Operations & Finance Lead

New York, United States

Stray Emergence Fund invests in organizations that use regenerative economic models and build narrative infrastructure to facilitate systems change. We are part of a larger, living ecosystem that aims to transform the global economy from extraction to regeneration, while fostering harmony between humans and nature.

Given the start-up nature of Stray, our new Operations & Finance team member will build the enabling infrastructure that allows Stray to operate at the frontier of regenerative finance with the peace of mind that we are building an operationally excellent organization. This is an autonomous, high-ownership, hands-on role requiring the judgment to distinguish between what needs escalation to the leadership team and what should simply be handled.

You will own fund/portfolio ops and LP reporting, design and maintain team operations systems, provide financial modeling support as needed, manage fund admin/tax/audit service provider relationships, and coordinate with leadership to ensure we are delivering on Stray’s role and potential in facilitating systems change. This is a team-of-one position reporting directly to the Partner. The ideal candidate has operated at this level before—at a small fund, family office, or similar context—and is drawn to Stray because (1) you want your operational skills to serve a purpose greater than institutional efficiency and (2) you like being involved in many different projects at the same time.

Fund Finance & LP Relations (~40%)

OwnLP reporting: independently produce narratives, financial schedules, and portfolio summaries within required timelines, coordinating with fund admin as needed. What Stray is attempting is unusual, which makes LP reporting a programmatic function as much as an administrative one. Your reporting, in collaboration with our Sr. Manager of Ecosystem & Impact, should help translate what we are doing to various LP audiences, deepen how they see their own role in it, and show how Stray’s portfolio facilitates systems change that supports LPs’ larger portfolios—all while preserving the substance of the work rather than flattening it into conventional reporting categories.

Serve as Stray’s primary interface with accounting, tax, and fund administration: manage the relationships, arrange capital calls and payments, coordinate tax preparation, and elevate strategic decisions to leadership as needed

Lead the annual audit process end-to-end: coordinate annual financial report preparation, respond to auditor requests, and manage timeline

Team Operations & Ecosystem Logistics (~35%)

Design and own Stray’s operational infrastructure: team workflows, meeting cadences, decision-making frameworks, and cross-functional coordination systems

Collaborate with other team members on external communications and ecosystem weaving: LP update emails, IC engagement infrastructure, portfolio support, ecosystem intelligence tools, and event logistics

Project manage Stray’s experiments and partnerships: assess which efforts we should take on ourselves vs which we can encourage a partner or network to carry, track Stray-owned projects, and keep close tabs on collaborators and next steps, without prescribing outcomes

Own HR workflows including onboarding, hiring, and benefits administration

Maintain and develop Stray’s Notion workspace (with external consultants as needed) as the team’s operational backbone

Portfolio Operations & Financial Modeling (~25%)

Architect and maintain fund model: own portfolio NAV tracking, financialprojections, and scenario analyses that optimize for portfolio-wide anti-fragility, resilience, interconnectedness, and responsible capital stewardship

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