Overview
About Astra

Astra is building mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale. Our platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime, powering real-time transfers, bank debits, card disbursements, and complex financial compliance systems. We provide APIs and automation tools that enable businesses to move money programmatically while maintaining strict regulatory requirements.
The Role

Astra is seeking a Head of Finance to lead and scale our finance function during a period of rapid growth. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will own the company's financial strategy, planning, reporting, and operational rigor, while serving as a key thought partner to the leadership team.

We're looking for a strategic finance leader who can help shape how the business scales — from pricing strategy and capital planning to long-range forecasting, investor readiness, and operational decision-making. This is a highly impactful role that sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution.



You will build the financial infrastructure that enables Astra to scale efficiently, provide visibility into company performance, support fundraising and board reporting, and help drive critical decisions across every department.

As Astra’s first finance leader, you’ll own the oversight of tactical work, while defining processes, standard procedures, and building a team to deliver for our quick-growing company’s operational needs. With those foundational systems in place, you will be expected to direct and grow that function rather than execute it yourself – freeing you to focus on the financial strategy, modeling, and investor-facing work that the business needs most right now. Over time, you'll build out the team further as Astra's needs grow.

The ideal candidate has helped scale a venture-backed fintech, payments, or infrastructure company through multiple stages of growth, ideally from seed or Series A through later-stage scale, and has

📌 Head of Finance (India)
🏢 ASTRA
📍 India