--- title: 'Strategic Finance Lead at Numeral' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-finance-lead-numeral-new-york-3v8t01eqjxjv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-14' --- # Strategic Finance Lead at Numeral - **Company:** Numeral - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $165k–$225k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/numeral/57323a79-fe42-4455-aa1f-d6df96614f8f ## Job description About Numeral: At Numeral, we're building the future of tax by bringing together AI agents, human expertise, and global compliance. We’re the largest and fastest-growing AI-native tax solution. Today, we serve more than 3,500 global businesses, including companies like Supabase, Eight Sleep, and Graza. We’ve grown quickly across our core e-commerce and software segments, more than tripled our revenue every year, and expanded into new industries, including manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale. Numeral has raised over $157M from Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, and many others. About the role: We’re hiring a Strategic Finance Lead to help Numeral make better business decisions and carry them through to results. You’ll join a small finance team, work closely with the VP of Finance, and partner with leaders across the business. This is a senior individual contributor role with ownership of defined areas of planning and selected strategic and systems projects. You’ll work alongside our existing strategic finance team to tackle questions that matter to the business, from the economics of a product launch to the rollout of a new planning platform. You’ll frame the problem, build the analysis, make a recommendation, and work across teams to put it into practice. You’ll have direct exposure to leadership, meaningful influence over where we invest, and room to take on broader scope as the company grows. What you'll do: - Lead strategic projects through implementation. Own projects in areas such as pricing, new-product economics, go-to-market strategy, and capital allocation. Frame the problem, model the options, align teams on a recommendation, and help execute and measure the outcome. - Own key parts of planning and forecasting. Maintain driver-based forecasts, headcount and capacity models, and recurring KPI dashboards for your areas of responsibility. Contribute to the annual budget and long-range plan, explain monthly and quarterly variances, and recommend actions. - Understand what drives growth and profitability. Analyze the funnel, marketing returns, retention, gross margin, and customer economics. Test the assumptions behind the metrics and turn your findings into decisions about where to invest. - Partner with business leaders. Work directly with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to set goals, evaluate hiring and investment proposals, and work through tradeoffs. Bring a clear finance perspective and stay involved as decisions are put into practice. - Make the business clear to leadership and investors. Own analysis and written narratives for selected board and investor materials, and support fundraising and diligence workstreams. Be precise about the numbers, the assumptions, and the implications. - Build and implement finance systems. Lead selected finance systems projects, including planning and reporting tools, from requirements and tool evaluation through implementation and adoption. Use AI and automation to improve speed and reliability, and partner with Accounting and Data to strengthen data quality. What you'll bring: - Relevant finance and operating experience. Typically 5–8 years combining rigorous analytical training in investment banking, investing, or a comparable role with operating finance experience at a B2B software company during rapid growth. We value demonstrated ownership and judgment over an exact career path. - Excellent financial modeling. You can build a clean, driver-based Excel model from scratch, keep it understandable, and work quickly without compromising accuracy. - High agency and follow-through. You can take a broad objective, figure out what matters, and drive it to completion. You get up to speed quickly on unfamiliar business problems and tools, find the resources you need, and keep people aligned without waiting for detailed instructions. - Strong commercial instincts. You understand SaaS metrics and unit economics, including ARR, retention, CAC, payback, and gross margin. You can question how a metric is defined and recognize when it may mislead. - Practical AI fluency. You use AI in your work and can point to an analysis or workflow you’ve improved or automated with it. You know how to validate the output. - Clear communication and integrity. You explain complex analyses simply and communicate findings candidly, including when the numbers challenge expectations. You raise issues early, challenge assumptions constructively, and build trust through a low-ego, collaborative approach. Nice to haves: - SQL and BI tools such as Hex, Looker, or Sigma. - Experience with pricing, sales compensation, or subscription and usage-based revenue models. - Exposure to fundraising, board reporting, or modern planning tools such as Pigment or Anaplan. Location: - This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our NYC office) What we offer: - Competitive salary and equity - you'll share directly in the company's success - Full medical, dental, and vision coverage - Wellness perks like Headspace and the Peloton One App - 401(k) to help you build long-term financial security - Relocation assistance to NYC (if needed) - Lunch and snacks when you're in the office - Regular team offsites and company events as we grow - A culture built on ownership - your work matters and people will see it! ## About Numeral ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Numeral is an AI-native, end-to-end sales tax compliance platform that automates registration, filing, calculation, and remittance for e-commerce and SaaS businesses. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Sam Ross and Matt DuVall ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Sales Tax Compliance / Fintech - **Target customers**: B2B – e-commerce brands, SaaS companies, and any business with multi-state or international sales tax obligations. - **Mission / purpose**: To make sales tax compliance fast, easy, and worry-free so businesses can focus on growth. ## Products & Services - **Numeral Platform**: End-to-end sales tax compliance – automated registration (nexus monitoring), calculation and collection via API, filing, and remittance with white-glove support. - **Global VAT Support**: Coverage for 80+ countries and tens of thousands of jurisdictions. - **Virtual Mailboxes**: Scanning, reading, and responding to physical tax correspondence from state and local governments. - **Exemption Certificate Management**: Verification and storage of exemption certificates to protect during audits. - **Reporting & Dashboards**: Detailed filing history and compliance analytics. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (latest round: Series B in October 2025). - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$57.5M** (Pre-Seed $500K, Seed $4M, Series A $18M, Series B $35M). - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Benchmark, Mayfield Fund, Uncork Capital, Y Combinator. - **Growth Signals**: - Employee headcount of **107** (181.6% YoY growth) – [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/numeralhq). - Trusted by **3,000+ businesses** including Ridge, Eight Sleep, Grüns, and Manus – [numeral.com](https://www.numeral.com/). - Expanding internationally with team members in 7 countries (El Salvador, Brazil, Japan, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, United States). - 39 active job postings (monthly posting growth of +30%). ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native platform**: Leverages artificial intelligence for accuracy and scale across thousands of tax jurisdictions. - **Filing guarantee**: Numeral guarantees on-time filings and pays penalties & interest if they miss a deadline. - **End-to-end coverage**: Registration, calculation, filing, remittance, and virtual mailbox in a single solution. - **Deep integrations**: Connects with billing platforms and custom checkouts via the Numeral Tax API. - **Founder pedigree**: Co-founders scaled 9-figure businesses and led engineering teams at Stripe, Notion, and Box – [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/numeral). ## Strategic Focus - **AI-driven automation**: Continuing to build intelligent workflows that reduce manual tax work. - **Global expansion**: Expanding international VAT coverage and supporting cross-border compliance. - **Customer growth**: Scaling the customer base beyond early adopters to serve mid-market and enterprise companies. - **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, sales, customer success, and tax operations – [careers](https://www.numeral.com/careers). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "Scrappy, gets stuff done, moves the ball forward" – built by former operators and engineers from Stripe, Notion, and Airbnb. - **Work policy**: Hybrid – HQ in San Francisco with remote options within the US (as noted on Y Combinator jobs). - **Benefits**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity (stock options), comprehensive health/wellness perks, top-of-the-line equipment. - **Growth potential**: One of the fastest-growing Y Combinator companies; employees get to shape a platform in a massive, underserved market. - **Team**: Small but rapidly growing (107 employees) with a flat structure and direct access to founders. ## Sources 1. [numeral.com/about](https://www.numeral.com/about) 2. [numeral.com](https://www.numeral.com/) 3. [numeral.com/careers](https://www.numeral.com/careers) 4. [linkedin.com/company/numeralhq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/numeralhq) 5. 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