Head of Engineering, Finance Systems

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the company went public in 2023 and is scaling fast. This is a rare chance to architect the Finance systems foundation for a company at this inflection point. The Finance Technology Systems team is part of G&A Systems within Global Technology Solutions (GTS). This group designs, operates, and continually improves the applications and workflows that power how the company manages money, risk, and financial reporting at scale.

The team partners closely with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Procurement, and Internal Audit, as well as adjacent technology teams like Corporate IT, Data, and GTM Systems, to ensure our back‑office stack is reliable, well‑integrated, compliant, and ready for a public, AI‑forward SaaS business. We own the roadmap, health, and governance of platforms including our ERP and financial systems (e.g., Net Suite/Oracle), procure‑to‑pay (e.g., Coupa), revenue and billing systems, and related integrations and automation.

This role reports to the Senior Director, G&A Systems and leads the team responsible for Finance Technology Solutions across the company.

As the Head of Engineering, Finance Systems, you will be the accountable technology leader for the company’s Finance application landscape and core financial workflows. You will define and execute the multi‑year vision for our Finance systems, lead a high‑performing team, and partner with senior Finance and GTS leaders to deliver automation, control, and insight across our procure‑to‑pay, record‑to‑report, and order‑to‑cash processes.

• Define and maintain the multi‑year strategy and roadmap for the company’s Finance technology stack (ERP, procure‑to‑pay, revenue and billing, treasury, close and reconciliation tooling), aligned to the CFO’s agenda and the company’s financial plan.

• Translate Finance, Accounting, Tax, and FP&A objectives into clear systems investments and sequencing, balancing foundational platform work with high‑impact automation and analytics use cases.

• Manage and grow a team of application owners, business systems analysts, administrators, and integration specialists who collectively own the Finance systems portfolio and its integrations.

• Set clear expectations around domain ownership, service reliability, partnership with Finance stakeholders, and measurable business outcomes; build strong succession and leadership bench strength within the team.

• Lead the company's push to make Finance one of the most automated, insight-driven functions in the company. You'll identify and deliver high-value AI use cases across the Finance workflow.

• You'll partner directly with the company's AI and data platform teams to embed AI into core Finance processes with clear guardrails, measurable productivity gains, and the rigor expected of a public company. This isn't a future‑state vision, it's work already underway, and you'll own it.

• Partner with Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Procurement leaders to design and continuously refine end‑to‑end Finance workflows across procure‑to‑pay, record‑to‑report, and order‑to‑cash, ensuring systems and processes are tightly aligned.

• Ensure our ERP and Finance…