Finance & Operations Associate

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## **Finance & Operations Associate, Pocket**

**Type:** Full time

**Location**: San Francisco (preferred) or remote to start. Candidates are expected to be in San Francisco approximately two out of every three months.

**Timezone:** Must work in PST / EST

**Start:** ASAP

**Compensation**: $70K–$90K base (depending on experience) + optional equity (ESOP).

**Reports to:** Head of Finance & Operations

## About the role

We're hiring a Finance & Operations to work at the intersection of finance, operations, and logistics: building the model behind a real spending decision one day, chasing partners on a delivery timeline the next, and reconciling month-end closing numbers by the end of the week.

It's a broad, hands-on role on a lean team, which means your work shows up directly in how well the company runs - and there's room to grow into more ownership as you prove yourself. Financial acumen is non-negotiable: a big part of this job is finance, and you need to be genuinely comfortable with numbers.

## What you’ll do

* Build financial models and run analyses to support key decisions - pricing, unit economics, margin, and cash
* Own a big part of the monthly close - reconciliations, journal entries, and getting the books closed accurately and on time with our accountants
* Keep reporting and dashboards on the metrics that matter clean and up to date
* Manage vendor and manufacturer relationships day to day - be a point of contact for suppliers and our manufacturing partners, tracking orders, timelines, terms, and follow-ups
* Flag bottlenecks across finance and operations, and help fix them
* Help build process where there is none, and keep it running

## What we’re looking for

### Must-haves

* **Strong financial acumen** - you can build a model, read a P&L, and reason about unit economics, margin, and cash
* You are comfortable owning the accuracy of your numbers, and you double-check them because you know decisions ride on them
* You are highly organized and keep your work clean in a fast-moving environment
* You can look at data and quickly identify what's working and what's not
* You move fast and ship without overthinking
* You take ownership of your work and don't wait to be told every step
* You are the kind of person who just figures things out
* Comfort with tools like Excel/Sheets, QuickBooks / Xero, Carta, Shopify, or RevenueCat

### Strong plus

* Background in investment banking, consulting, FP&A, or startup finance/ops
* Exposure to high-growth DTC, SaaS, or consumer hardware
* Exposure to supply chain, inventory, or vendor and manufacturer management

## Who this is NOT for

* You need detailed onboarding and step-by-step instructions
* You want to stay narrowly in one lane
* You prefer planning over execution
* You are not comfortable being accountable for the accuracy of your work

## Who you are

* Self-directed - you don't wait to be told what to do next
* Fast - you ship, learn, and iterate without overthinking
* Rigorous - you sweat the numbers because you know what rides on them
* Commercially minded - your work ties back to the health of the business
* Switched on and enthusiastic about what we're building
* Clear communicator - short updates, no noise, no excuses
* Comfortable working in a lean, fast-moving startup environment

## What we offer

* Direct impact on a fast-growing YC company with strong early revenue traction
* Work directly with senior team and founders who care about quality and move fast, with room to grow into more ownership
* High trust, high ownership environment

## How to apply

Apply through Y Combinator's job board.

Include:

* 5 sentences on why you and why this role
* You get a dashboard with exactly 5 KPIs for Pocket — you see it every morning, and nothing else. What's on it, and why those five?