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About the Role
Clay is seeking a Financial Operations Lead to manage daily financial operations, focusing on accounts payable, employee spend, T&E, vendor management, and cash operations. This role involves building scalable processes and infrastructure to support the company's growth, partnering with various teams, and improving workflows and controls.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant accounting, AP, T&E, or financial operations experience, ideally within a high-growth technology or startup environment.
- 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.
Skills
- Accounts Payable
- Vendor Management
- Employee Spend
- Travel & Expense (T&E)
- Cash Operations
- Financial Reconciliations
- Process Improvement
- Workflow Automation
- Financial Systems
- Communication Skills
- NetSuite
- Ramp
- Rippling
- Rillet
- Brex
Location
- NYC
- SF
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 6+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
About the Company
- 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.
- 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 about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
- Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!