Finance Operations Analyst

Valinor Enterprises, Inc.•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Valinor is seeking a highly organized Finance Operations Analyst to execute and improve the day-to-day financial operations that support its Hub and Product Companies. The role spans multiple entities, bank accounts, software instances, and spend programs. The position emphasizes reliable execution while also redesigning recurring workflows to reduce manual effort through scalable systems and automation. As part of a lean team, the analyst is expected to take ownership of problems and deliver dependable outcomes.

Requirements

3–5 years of experience in finance operations, accounting operations, accounts payable, or accounts receivable.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Working knowledge of accrual accounting, charts of accounts, account reconciliations, and month-end close mechanics.
Hands-on experience with a modern spend management platform, a cloud general ledger, and no-code databases.
Strong spreadsheet skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and SUMIFS.
Vigilance around payment risk, including verifying bank details, preventing duplicate payments, following approval policies, and recognizing phishing and fraud attempts.
Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and data quality; ability to close the loop on each item.
Clear, prompt, and friendly communication with vendors, customers, and teammates.
Ability to deliver accurately under tight deadlines, competing priorities, and changing requirements.
Proactive ownership of identifying workflow gaps, inefficiencies, or failure points and designing and implementing solutions.
Sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive financial, payroll, and equity information.
Must be a U.S. Person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 and based in the United States, due to access to information, materials, and technologies subject to U.S. export controls.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a high-growth startup, a multi-entity company, or an accounting firm serving venture-backed clients.
Experience in aerospace, defense, hardware, or government contracting.
Experience with platforms such as Ramp, QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, or Airtable.

Responsibilities

Triage shared Finance mailboxes and the ticket queue, resolve routine questions and requests, document approvals, and escalate exceptions and judgment calls.
Serve as a key point of contact for Financial Operations and collaborate with Growth, Procurement, Accounting, Product, and Engineering.
Own and support billing and invoicing, including coordinating with Growth at deal signing and delivery milestones, issuing customer invoices, maintaining the receivables tracker, and managing dunning and collections.
Manage the Accounts Payable queue with the outsourced Accounting team; validate bills against purchase orders and completed work, schedule payments, and enforce expense and reimbursement policies.
Monitor balances and activity across entity bank accounts, ensure funds are available for payroll and bill runs, and promptly flag unusual activity.
Provide accounting partners with timely monthly-close inputs, including bank statements, receivables and payables detail, and payroll alignment with the People team.
Improve cost tracking and financial reporting, and conduct data-health checks to ensure reporting tools match the general ledger.
Execute quarterly entity workflows, including intra-company funding disbursements, maintaining related schedules, internal expense allocations, and internal invoicing.
Prepare state tax registrations, maintain registration and filing schedules, and support Product Companies and Procurement with documentation for tax-exempt purchases.
Administer and improve the spend management platform, including user setup and support, configuration, feature deployment, and fixes.
Document recurring workflows in playbooks, maintain the activity checklist, and identify and implement product features and automations that reduce manual work and errors.
Adapt as the Finance function, infrastructure, and company scale.