Director Financial Systems

Relativity is looking for a Director to lead the systems team that manages and oversees the administration of key financial and business applications (e.g., Workday, Zuora, Adaptive, etc.) to make the finance organization successful. This position will play a critical part in the design and architecture of scalable finance systems to support the Company’s financial data, business process, automation, and growth initiatives.

As Relativity’s cloud business scales, the role will ensure that usage-based billing, revenue recognition and financial reporting remain accurate, auditable, and highly automated. The role will report to the VP Accounting and work closely with IT, security, and other cross-functional teams. The role will also support the Company’s international (multi-entity, multi-currency) operations, reporting and compliance.

Hybrid/Remote

Relativity is looking for a Director to lead the systems team that manages and oversees the administration of key financial and business applications (e.g., Workday, Zuora, Adaptive, etc.) to make the finance organization successful. This position will play a critical part in the design and architecture of scalable finance systems to support the Company’s financial data, business process, automation, and growth initiatives.

As Relativity’s cloud business scales, the role will ensure that usage-based billing, revenue recognition and financial reporting remain accurate, auditable, and highly automated. The role will report to the VP Accounting and work closely with IT, security, and other cross-functional teams. The role will also support the Company’s international (multi-entity, multi-currency) operations, reporting and compliance.

• Own the design. delivery, and maintenance of financial systems and data including but not limited to: accounting, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and budgeting platforms.
• Develop, implement and maintain policies and procedures for financial system operations, data management, and reporting.
• Oversee the accuracy and integrity of financial data in systems, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and accounting standards.
• Optimize system functionality and drive tight integration across financial processes.
• Oversee system control environment and establish SOX compliant controls and frameworks
• Own IT general controls for in-scope financial systems (access management, change management, segregation of duties, vendor SOC reports) and partner with auditors, IT and security on control testing and remediation.
• Champion the accounting and finance organization’s AI initiatives to help drive design, adoption and AI-managed tasks and projects, including leveraging native application functionality, Claude-driven processes and evaluation of other available AI platforms and technologies.
• Establish governance for AI use in finance workflows, including human review, data privacy, auditability and SOX control considerations.
• Support the flow of customer usage data from the RelativityaiR production environment through metering and rating to customer billing and revenue recognition (ASC 606), including usage reconciliation and data-quality controls.
• Maintain a multi-year financial systems roadmap, budget and vendor strategy, and support acquisition integration and new-entity setup.
• Partner with the IT business intelligence team to design, co-own and maintain the data lake for financial data to support advanced reporting needs and data integration.
• Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies to recommend and implement innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with finance, revenue operations, procurement, global business operations and other teams to understand…