Scale

Head of Finance Transformation

Scale

Remote job description

We are building the Finance team to help make data-driven and financially sound decisions for Scale. The Finance team is responsible for improving strategic, financial and operational decisions by partnering with the leadership team in making critical decisions across Scale.

The Finance Transformation team will play a critical role in ensuring the Finance and Accounting team has the right insight, tools, and processes it needs to run effectively and efficiently. This is our first hire in the Finance Transformation team - you will work closely across finance and accounting and many cross-functional stakeholders to transform our finance capabilities through improved business processes and automation. This role will create the vision and roadmap for the function - ensure consistent and thoughtful application of best practices ranging from policies and procedures and process improvement. You will partner with stakeholders to apply critical and strategic thinking, influence decisions and create solutions that will benefit the whole organization.

What you'll be doing:

  • Establish processes that will govern how the Finance team approaches process and technology solutions
  • Partner with leaders across IT, Analytics, Data Engineering, Sales Operations, Accounting, Finance to develop and establish a transformation mindset focused on long-term scale
  • Build trusted partnerships with many stakeholders (e.g. GTM, Operations, EPD, Legal, etc.) to collaborate, identify risks and establish transparency to mitigate unexpected impacts to the Finance team
  • Partner with IT team to establish and maintain technology roadmap for all Financial System applications and own the strategy and the execution of that roadmap
  • Drive the company's tooling strategy and execution of critical initiatives (e.g. quote-to-cash, invoicing, and procure-to-pay)
  • Create and maintain an inventory of core finance processes, systems and tools
  • Oversee overall program execution, including enablement of teams and successful adoption of improved processes and tools across the entire Finance and Accounting teams
  • Lead critical major cross-functional initiatives and projects for the finance organization including system implementations, operational improvements and international expansion
  • Serve as the primary Finance business technology representative in major cross functional initiatives
  • Develop a baseline understanding of all existing finance processes and partner closely with the Analytics team to revamp existing infrastructure to prepare the company for audit

What we're looking for:

  • Bachelor's degree with a major in Finance and/or Accounting; or equivalent years of experience
  • 10+ years of relevant work experience around finance/accounting process and systems implementation lifecycles
  • Knowledge and experience with financial system applications such as Salesforce / CPQ, NetSuite, Coupa, Anaplan, Adaptive Systems, Workday, Tableau, Snowflake
  • Experience in process improvement methodologies and leading organizational transformation practices
  • Managing team members in a dynamic environment
  • IPO and audit experience

About Us:

At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how machine learning can build innovative products. Our products provide access to human-powered data for hundreds of use cases and are used by industry leaders such as Open AI, Lyft, Meta, GM, Samsung, Airbnb, NVIDIA, and many more. We've recently raised $325 million in Series E funding at a valuation of $7B+ and are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.




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Company name: Scale
Remote job title: Head of Finance Transformation
Job tags: api, software

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