Senior Manager, Financial Systems

September 6

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Description

• Oversee the implementation of initiatives to enhance and optimize critical financial systems, ensuring alignment with Finance and company goals in partnership with internal stakeholders. • Own the planning and roadmap for the financial systems team, ensuring initiatives and investments are closely aligned with business value. • Establish a robust foundation for scaling the financial systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency in operations, including but not limited to effective intake processes, system implementations, enhancements and maintenance. • Direct the development, implementation and administration of the company's financial systems by managing resource capacity, workloads and ensuring deadlines are met. • Manage projects and the system development life cycle; review, clarify, and/or test deliverables; work with the Finance team to define requirements, conduct needs analysis, determine project specifications, identify solutions, and implement recommendations. • Establish strong partnerships with leaders and cross functional teams to help drive successful implementations, proactively offering recommendations based on best practices and your own experience. • Oversee the financial systems integration during mergers, acquisitions and other key transactions, ensuring the seamless integration of disparate finance systems and processes. • Partner with our Engineering team on enhancements to our home-grown billing and revenue recognition systems. • Manage accurate design and execution of key internal controls over financial systems. • Promote continuous improvement through automation and process transformation. • Quickly learn new technologies, think out-of-the-box to find creative solutions, and communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Coordinate with external vendors and consultants to manage internal work, implementations and support. • Serve as a subject matter expert on financial technology, providing guidance, training, and support to Finance teams and stakeholders across the organization. • Collaborate with Engineering, Legal, and Internal Control teams to ensure a unified approach to data security, business continuity, and compliance across the organization. • Ensure data integrity and accuracy within financial systems through regular audits and quality checks. • Stay updated on industry trends and advancements in financial technology to recommend and implement innovative solutions. • Create and maintain documentation related to financial systems. • Build and develop a team as we scale.

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor's degree in Management Systems, IT or Financial. MBA and/or CPA, CIA, PMP. • 10+ years of proven experience as a Financial Systems professional with at least 5 years in a people management capacity. • Prior experience and strong understanding of ERP technology and financial systems with proven experience with Netsuite, Workday Adaptive, and/or Coupa. • Proven experience being a liaison between finance, product and engineering departments with experience driving excellence through end-to-end ownership and collaboration. • Strong knowledge of Accounting, FP&A and internal control activities, with a process improvement mindset. • A data-driven approach to complex system issues. • Experience leading system implementation and enhancements projects, with a focus on cross functional teamwork. • Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance standards related to financial systems, such as SOX, PCI or GDPR.

Benefits

• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums • Fertility and adoption benefits • Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage • Headspace mindfulness app subscription • Retirement benefits with employer match • Flexible paid time off • 12 to 20 weeks of paid family leave • Equity plan for all employees • Pretax commuter benefit • Education reimbursement • Employee donation match to community organizations • 6 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) • Dog-friendly workplace • Free lunch and snacks • Private rooftop