Strategic Finance Lead, Afresh
$160-220k
+ Equity
More information about location
SaaS for grocery store operations
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SaaS for grocery store operations
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-220k
+ Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of progressive FP&A or strategic finance experience, ideally at a high-growth startup or technology company. (We care more about the caliber of your work than the exact number of years.)
- Exceptional financial modeling skills — you build complex, elegant, and genuinely usable models, and you're a wizard with the tools of the trade
- Demonstrated use of AI in your work — you've already applied AI tools to forecasting, analysis, automation, or reporting, or you have a clear track record of adopting new technology to work smarter
- A strong grasp of GAAP, the three financial statements, and how they connect
- Proven ability to analyze financial data, find the signal, and communicate it clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, and the judgment to tailor the message to the audience — from an analyst to the CEO
- Experience with financial planning and reporting software; comfort with SQL or BI tools is a plus
- A proactive, ownership-driven mindset — you're comfortable being the one person accountable for FP&A and you thrive without a playbook
- The ability to move fast, manage competing priorities, and stay accurate under pressure
- A collaborative spirit and a knack for building trust across the organization
- Bonus: experience in enterprise SaaS, supply chain, or the grocery/retail space
- If you're energized by the idea of shaping both the numbers and the way modern finance gets done, this is your role
What the job involves
- We're looking for a sharp, proactive Strategic Finance Lead to be the beating heart of financial planning and analysis on our Strategy & Finance team
- This is a rare build-it role: you'll be our sole dedicated FP&A partner, owning the models, forecasts, and insights that guide decision-making across the company — and reporting directly to the VP of Strategy & Finance
- What makes this seat different is how we expect the work to get done. We're not looking for someone to rebuild the same static spreadsheets faster. We want a finance operator who treats AI as a core part of their toolkit — using it to sharpen forecasts, pressure-test assumptions, automate the manual, and surface the insights that move the business
- You'll join a fast-paced, mission-driven Series B environment where your analysis directly informs how leadership allocates capital, sets targets, and places bets
- You'll partner across every function, develop a deep understanding of the business, and see your work reflected in the decisions that shape our trajectory
- Own forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning — build and maintain the financial models that drive the annual budget, quarterly and monthly forecasts, and multi-year strategic plans
- Run the planning cycles end to end — partner with department heads to build plans that are both realistic and ambitious, and hold the process together as the single owner of FP&A
- Turn results into insight — analyze actuals against budget and forecast, explain the variances, and translate what happened into what we should do next
- Define and track the metrics that matter — develop KPIs and build clear, trustworthy dashboards and reporting that tell leadership the truth about performance quickly
- Be a true business partner — embed with Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Operations to support strategic initiatives with financial analysis and a point of view
- Inform the big decisions — prepare board-quality analysis and presentations for the executive team on financial performance, unit economics, and key business drivers
- Support strategic and ad-hoc work — model scenarios for fundraising, new product launches, pricing, and market expansion, and stand up analysis on whatever question is most important that week
- Raise the bar on how finance operates — drive process improvements across the FP&A function to make it faster, more accurate, and more scalable as the company grows
- How You'll Use AI in This Role:
- We believe AI is reshaping what a lean finance team can accomplish, and we want someone who is already leaning into it — or hungry to. This isn't a buzzword on the JD; it's a real expectation of how you'll work day to day. In this role, you'll:
- Sharpen forecasting and modeling with AI — use AI tools and techniques to improve forecast accuracy, test assumptions, run scenarios faster, and stress-test the models behind key decisions
- Automate the manual — apply AI to streamline data gathering, reconciliation, reporting, and the repetitive parts of the close and planning cycles, so your time goes to analysis instead of assembly
- Generate insight, not just outputs — use AI to interrogate large and messy datasets, surface patterns and anomalies, and pull out the business insights that drive decisions
- Help set the standard — experiment with new AI-enabled finance tools and workflows, and help establish how our finance function uses AI responsibly and effectively as we scale
- You don't need to be an engineer. You do need to be genuinely curious about these tools, comfortable putting them to work, and thoughtful about where AI adds rigor versus where human judgment has to lead
- Why This Role:
- Real ownership from day one — you'll own FP&A outright, with direct exposure to the VP of Strategy & Finance and the executive team
- High-leverage impact — your analysis directly shapes how the company plans, invests, and grows through a pivotal stage
- Build the future of finance — a genuine mandate to bring AI into how a modern finance function operates, not just permission to tinker at the edges
Our take
Outdated inventory systems remain a major issue for grocers, particularly when it comes to fresh food. Many still rely on manual processes or rigid software that struggles to account for constantly changing factors like demand, shelf life and supply fluctuations. The result is over-ordering, wasted food and unnecessary costs, all problems that become even harder to manage at scale.
Afresh is tackling this with an AI-powered platform built specifically for fresh food operations. Its system helps grocers forecast demand, manage inventory and make smarter ordering decisions across categories like produce, meat and bakery. What started as a replenishment tool has expanded into a broader operating system, supporting planning, buying and day-to-day decision-making across store teams.
The company has grown quickly too, now supporting more than 12,000 grocery departments across North American and partnering with major retailers like Albertsons, Meijer and Wakefern. Following a year of strong growth and new product launches, Afresh is expanding its reach across the food supply chain, with ambitions that go beyond the store level. As pressure mounts on grocers to reduce waste and improve margins, Afresh is ready to be a key player in bringing AI-driven decision-making to the entire fresh food ecosystem.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2026
$34m
LATE VC
Aug 2022
$115m
SERIES B
Total funding: $181.8m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- Generous parental leave
- Equity packages
- 401k matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- Professional development program
- Work from home stipend
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt Schwartz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Afresh in 2016, Matt worked as a Consultant for Bain & Company.
Nathan Fenner
(Co-Founder & CPO)Nathan has a Bachelors, Masters and MBA from Stanford University. Post studying, they became a Lecturer at Stanford in the Mechanical Engineering department before working at Liquid Robotics for 5 years.
Kristina Kemmer
(CTO)Kristina joined Afresh in 2023 as a Senior VP of Engineering, moving into the role of CTO in 2025. Prior to Afresh, she spent 4 years at Zapier as a Director/VP of Engineering and 2 years at InVision as an Engineering, then Senior Engineering Manager.
Adam Litle
(CRO)Prior to joining Afresh in 2025, Adam was the CEO of Sound Agriculture for over 5 years. He also served as the CRO at Granular for nearly 3 years and worked as a VP of Sales at Monetate for 1 year.
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