Finance Operations Lead: Procurement & Spend Optimization

Nudge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nudge is seeking a Finance Operations Manager in San Francisco to own daily finance operations across purchasing, procurement, vendor management, and spend processes. You will lead purchasing workflows, vendor coordination, and ensure timely, accurate financial records.

You will partner with engineering, research, and operations teams to secure equipment, services, and supplies while building robust systems, controls, and processes for expense management and vendor onboarding.

Qualifications

• Experience in finance operations, procurement, and purchasing in a fast-moving startup.
• Strong understanding of purchasing workflows, vendor management, approvals, invoices, and spend controls.
• Hands-on experience with accounting operations, AP, reconciliations, close support, and financial documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day finance operations across purchasing, procurement, vendor management, accounting workflows, and spend processes.
• Manage the purchasing process, including purchase requests, approvals, vendor coordination, order tracking, and issue resolution.
• Partner with teams across engineering, research, operations, and workplace to ensure critical equipment, materials, services, and supplies are purchased accurately and on time.
• Build and improve the systems, tools, and controls that support purchasing, approvals, expense management, vendor onboarding, and financial operations generally.
• Maintain accurate records across invoices, purchase orders, contracts, vendor information, budgets, and spend documentation.
• Help ensure spend is well-managed, properly approved, and visible to the right stakeholders.
• Identify bottlenecks in purchasing and finance workflows and implement practical improvements that help the company move faster.
• Support tax, treasury, audits, insurance, and other finance-related processes as needed.

Skills

Finance ops

Procurement

Vendor mgmt

Accounts payable

Spend controls

Cross-functional

Attention to detail

Communication

Job description

Nudge is seeking a Finance Operations Manager in San Francisco to own daily finance operations across purchasing, procurement, vendor management, and spend processes. You will lead purchasing workflows, vendor coordination, and ensure timely, accurate financial records.

You will partner with engineering, research, and operations teams to secure equipment, services, and supplies while building robust systems, controls, and processes for expense management and vendor onboarding.