Finance Systems Engineer

The role

You will build systems and automations to help Accounting close faster and maintain financial controls. You will redesign inefficient processes and build reliable, production-ready solutions for the core finance technology stack.

What you will do

• Map the close process and build a prioritized automation roadmap.
• Automate recurring reconciliations, journal-entry support, and close reporting.
• Replace spreadsheet handoffs with controlled, repeatable workflows.
• Build dashboards and alerts for real-time visibility into close status.
• Own the configuration, reliability, and evolution of the core finance technology stack.
• Design and maintain integrations using APIs, webhooks, workflow platforms, and data pipelines.
• Lead implementations and enhancements from requirements gathering through production support.
• Build source-to-target control totals, completeness checks, and data validations.
• Maintain logging, lineage, approval history, and supporting evidence.
• Translate accounting requirements into technical designs.

Required qualifications

• Five or more years of experience across finance systems, business applications, ERP implementation, data engineering, or financial-process automation.
• A demonstrated record of shipping automation that Finance or Accounting teams use in production.
• Strong understanding of core accounting processes, including the general ledger, debits and credits, journal entries, reconciliations, record-to-report, procure-to-pay, and the monthly close.
• Strong SQL skills and working proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or another relevant scripting language.
• Experience designing or supporting integrations through APIs, webhooks, middleware, iPaaS platforms, or ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with a cloud ERP or general-ledger platform such as NetSuite, QuickBooks, Workday Financials, Oracle, SAP, or an equivalent system.
• Experience with testing, version control, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and technical documentation.
• Understanding of internal controls, financial data integrity, access governance, and audit requirements.
• Ability to communicate clearly with accountants, engineers, executives, auditors, and external vendors.
• Strong ownership and judgment.

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth fintech, marketplace, payments, SaaS, or other high-volume transaction environment.
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency, or international accounting systems.
• Familiarity with tools such as Ramp, Stripe, Zip, Coupa, FloQast, BlackLine, Workato, Snowflake, BigQuery, or dbt.
• Experience building controlled AI or document-processing workflows for accounting.
• SOX, ITGC, audit-readiness, or public-company experience.
• Experience building lightweight internal applications for Finance users.
• CPA, CMA, systems certification, or equivalent accounting training.

Benefits

• Best in class cash compensation
• Meaningful equity
• High trust environment with real ownership and direct access to company leaders
• Meals
• Wellness support
• Office benefits designed for an in-person team

About the company

Whop is an in office company of about 100 people. Most of the team are former founders and entrepreneurs.