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Head of Finance

🏢 Tensec · 📍 Palo Alto · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ FullTime
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Tensec

Tensec is Vertical AI for cross-border trade. Trade is two flows, money and goods, and the trading companies that move them: freight forwarders, shipping lines, customs brokers, 4PLs — still run both on systems built for large corporations and a lot of manual work. Tensec is the agentic AI layer those companies use to move both flows for their importer and exporter clients. Cross-border B2B is a $50 trillion market and we're building the version all global trading companies choose to use.

We started with clients in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico and today enable their transactions across 50+ countries, onboarding enterprise trading companies whose trade flows run to billions of dollars a year across every major corridor. Founded in 2023 by a team that has built and exited startups and run global teams at Meta, PayPal, Credit Karma, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Tensec is backed by world-class investors such as Quiet Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Renegade Partners, Clocktower, and WillowTree.

The role

Tensec is growing fast. Our finance decisions are getting harder and more valuable each day. Goods move around the world; the money that pays for them crosses multiple currencies and Tensec's global entities, and revenue moves with volume, spread, and FX. The decisions ahead are the good kind: how to price, how aggressively to invest, which markets to open next.

Tensec Finance needs a world-class player-coach, and the canvas is white: you build the operating model, budget, runway, pricing and unit economics, cap table, and the team, and you sit next to the CEO on every decision that spends or invests money.

This is a head role with hands-on-keyboard work and a path to CFO: build the function, scale it with the company, and grow into the seat. Tensec is AI-native, so reporting, forecasting, and close prep run on automation and your time goes to decisions, not data pulls. Build with AI first, hire second. Accounting stays outsourced for now, and you manage it.

This role is based in Palo Alto or New York, hybrid, with 3 days a week in the office.

Outcomes: your fir

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