Finance

Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech.

Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century.

We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.

We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. Our team primarily works in-person out of our San Francisco and NYC offices. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!

The Role

As the first Finance hire at Tempo, you’ll be on the ground floor of building out the finance function and will be key to making sure the company builds the right financial machinery.

Responsibilities

• Modeling & Forecasting

  • Build and maintain detailed financial models for budgets, forecasts, and scenario planning

  • Analyze business performance and key metrics across revenue, expenses, and margins

  • Partner with product, growth, and operations teams to gather inputs and validate assumptions

• Cash Management & Planning

  • Manage cash forecasting and runway analysis to ensure alignment with company growth goals

  • Monitor spend against budget and identify opportunities for efficiency.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with internal teams to extract, clean, and interpret financial and operational data

  • Support finance leadership in building scalable processes for reporting and planning

• Crypto Support

  • Own a range of crypto-asset and fiat finance, treasury, and accounting priorities including calculating and tracking various revenue models, wallet structures, and liquidity management.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of startup or high growth tech company experience in a finance-focused role, with at least two years of experience in an assistant controller or senior accounting manager role.

• Experience managing and accounting for digital assets

• BA/BS

• Bonus: strong familiarity with AI finance tools and workflow improvements

Attributes

• Excellent financial management skills, with an eye for detail

• Highly adaptable and comfortable working in ambiguous environments

• Self-starter with a bias towards action and enjoys building machinery

• Scrappiness; willingness to roll up sleeves and pitch in wherever needed

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Passion for crypto and/or fintech required