Financial Director

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Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,000 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

• Set the strategy, operating model, roadmap, and priorities for global financial control across reporting and compliance, tax, financial operations, and vendor management and procurement.
• Ensure NetSuite and the Cloud Data Warehouse provide consistent, transparent, and trusted financial information across the business.
• Lead the financial control automation and AI agenda, including the data foundations, definitions, documentation, and operating rhythms needed to make automation a lasting capability.
• Provide senior oversight across record-to-report, statutory reporting, tax, payroll, and vendor management and procurement. Step in on escalations, complex judgement calls, and cross-functional trade-offs while empowering the functional leaders to own delivery.
• Represent financial control to the SVP, Executive team, Board, and external auditors, and act as the primary escalation point and trusted partner for the four functional leads.
• Lead the North American payroll outsourcing transition from vendor governance through to business-as-usual handover, with a strong focus on compliance and operational risk.
• Partner with Strategic Finance, Strategy and BizOps, Legal, People, and Engineering on finance systems, process design, risk, compliance, reporting, and financial insight. This role does not own forecasting or planning.
• Own and evolve financial policies, procedures, and control frameworks so they scale with Culture Amp’s complexity and growth.
• Lead, develop, and build succession depth across a team of finance directors and managers, creating a strong and connected team culture.
• Support financial due diligence and transaction readiness for M&A activity, including data-room delivery, carve-out or integration accounting, and post-deal financial control integration.
• Champion the use of Culture Amp’s platform and other automation and AI tools in Finance, acting as an internal advocate for Customer Zero practices.

• Significant experience leading a global financial control or controllership function in a fast-growing SaaS or technology business, including multi-entity and multi-currency environments.
• Deep technical accounting and financial reporting expertise, including consolidation and external audit management.
• A proven track record in finance transformation, systems modernisation, and process automation, such as ERP transitions, close automation, or RPA, with measurable efficiency gains.
• Strong understanding of core finance processes and technologies, ideally gained in a modern, highly automated, and systematised finance environment.
• Experience overseeing global tax and payroll compliance, or partnering closely with specialist teams to manage risk.
• Experience setting a multi-year strategy and target operating model for financial control or controllership, not just executing an existing plan.
• Demonstrated people leadership through periods of growth and change, including building high-performing teams and succession depth.
• Experience with financial due diligence or M&A, including data-room management, carve-out or integration accounting, and post-deal control integration, or equivalent transaction-readiness experience.