Vice President, Finance Technology

Summary

Join MongoDB as the Vice President of Finance Technology, a key leadership role responsible for the technical delivery supporting the Finance organization. You will lead a global team, develop and execute the finance technology strategy, and manage stakeholders. This role requires extensive experience in finance technology, ERP systems, and people management. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible paid time off, generous parental leave, and various other perks. The role can be based in New York City, Palo Alto, San Francisco, or remotely within the United States. You will be responsible for scaling finance technology to support a growing and complex finance function and driving effective change management.

Requirements

• 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

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

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings