Finance & Accounting Lead

Garage is a marketplace for specialized vehicles and equipment, starting with emergency vehicles. By automating every part of the transaction—including payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing—we reduce what used to take months down to minutes. We're building the modern platform that powers commerce across America’s essential industries.

We recently closed a $13.5M Series A ($18M in total funding) from Infinity Ventures, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and other top investors. In less than a year, our team has already served customers in all 50 states – and we’re just getting started.

As Finance & Accounting Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Garage’s early operations, processes, and customer experience around taxes, bookkeeping & compliance. You’ll be an operator at first but we hope you will be able to grow/manage the accounting function as our company scales. You’ll collaborate directly with the founders & our customers to establish the foundation upon which the company grows.

• Own the company’s financial foundation, including accurate financial statements, month-end close, and overall integrity of the books using QuickBooks Online.

• Manage the full lifecycle of marketplace infrastructure and funds flowBuild and implement scalable accounting, reporting, and forecasting systems to support rapid growth

• Monitor and optimize cash flow, including ensuring the right liquidity across accounts and improving overall capital efficiency

• Own core finance operations including AP/AR, payroll, vendor payments, and sales commission calculations

• Define, track, and report on key business metrics (e.g., GMV, take rate, burn, margin) to support internal decision-making and investor reporting

• Strong experience with QuickBooks Online and proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• Strong knowledge of GAAP accrual accounting, including AP/AR and financial statement management

• Extremely detail-oriented with strong reconciliation skills, especially across multiple accounts and systems

• Strong organizational and operational execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously

• Ability to build and improve processes—not just execute existing ones

• Comfortable working in ambiguity and taking ownership in a fast-paced, early-stage environment

• CPA or CPA-track

• Experience in marketplaces, fintech, or transaction-heavy businesses

• Experience at an early-stage startup or building finance processes from the ground up

• We’ve grown revenue >10x last year

• We’ve raised $18M in funding (including a recent $13.5M Series A) and are well capitalized

• We have a product loved by users– used daily to procure mission-critical equipment across the country

• We’re punching well above our weight– everyone joining at this stage will have outsized impact

• We have a talent dense team operating in a high performance culture, in-person in NYC

• We’re backed by world class investors including Y Combinator, Infinity Ventures, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and more

As part of our close-knit team, you’ll be one of the first 30 employees to join alongside the founders. You’ll take on meaningful responsibilities and play a key role in our next stages of growth.

• Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.

• Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.

• Customer focused. We love our customers. Customer success is our success.

• Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.