finance
Posted Apr 20Strategic Finance
at AfterQuery
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- - Design and manage financial systems and processes from scratch, across accounts payable/receivable, invoicing, and vendor payments.
- - Track and optimize our top expenses, streamlining the things that make our business complex: API and compute spend, contractor payments, and all internal expenses.
Requirements
- We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models.
- This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI.
- We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI and are based in San Francisco.
- There is a set of unique financial challenges at AfterQuery: - Manage and track costs: Millions of monthly costs across API spend, compute spend, contractor payments, and internal expenses - Customer payment tracking and working capital: Navigating working capital dynamics and payment tracking across our AI lab customers (frontier AI labs, big tech cos, and neolabs) - Optimize financing structures and cash flow: You’ll help think through how we capitalize and structure a scaled, cash-producing business -
- - Manage customer (AI lab) payment tracking and reconciliation.
- experience in strategic finance or finance operations for software-led, AI, or other hyper-scaling businesses. - Strong corporate finance fundamentals and accounting fundamentals, ideally built through investment banking, private equity, startup operator, and/or academic finance background. - Strong financial modeling skills; comfortable building and maintaining budgets, financial statements, and forecasts. -
- Experience with core operational workflows: vendor management, procurement, billing/invoicing, and contract administration. - Highly organized and systems thinker, with a knack for writing playbooks where none exist yet. - Comfort with ambiguity and context-switching.
Experience
- WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 3+ years’