Finance Operations Lead: Purchasing & Vendor Management

Healy World; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nudge, a company advancing brain-interface technology, seeks a Finance Lead in San Francisco to own day-to-day finance operations, purchasing, and vendor management. You will partner with engineering, research, and operations to procure equipment, materials, and services, ensuring timely and compliant spend across the organization.

The role requires 10+ years of industry experience, strong accounting and process skills, and the ability to drive cross-functional improvements while maintaining

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.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Comfort working cross-functionally with technical, research, and operations teams.
• Good judgment around spend, prioritization, approvals, and when to escalate issues.
• Comfort switching between process-building and hands-on execution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High integrity and strong professional judgment.

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 engineering, research, and operations teams to ensure critical equipment, materials, services, and supplies are purchased on time.
• Build and improve systems, tools, and controls that support purchasing, approvals, expense management, vendor onboarding, and financial operations generally.
• Maintain 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.
• Support tax, treasury, audits, insurance, and other finance-related processes as needed.

Skills

Finance operations

Procurement

Vendor management

Accounting close

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Decision making

Job description

Nudge, a company advancing brain-interface technology, seeks a Finance Lead in San Francisco to own day-to-day finance operations, purchasing, and vendor management. You will partner with engineering, research, and operations to procure equipment, materials, and services, ensuring timely and compliant spend across the organization.

The role requires 10+ years of industry experience, strong accounting and process skills, and the ability to drive cross-functional improvements while maintaining