Financial Operations

Clay; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Clay is seeking a Financial Operations Lead to join our growing Finance & Accounting team. You will own day-to-day financial operations with focus on AP, employee spend, T&E, vendor management, and cash operations. This role is hybrid and can be based in NYC or SF, partnering across departments to scale processes as the business grows.

You’ll build scalable controls, improve workflows, and help ensure audit-ready records while guiding a fast-moving organization through rapid growth.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in accounting, AP, T&E, or financial operations in tech or startup environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of AP, expenses, corporate cards, and cash operations.
• Experience owning or significantly improving financial operations processes.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and cross-functional collaboration.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving systems.

Responsibilities

• Own full AP lifecycle: invoice intake, coding, routing, and timely payments.
• Manage vendor onboarding, maintenance, and documentation.
• Resolve invoice/payment issues with vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Administer corporate cards, employee expenses, and T&E; ensure policy compliance.
• Develop spend policies, approval workflows, and controls.
• Monitor cash activity, perform bank reconciliations, and support month-end close.
• Build scalable processes and improve finance systems and automation.
• Collaborate with Accounting, Finance, People, and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Accounting & AP

T&E & expenses

Financial operations

Cash reconciliations

Process improvement

Communication

Cross-functional partnering

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

NetSuite

Ramp

Rippling

Brex

Job description

About Clay

AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clay's mission is to be the engine those companies use to grow to their full potential.

About Clay

AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clay's mission is to be the engine those companies use to grow to their full potential. Clay predicts the next best action for your business and then helps you take it. We started by aggregating the best data for B2B companies. Then, we built the infrastructure to run any personalized campaign on top of it, including emails, ads, landing pages, and workflows that make reps more productive. Now, we're building agents that can help grow your company for you. We're already helping thousands of customers - including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Visa - go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research. In 2026, we raised a $115M Series D at $7.1B Valuation led by Wellington - and are on track to cross $200M in revenue this quarter. We also launched a $1M Scholarship fund for GTME Education. Some things to know about us:

• Our community includes 17,000+ customers, 200+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.
• Our culture is unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more.
• All employees can work with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
• Our operating principles - including negative maintenance and non-attached action - guide our work. Read more about them here.
• Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.

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Financial Operations @ Clay

Clay is looking for a Financial Operations Lead to join our growing Finance & Accounting team. This role will own the day-to-day financial operations that keep the business running smoothly, with a primary focus on accounts payable, employee spend, T&E, vendor management, and cash operations. You’ll be responsible for building scalable processes and infrastructure across these areas as Clay continues to grow. This includes managing the full AP and expense lifecycle, partnering closely with employees and vendors, improving workflows and controls, and helping ensure our financial operations can scale with the business. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys being hands-on, building from the ground up, and improving processes in a fast-moving environment. You’ll work closely with the broader Accounting, Finance, People, and Operations teams and have significant ownership over how financial operations evolve at Clay. This role can be in our NYC or SF office with a hybrid set up.

What You'll Do

Accounts Payable & Vendor Operations

• 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

T&E & Employee Spend

• 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

Cash & Financial Operations

• 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

Process & Systems

• 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

What You'll Bring

• 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

Compensation Range: $150K - $200K