This role can be based out of our New York City, Palo Alto, or San Francisco offices or remotely in the United States region.
Responsibilities- Develop and gain buy-in for our finance technology strategy and associated roadmap that drives the Company to achieve its business objectives and evolves with the organization’s business strategy
- Define and execute against a rolling twelve-month project roadmap, and provide visibility into a 24-month planning horizon
- Manage stakeholders; Be an integral member of the Finance Leadership Team and act as the trusted technology advisor; Facilitate discussions with key stakeholders across functions and levels, advise on technology and process maturity, data sensitivity, potential tradeoffs, scope creep, and provide implementation options including crawl-walk-run phases
- Uplevel planning and execution processes including cross-functional prioritization and software delivery practices to ensure rapid, quality delivery
- Develop an organizational approach to balance the speed provided by a distributed technology support model with the efficiency of a centralized model
- Continuously evaluate the technology stack to determine where to build, buy/customize, replace
- Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing global talent, and ensure they have deep knowledge of our end-to-end financial operations practices. Eliminate any single points of knowledge
- Remain connected to the broader finance technology community and incorporate best practices and new product offerings into MongoDB
- Liaise with internal teams to ensure our control environment is efficient and effective
- Scale finance technology to support a larger, more complex Finance function
- Play a key role in driving effective change management and communication on technical delivery to non-technical audiences, explaining the “what”, the “how”, and the “why”
- Manage technology operations to ensure system uptime, performance, and data quality
- Partner with key vendors to ensure best-in-class system implementations, including appropriate levels of customization and integration
- Pay down existing technical debt in finance platforms and prevent additional debt from accumulating without oversight and a plan to pay down in the future
- Implement project metrics to hold teams accountable
Qualifications- 10+ years of experience in an IT business systems, business operations, product management, or a consulting role responsible for driving finance service delivery
- 8 years or more of people management, including at least 5 years on the second line of management
- Extensive knowledge of best-in-breed ERP applications, including but not limited to Oracle, SAP, and the NetSuite ecosystem
- Extensive knowledge of core finance processes, including Quote to Cash, Record to Report, Procure to Pay
- Proven experience as part of an ERP replatforming program, preferably migrating from NetSuite
- Deep understanding of the Agile software development methodology and best practices. You have rolled out Agile, you understand what makes a great product owner and scrum master
- Ability to ‘think big’ with a strategic mindset to develop the medium-long term roadmap and strategy, while being able to adapt and be creative in solving problems to meet immediate operational needs
- Able to communicate effectively with both C-suite, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to conceptualize and sell ideas internally and attain win-win outcomes
- Proven track record of building effective relationships with Executives and senior leadership
- Experience integrating data across a plethora of system platforms, ability to define systems ownership, and ability to advise on best practices for master data management
- Track record of sustained successful partnership with cross-functional teams
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and time management skills
- Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously that have fluctuating requirements, and time-sensitive deadlines
Success Measures- In 3 months you will have a deep understanding of your team, the value proposition to the company, and a roadmap for the next 12 months
- In 6 months you will have built-out key initial processes and cemented strong working relationships with your key partners across the business
- In 12 months, having added key hires and implemented key operational processes for scale, you will have cemented the foundation to significantly grow the Finance Technology team over the next several years