Financial Operations

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. Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page! 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 processingManage vendor onboarding, maintenance, and documentationPartner with vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve invoice and payment issuesMaintain accurate AP records and ensure processes are audit-readyReconcile AP activity to the general ledger and investigate discrepanciesIdentify 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&EReview and approve employee expenses for compliance with company policiesManage expense reimbursements and resolve employee questions or issuesPartner with employees across the organization to ensure a smooth, responsive expense experienceHelp develop and improve spend policies, approval workflows, and controlsMonitor 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 currenciesSupport domestic and international payments, wires, and banking operationsMaintain cash forecasting inputs and communicate potential liquidity or funding needsEnsure appropriate controls and segregation of duties around cash disbursementsSupport 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 growEvaluate and implement improvements across finance systems, workflows, and automationPartner with Accounting, Finance, People, and other cross-functional teams to improve the employee and vendor experienceHelp 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 environmentBachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related fieldStrong working knowledge of AP, employee expenses/T&E, corporate cards, cash operations, and financial reconciliationsExperience owning or significantly improving financial operations processesHighly organized with excellent attention to detail and follow-throughComfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with evolving systems, processes, and prioritiesStrong communication skills and a service-oriented mindset when working with employees, vendors, and cross-functional partnersExperience with modern finance tools such as NetSuite, Ramp, Rippling, Rillet, Brex, or similar is a plusExperience working with multiple entities, currencies, or international payments is a plusCPA or progress toward CPA is a plus, but not required Compensation Range: $150K - $200K