Senior Manager, Finance Transformation

Overview

This role supports Finance Transformation efforts for a newly public, hyper-growth organization. You will build a prioritized, governed roadmap that brings together fragmented systems requests, close and control needs, and process-improvement work. Working closely with Accounting leadership and Business Systems/IT, you will establish the operating cadence, prioritization framework, and governance needed for Accounting to make clear trade-offs and move the highest-value work forward, with direct exposure to senior leadership.

This is a remote role based in the US, reporting to the Finance Transformation Lead.

Responsibilities

Stakeholder Partnership & Communication

• Act as a trusted partner across Accounting, Business Systems/IT, FP&A, and external advisors; tailor communication style and depth for operators and decision-ready leadership framing.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings and drive alignment, surfacing decisions early—especially when priorities conflict.
• Serve as the primary Accounting partner for IT triage by translating incidents, enhancement requests, and defects into well-scoped tickets, severity assessments, and business impact statements.
• Partner with Business Systems on requirements, prioritization, testing, and release readiness for NetSuite and connected finance tools (e.g., Zip, FloQast, Workiva).
• Establish a clear triage and escalation process so urgent close, reporting, and control-impacting issues are tracked to resolution across Accounting and IT.
• Coordinate external consultants and implementation partners to achieve sustainable outcomes owned internally.

Portfolio Management & Governance

• Own project-management discipline for the Finance Transformation portfolio, including integrated plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID tracking, decision logs, and escalation.
• Build and maintain dashboards and tracking tools to provide leadership and stakeholders self-serve visibility into progress.
• Consolidate active transformation, systems, and process-improvement work into one prioritized, tiered portfolio with clear owners and expected outcomes.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented leadership updates highlighting trade-offs, blockers, and required decisions.
• Establish and track operating metrics (e.g., cycle times, remediation progress, portfolio health) to measure and communicate transformation impact.

SOX Readiness & Controls

• Convert control gaps, substantive errors, and audit observations into prioritized remediation plans with clear owners, due dates, and evidence requirements.
• Drive root-cause analysis to ensure recurring errors receive durable fixes.
• Partner with control owners across close, reporting, and systems to sequence remediation based on risk, supporting SOX Year 1 readiness and broader public company reporting requirements.

Close Acceleration & Process Improvement

• Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve close cadence, reconciliation quality, and visibility into period-end risk across multiple entities.
• Build repeatable mechanisms for tracking close blockers, root causes, and remediation progress.

First-Year Success Measures

• A single prioritized portfolio built on a shared People-Process-Technology framework, where each item has a clear problem, priority tier, owner, and expected outcome.
• SOX and control readiness, with high-risk control gaps and remediation plans that include ownership, evidence expectations, escalation paths, and support for SOX Year 1 and public company reporting readiness.
• Sustainable operating improvements demonstrated through measurable gains in close execution, control quality, or cycle time, supported by a track record as a collaborative partner across Accounting, IT, and external advisors.

Requirements

• 9+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, accounting operations, internal audit, finance systems, or process improvement, including leading cross-functional projects.
• Strong project/program management skills, including integrated planning, dependency management, risk/issue escalation, and executive reporting. PMP or equivalent a plus.
• Solid accounting fluency (close, reconciliations, journal entries, controls) and ability to translate business needs into system and process requirements.
• Experience partnering with IT/Business Systems on intake, incident triage, prioritization, and release management.
• Experience with SOX, internal controls, or financial reporting risk remediation in a public-company or late-stage pre-IPO environment.
• Comfort operating in a dynamic, hyper-growth environment; practical and feasible-first approach with the ability to adjust quickly as priorities shift.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to flex communication style and depth and facilitate meetings productively when priorities conflict. Experience building or rebuilding a team or function is a plus.
• Hands-on NetSuite experience; multi-entity, international operations exposure (intercompany, FX, consolidation) is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Information Systems. CPA preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP or equivalent.
• Exposure to SOX and financial reporting risk remediation in a public-company or late-stage pre-IPO environment.
• CPA.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay

A market-based pay approach applies and may vary based on location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index.

• Region 1: $170,000 - $200,000
• Region 2: $154,000 - $182,000
• Region 3: $139,000 - $164,000

Successful candidate pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. Ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• One ring for each employee plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave and parental leave

Location

Remote role based in the US.

Candidates residing in the following states are not being considered: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to individuals with disabilities to participate in the interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Recruiting Integrity

Beware of fake job offers. Official listings are available only via the organization’s careers page and trusted job boards. The organization will not ask for personal information like ID or payment for equipment upfront, and official offers are sent through Docusign after a verbal offer—not via text or email.

To all recruitment agencies: the organization does not accept agency resumes and is not responsible for fees related to unsolicited resumes.