Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.
The Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But international fintechs and banks are left with two unsatisfying options to choose from: Either build on legacy correspondent banks that are slow and unreliable, or interface with middleware providers that neither move nor hold the dollars directly, but instead rely on underlying legacy banks themselves. At Augustus, we collapse the stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.
We are a group of ex-founders, founding employees of unicorns, and people who dropped out of university because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and Etched.
We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now, we are building the US team from the ground up, while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe.
THE ROLE
As CFO Associate at Augustus, you will report to the CFO and work across the whole finance function of a bank: accounts payable and receivable, budgeting and forecasting, the monthly close and the general ledger, board and committee reporting, investor and regulatory reporting, and the financial audit. Finance at Augustus is built like the rest of the organisation: lean, and running on systems rather than headcount. Legacy banks scale finance with people. We build flows that make the work disappear.
You start by taking over the day-to-day work. Then you rebuild it. Every process you run, you think of ways to improve it - not to execute faster, but to remove the manual step altogether. By month six, the day to day runs hands-off and you own projects with engineering, parts of the close, and reporting.
This is the role for someone who wants to run finance one day and understands that the fastest way there is to see every part of a finance organization from the inside, at the moment it is being built.
YOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS
•Months 1-2: Take over the day-to-day. Run accounts payable end-to-end: set up new vendors, review the bills our automated workflow creates, resolve missing payment accounts and legal entities, and coach colleagues on their part of the process. Run accounts receivable. Sit inside the monthly close, review every system-generated reconciliation and trace every out-of-balance to its root cause. Learn where the process breaks.
•Months 3-4: Ship the first wave of improvements. Turn the flows you ran by hand into AI-supported flows. Design the reconciliations that don’t exist yet. Contribute to your first board pack: financial statements, variance analysis and forecast.
•Months 5-6: Own entire projects. You take a new initiative from a blank page to a running process. The manual work from month one runs hands-off; you handle the judgment calls.
•After Month 6: Support our growth through financial analysis of new products and geographies, and build straight-through processes to manage the related workflow
WHO WILL THRIVE AT AUGUSTUS
We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. We’re building a modern correspondent bank, and we win by having a better team. The people who succeed here share the following traits:
•American Dream: You’d rather shoot for gold than settle for mediocrity. You pick the harder goal and stay optimistic when the odds are against you. If it feels easy, we aimed too low.
•Live Player: You don’t need permission. You rebuild what’s broken without being asked, challenge how things are done, and move before the perfect moment.
•Ever to Excel: You can’t accept good enough and you take your work personally. When it matters, you do what it takes and keep raising the bar for yourself and your team.
•Genuine: You play for the company, not your title or turf. Low ego, low drama, no politics. You say it straight, also upwards and always assume good intent.
This role is for you if:
•You want to be a CFO one day. You know the fastest way there is not a title but breadth: close, AP, AR, audit, regulatory, budgeting, treasury, investor relations, and board reporting - all within your first year, all inside a bank being built from scratch.
•You’ve done the work you’d be automating and it bothered you that it was manual.
•You see AI as a way of working, not a feature. You measure yourself by the manual work you’ve removed, not the hours you’ve put in.
•You want to build a lean finance function: the controls, the reconciliations, the reporting pack. You draft them, defend them and rewrite them when they break.
This is not for you if:
•You want to specialize. This is a generalistic role across all finance functions.
•You measure your impact by the size of your team. Success here looks like the bank multiplying in volume while the finance function stays small.
•You prefer a mature playbook to a blank page. No close checklist tuned over five years, no ERP consultants on retainer, no team standing by.
•You’re above the work. Before anything gets automated here, someone has to run AP by hand, review the bills and understand the close completely - including you.
HARD REQUIREMENTS
•2+ years in investment banking, finance or accounting roles - at a bank, fintech, high-growth startup, or in audit.
•Hands-on accounting fundamentals: you have worked a monthly close, you can read a general ledger, and you can trace a reconciling item to its root cause.
•You use AI tools in your daily work today and can show the manual work they replaced.
•Based in New York or Berlin, or willing to relocate.
PAY TRANSPARENCY
Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is [X]-[Y] + equity.
WHAT WE OFFER
•Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.
•Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.
•Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.
•Perks & Benefits: Relocation support, visa support, the latest Apple gear (MacBook + AirPods), lunch benefit, gym benefit, a beautiful office in the heart of the city, 4x on-/offsites per year, and an annual development budget.
Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.
Augustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. Augustus will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious beliefs, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, age, parental or veteran status.