Finance Associate

About the role

We're hiring a Finance Associate to own the operational, in-the-weeds finance work that keeps Heron running — accounts receivable and billing (one of our most important and trust-critical customer touchpoints), burn reconciliation, revenue reconciliation, and the numbers that feed our investor reporting and business reviews. As we scale, we want someone who can take full ownership of these workflows and run them reliably and independently — becoming the person who owns how operational finance actually runs day to day.

Responsibilities

• Own accounts receivable end-to-end — billing is one of our most important and direct customer touchpoints, and getting it right protects both revenue and customer trust. You'll work cross-functionally to make sure every customer is billed correctly, run the month-end billing process, and own the AR function as it scales
• Run month-end finance cycles — own burn calculation and reconciliation across our banking and spend stack, plus the data inputs that feed business reviews
• Own revenue reporting investors can trust — reconcile billing and CRM data against our source of truth, untangle the messy edge cases, and build out the retention and revenue metrics (e.g. GRR, NRR, cohort views by segment) that show how the business is really performing and that go to our board and investors
• Contextualize the numbers — understand where we're spending and investing as a company, and what the numbers mean in the broader context of the business
• Support planning & FP&A — partner on our financial model, budgeting, and forecasting: pull together the inputs, pressure-test assumptions, and help translate the numbers into a forward view
• Automate the finance function — find the repetitive, manual work and build it away; help move us toward a finance function that scales without linearly adding headcount
• Use AI deeply — you'll lean on AI heavily, both to automate finance work and to dig into how our product actually generates revenue, so the numbers always reflect what's really happening under the hood

Requirements

The best fit is someone who wants to own operational finance at a startup — either an accountant ready to move out of traditional accounting into something more impactful, or someone who's already worked in the finance function of a startup and wants more ownership of how it runs.

Qualifications

• An accounting or finance background (2–5 years of experience)
• Genuinely enjoys the detail-oriented work of getting the numbers exactly right, even when it's painstaking
• Detail-obsessed where it counts — you take real satisfaction in getting the numbers exactly right, and you don't drop the ball
• A collaborative team player — you work well across functions and bring people along
• Growth-minded — you want to stretch, learn, and grow into more over time
• Eager to leverage AI — you're excited to be in a seat where you use AI heavily, both to automate and to understand the product and the business
• Opinionated and able to back it up — you form a view and can defend it with evidence
• Trustworthy with sensitive data — you'll handle the company's financials; we'll count on your judgment and care

Benefits

As a Heron, you can expect:

• Competitive compensation, including equity
• Full-time in NYC, where the team works in-person
• Your choice of top-of-the-line equipment to fit out your desk in the office
• Occasional travel for retreats and to work with the team
• Competitive benefits: health insurance; pension/401k; uncapped annual leave; parental leave
• Free mental health support via Spill - on-demand access to therapy
• Weekly company lunches (always inclusive and vegan-friendly - especially if you like Korean or Vietnamese food!)

Pay

$120K - $200K

Schedule

Full-time in NYC