Finance Associate
Encord
Finance Associate
Encord
AI-native data infrastructure for Physical AI
We're solving AI's hardest problem: alignment.
Encord is the data layer for Physical AI and enterprise, serving as core infrastructure for 300+ of the world's leading AI teams, including Woven by Toyota, Hitachi, Skydio, AbbVie and Dyna, Walden and Agility Robotics. From autonomous vehicles and robotics to sports and healthcare, we're solving AI's hardest problem: turning complex, real-world data into production-ready intelligent systems.
We're a team of founders, scientists, quants, researchers, and former Olympians, who’ve helped build some of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley, and alumni of MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, and Imperial. We’ve raised $110M from legendary technology investors, early backers of companies like Databricks, ElevenLabs and Vercel, and we’re growing at an extraordinary pace.
We're looking for exceptional people who want to help build a category-defining company, operating with high urgency and taking real ownership to help shape the future of AI.
As Finance Associate at Encord, you'll own the operational core of our finance function, including: supplier payments, customer invoicing, and month-end reconciliations - ensuring everything runs accurately and on time. You'll partner closely with the wider finance function and cross-functional teams across the business, helping make finance a great partner to the rest of the company. The day-to-day processes are yours to run and improve: where something is manual or unclear, you'll have the real opportunity to make it better. It's a strong fit for someone early in their finance career who takes ownership seriously and wants their work to underpin the teams building tools for multimodal AI.
Manage day-to-day bookkeeping, accounts payable, VAT returns and accounts receivable.
Process employee expense reports and ensure adherence to company policies.
Oversee client invoicing and manage billing workflows.
Assist with month-end close procedures, bank reconciliations, and general ledger maintenance.
Support financial reporting, budgeting, and variance analysis.
Collaborate on ad-hoc finance and operational projects as they arise.
Precision in the core. You take pride in managing the transactional heart of the company. You aren't just processing invoices or reconciling accounts; you view accuracy in bookkeeping and compliance as the critical foundation that allows us to move fast and make informed decisions.
A builder of systems. You don’t just accept manual processes as status quo. Whether it’s improving expense workflows or refining billing, you look for the "better way" to do things, ensuring our financial systems scale as quickly as our business.
Collaborative by nature. You recognize that effective finance isn’t a back-office function—it’s a partner to the business. You’re ready to bridge the gap between financial operations and the cross-functional teams building the tools for multimodal AI.
Ready for high-growth ownership. You are early in your finance career, but you crave responsibility. You want a role where your daily output directly supports our growth, and you’re hungry for the professional development that comes from operating in a fast-paced environment.
Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
1-2 years of experience in a finance, accounting, or analytical role (tech or startup experience is a plus, but not required).
Solid foundational knowledge of bookkeeping, accounts payable/receivable, and invoicing.
Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and organizational skills.
Proficiency in spreadsheet software and financial tools. An understanding of AI-native finance stacks would be advantageous
Proactive mindset with the ability to adapt in a fast-paced, growing environment.
Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly
Strong in-person culture: 4 days/week
Daily team lunches & dinners
Annual learning & development budget
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
US employees: 18 paid vacation days plus US public holidays
UK employees: 25 paid vacation days plus UK public holidays
Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
Bi-annual company offsites & monthly socials
High agency
You see something broken, you fix it or find the person who can. We celebrate the people who solve 90% of a problem before anyone asks.
Build with care & urgency
We bear-hug the customer. Former founders and people from fast-moving, high-stakes environments thrive here.
Self-aware & hungry
We stay warm, self-aware, and genuinely hungry. We elevate our peers, and ego doesn't last long.
Invent in real time
We move toward the ambiguity. We’re pragmatic, resourceful, energized by the fact that there's no playbook.
If you're looking to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who push you to be better, we'd love to meet you.
Encord provides an AI-native data infrastructure platform for Physical AI, helping enterprises manage multimodal data for robotics, autonomous systems, and related applications. It offers Encord Annotate for collaborative multimodal annotation, Encord Active for data curation and quality evaluation, and Encord Index for petabyte-scale dataset search and management, covering the full data lifecycle from collection to deployment. The platform acts as a universal data layer for production-grade Physical AI, addressing the infrastructure gap left by cloud-era tools focused on text and tabular data and emphasizing multimodal data and embodied AI. Its goal is to enable teams to build, evaluate, and deploy real-world AI systems more efficiently with scalable, reliable data tooling.
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