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title: 'Finance Manager at Covariance'
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# Finance Manager at Covariance

- **Company:** Covariance
- **Location:** New York
- **Compensation:** $90k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-12-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/covariance-ai/am9icG9zdDqJ-2W0Ij0atnHV7CLP4A-N

## Job description

## About Covariance

Covariance is the most advanced audience engine ever built. Our breakthrough AI customizes audiences for every brand and competitive set. Unlike traditional platforms that focus on existing customers, we give marketers a complete view of the entire market: competitors’ customers, your customers, and everyone else shopping in your space. Identify audiences you can win, activate them across channels, and measure lift – all powered by the Covariance Platform. Covariance turns population-scale data into real results: 20-30% improvement in CAC for the campaigns that we power.

+ We built the largest panel of anonymized, third-party consumer behavior data in the United States + We serve enterprise & mid-market retail, DTC, restaurants, transportation, subscription and more + Based on MIT research in specialized AI/ML for third-party data + Team of 30 headquartered in NYC + Winner of Harvard Business School Innovation Prize & named a Top 25 MIT startup to watch

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Finance Manager to help scale the next generation of consumer intelligence platforms. You’ll work closely with leadership to build models, refine assumptions, and deliver insights that inform day-to-day and strategic decisions.

This role is well-suited for someone comfortable operating in an early-stage environment. You’ll help establish regular reporting, improve operational workflows, and ensure the company has a clear view of its historical and projected performance.

## Responsibilities

Accounting & Finance

- Own and maintain the company’s financial model: revenue, COGS, OpEx, headcount, cash forecasting.
- Manage core accounting functions: AP, AR, payroll, billing, monthly close, etc.
- Prepare monthly reporting package: budget vs. actuals, KPI dashboards, variance analysis, and revenue vs plan.
- Support annual planning, quarterly re-forecasting, and scenario modeling.
- Prepare board and investor reporting as needed.

GTM & Revenue Analytics

- Support GTM teams with planning and analytics in alignment with overall company strategy and financial plan.
- Maintain reporting across ARR, net dollar retention, pipeline conversion, bookings, churn, CAC payback, LTV, and unit economics.
- Partner with Sales to ensure accuracy and consistency of ARR/booking definitions, segmentation, and cohort reporting.

Operations

- Enhance data accuracy and streamline workflows across CRM, ERP, and billing platforms.
- Assess operational needs and implement the right tools & processes to support growth.

## Qualifications

- 3+ years experience in FP&A, finance, or related roles - SaaS / subscription business experience strongly preferred
- Strong financial modeling skills and a strong grasp of SaaS metrics and revenue mechanics
- Deep understanding of accounting processes and GAAP principles
- Comfortable working in a high-growth startup with evolving needs; resourceful and self-directed
- Excellent communication skills; able to partner effectively with Marketing, Sales, Product, and Operations
- Bias toward ownership and action, with the ability to build processes and tools from the ground up

## Benefits

- Free health, vision, dental insurance
- 401k with match
- Unlimited PTO + 13 company holidays
- Daily Grubhub lunch stipend
- Pre-tax commuter benefits

## About Covariance

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Covariance provides market intelligence by turning the US consumer economy into a queryable platform using actual purchase data from millions of households.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, $11M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (also has a presence in Berkeley, CA)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Market Intelligence, Consumer Analytics, Data & AI
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (hedge funds, CPG companies, Fortune 500)
- Purpose statement: Deliver previously-impossible insights by combining machine learning with external data, providing a 360° view of any company as if you were the CEO.

## Products & Services
- **Consumer Trends**: Track category trends, brand trends, and emerging behaviors – everything driving consumer spend, from brands to cultural moments.
- **Competitive Intelligence**: Gain market share & size, competitor X-rays, and growth drivers to benchmark against the best in your industry.
- **Audience Intelligence**: Build rich persona profiles, analyze cross-shop behavior and wallet share, and track how different audiences spend.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $11M (Venture Round, March 2026)
- **Notable Investors**: BoxOne Ventures, Simple Food Ventures; Partnered with Facteus to launch the Stratum3 Data Suite for CPG insights.
- **Growth Signals**: 133.3% YoY headcount growth (8 employees), monthly headcount growth of +16.7%, active job postings (+200% YoY), selected for MIT Startup Exchange STEX25 in 2023.

## Competitive Advantages
- Ground-truth purchase data from credit/debit cards and receipts – not surveys or panel estimates.
- 1M brand coverage with next-day refresh and trillions of data points.
- Patent-pending machine learning platform built on MIT research, enabling data-efficient learning with limited ground truth.
- Enterprise-grade security trusted by F500 companies and verified by independent audit.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling enterprise sales (hiring Senior Account Executive, Enterprise and Enterprise Sales Director)
- Strengthening product marketing and GTM (hiring Product Marketing Manager, Lead Recruiter)
- Building out the data platform (hiring Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform)
- Expanding partner integrations (e.g., MCP, customized dashboards, same-day onboarding)

## Why Work Here
- Small, high-impact team (8 employees) with rapid growth trajectory and equity offered.
- Onsite workspace in New York, NY and Berkeley, CA (offices in both locations).
- Cutting-edge work in AI/ML with real-world consumer data, backed by MIT research.
- Opportunity to shape the product and go-to-market strategy at an early-stage company.
- Recently recognized by MIT Startup Exchange, signaling strong innovation and industry relevance.

## Sources
1. [covariance.ai](https://www.covariance.ai/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/covariancelabs](https://linkedin.com/company/covariancelabs)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/covariance-1)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/covarianceai)

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