B GARAGE

Strategic Finance Lead

New York City · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$160kDetected 13 days ago

Financial ModelingFinancial AnalysisAccountingForecastingFP&ALogisticsCustomer SuccessCadenceCommunication

About the role

This is a hands-on finance role for someone who wants to sit close to the business.
Monitor cash, runway, liquidity needs, and working capital dynamics across corporate operations and marketplace activity.
Identify opportunities to improve margin, capital efficiency, vendor spend, and operating leverage without slowing the team down.

Build and own Garage's operating model, including revenue, GMV, take rate, gross margin, burn, runway, headcount, and cash-flow forecasting.
Define and maintain the financial metrics that matter most for a marketplace business, turning transaction data into clear insights for founders, team leads, and investors.
Lead planning cycles across budgets, hiring plans, spend, and growth initiatives, helping the company understand the tradeoffs behind every major investment.
Build monthly and quarterly reporting packages that explain what is happening in the business, why it matters, and what decisions should follow.
Prepare investor materials, board updates, diligence support, and financing analyses as Garage grows.
Partner with the Accounting Lead on close outputs, transaction flows, funds movement, and reconciled actuals so planning and reporting stay grounded in reliable data.
Build scalable finance systems, dashboards, metric definitions, and planning processes that can support Garage at its next stage and beyond.
As Strategic Finance Lead, you will build the financial operating system that helps Garage scale a transaction-heavy marketplace with speed, discipline, and clarity.
You will own forecasting, planning, metrics, cash visibility, and investor-ready reporting, while partnering closely with the Senior Accountant to make sure clean actuals flow into the right operating decisions.

5+ years experience in strategic finance, FP&A, finance and strategy, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, consulting, business operations, or a finance role at a high-growth company.
Strong understanding of startup operating metrics such as revenue growth, GMV, take rate, gross margin, contribution margin, burn, runway, CAC, payback, and operating leverage.
Experience partnering with senior leaders on budgets, headcount planning, resource allocation, performance reporting, or strategic initiatives.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to turn financial analysis into clear recommendations.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and taking ownership in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

Experience in marketplaces, fintech, payments, lending, logistics, government technology, or another transaction-heavy business.
Experience at a venture-backed startup, especially from Seed through Series B.
Experience supporting fundraising, board reporting, investor updates, data rooms, or strategic financing workstreams.
Experience with marketplace or usage-based economics, including GMV, take rate, liquidity, cohort performance, transaction margin, and working capital needs.
Experience using or implementing tools such as Ramp, Carta, or similar finance and analytics platforms.
Growth oriented.
We invest in people who grow as the company grows.
Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn.

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America's essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes.
In under a year, we've expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we've raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We're moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.
Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America's essential industries.
We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays.
Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing.
What once took months now takes minutes.
In under a year, we've expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x.
Based in New York, we've raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors.
We're moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.

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