to technical and commercial teams.
  • Willingness to build processes yourself and stay close to the details.

Skills

Required:Financial modelingAccounting and financial reportingCommunication

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity ownership
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited paid time off
Last updated Oct 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Pace

The AI operations platform for insurance

Pace turns operating procedures for carriers, brokers, and MGAs into agentic systems that execute complex workflows across documents, systems, and customer channels.

AIBPOagentsautomationinsuranceintegrationobservabilityoperational efficiency
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Pace