Head of Finance

About Astra

Astra is building mission-critical infrastructure for moving money  platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime, powering real-time transfers, bank debits, card disbursements, and complex financial compliance systems. We provide APIs and automation tools that enable businesses to move money programmatically while maintaining strict regulatory requirements.

Astra is seeking a Head of Finance to lead and scale our finance function during a period of rapid growth. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will own the company's financial strategy, planning, reporting, and operational rigor, while serving as a key thought partner to the leadership team.

We're looking for a strategic finance leader who can help shape how the business scales — from pricing strategy and capital planning to long-range forecasting, investor readiness, and operational decision-making. This is a highly impactful role that sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution. You will build the financial infrastructure that enables Astra to scale efficiently, provide visibility into company performance, support fundraising and board reporting, and help drive critical decisions across every department.

As Astra’s first finance leader, you’ll own the oversight of tactical work, while defining processes, standard procedures, and building a team to deliver for our fast-growing company’s operational needs. With those foundational systems in place, you will be expected to direct and grow that function rather than execute it yourself – freeing you to focus on the financial strategy, modeling, and investor-facing work that the business needs most right now.

Over time, you'll build out the team further as Astra's needs grow.

The ideal candidate has helped scale a venture-backed fintech, payments, or infrastructure company through multiple stages of growth, ideally from seed or SeriesA through later-stage scale, and has sat close enough to a fundraising process to know what investors actually look for. This person brings strong judgment, executive presence, and the ability to influence decisions in environments where there is no existing playbook.

If you have run the finance function before or were a senior high-performing contributor to a finance team and you want end-to-end ownership at a company moving fast, keep reading.

• Own financial strategy and capital planning
  Monitor cash flow, runway, and capital needs. Build forecasting frameworks that ensure Astra can make informed investment decisions while maintaining financial discipline.
• Guide strategic decision-making
  Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team. Evaluate pricing strategy, resource allocation, and growth initiatives through a financial lens.
• Tell the financial story
  Own board materials, investor updates, fundraising analyses, and executive reporting. Translate complex payments and fintech economics into narratives that support decision-making among internal and external stakeholders. Lead data room preparation and diligence processes, drawing on prior fundraising experience to anticipate what investors will ask.
• Drive FP&A
  Build and maintain the financial models that power decision-making across the business — driver-based models for GMV/TPV, take rate, revenue yield, and unit economics. Develop reporting, dashboards, and KPI frameworks that provide visibility into performance and operating drivers.
• Own payments and fintech economics
  Analyze and forecast payments revenue streams, including interchange, network fees, processor costs, and revenue share agreements. Build models around interchange-plus, buy-rate, and blended pricing structures. Evaluate merchant profitability, cohort performance, and partner economics.
• Own treasury and settlement operations
  Direct reconciliation and settlement accounting across payment rails (ACH, RTP, Fed Now, wires, and card networks settlement). Own treasury and liquidity management, and partner with Astra's compliance and payments teams on capital requirements and licensing tied to our payments operations.
• Own company planning
  Lead the annual budgeting process,…