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Finance Automation Lead

Instawork · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

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About Instawork

Temporary and permanent staffing: hospitality, warehouse, retail, hotel, event, and food service operations. 7M workers across 400+ cities in U.S. and Canada. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and GV.

About the role

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Recent, demonstrable experience building AI/LLM-powered or agentic workflows that run in a real operation and that people still use
  • Working knowledge of core finance processes (order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, month-end close, reconciliations) and how they connect to the ERP
  • Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills with advanced Excel/Google Sheets
  • Experience with workflow automation or integration tools (e.g., Workato, Zapier, n8n, Make) or APIs
  • Experience leading or developing people, including remote or offshore teams
  • Confidence working directly with customers and Sales on billing and collection issues, and influencing teams you don't manage
More about this role

Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

We're looking for a builder to own Instawork's order-to-cash process and lead finance automation across the Finance team. The role is split roughly evenly: half on billing, collections, and cash conversion, and half on automating finance workflows beyond accounts receivable (AR), from close and reconciliations to Accounts Payable, treasury, and reporting. You'll oversee our offshore collections analysts, work directly with Account Managers, Sales and our business partners (customers) on billing and collection issues, and build AI-powered workflows that cut manual work across Finance. You'll start hands-on to learn how each process runs, then redesign it so it runs with far less manual effort. This position reports...

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