Director, Finance Operations
About The Position
Spark Advisors is building healthcare technology to address the complexities seniors face with Medicare plans, which can impact their prescriptions, access to care, and finances. Independent Medicare advisors are crucial in guiding seniors, but have been hindered by outdated tools. Spark provides a platform combining AI, CRM, and client services to help over 10,000 brokers acquire, enroll, and support clients. The team includes talent from companies like Square, Ramp, Yext, Oscar, and Cedar, and is backed by Primary Ventures and Viewpoint Ventures. Spark offers remote work, sabbaticals, and company retreats, and was recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces of 2025. The company is seeking individuals to help redefine the future of healthcare technology.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years in finance/accounting operations, with experience designing and building systems for a complex, high-volume transaction or payments engine (commissions, payouts, marketplace/settlement, revenue operations, or similar).
- Experience in systems/process design, rebuilding messy finance operations.
- Real accounting fluency (close, controls, GAAP) sufficient to eventually own controllership directly.
- Operational depth to set and enforce standards for AR/AP/payroll.
- Track record of building from scratch in a fast-scaling, still-messy environment (post-remediation or Series A→C stage).
- Strong data/analytical chops, fluent in Excel.
- Comfortable partnering with a data team on SQL/warehouse-backed reconciliation.
- Experience managing outsourced accounting/finance providers, ideally including transitioning work in-house before.
Nice To Haves
- Multi-entity accounting
- QuickBooks
- Tipalti
- Airtable
- Snowflake/Hex
- Automation / AI-enablement instinct for finance workflows
- CPA and/or prior Controller title
Responsibilities
- Design and build the finance operating system, re-architecting manual processes into scalable, auditable systems for commissions, marketing co-op, rate/override source-of-truth, and reconciliation.
- Set finance requirements for the Data team's commissions database/calculator and own build-vs-buy decisions.
- Own financial accuracy end-to-end, setting and enforcing standards, controls, and reconciliation frameworks for payments and related financials.
- Own accounting and controllership directly, including AR, AP, and payroll standards and outcomes.
- Own and evolve the outsourced controllership relationship, directing and reviewing the external accounting firm's monthly close and statements, and building internal capability to bring close/controllership in-house.
- Own reporting integrity, ensuring financials and reporting are trustworthy and on time, and owning recurring and bespoke deliverables like lender/debt-facility reporting, diligence data rooms, and leadership requests.
- Provide an owned, well-designed system for commission processing, disbursement, and banking runs, supporting the existing agency-finance team.
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Health care, including dental and vision
- Flexible work location
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Monthly Remote Work Stipend
- Paid Parental Leave (Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents, Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents)
- 11 paid holidays
- 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
- Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
