Senior Director, Financial Control

The role

You will lead and modernize the global financial control function. This includes setting the strategy and operating model for reporting, compliance, tax, financial operations, and vendor management.

What you will do

• Set the strategy, operating model, roadmap, and priorities for global financial control
• Ensure NetSuite and the Cloud Data Warehouse provide consistent financial information
• Lead the financial control automation and AI agenda
• Provide senior oversight across record-to-report, statutory reporting, tax, payroll, and vendor management
• Represent financial control to the SVP, Executive team, Board, and external auditors
• Lead the North American payroll outsourcing transition
• Partner with Strategic Finance, Strategy, Legal, People, and Engineering
• Own and evolve financial policies, procedures, and control frameworks
• Lead, develop, and build succession depth across a team of finance directors and managers
• Support financial due diligence and transaction readiness for M&A activity

Required qualifications

• 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
• Strong understanding of core finance processes and technologies
• Experience overseeing global tax and payroll compliance
• Experience setting a multi-year strategy and target operating model for financial control or controllership
• Demonstrated people leadership through periods of growth and change
• Experience with financial due diligence or M&A
• Experience operating with full ownership of a finance function, including Board- and audit-committee-level communication
• CA, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Significant post-qualification experience operating at Director or Senior Director level in a scaled, multi-entity SaaS or technology business

Benefits

• Equity through our Employee Share Option Program
• Learning programs and coaching
• Quarterly refresh days
• An extended end-of-year break
• A monthly allowance to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Inclusive parental leave from day one
• A MacBook and budget to set up your home workspace
• Five annual social impact days
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

About the company

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform. It empowers companies to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams.