Senior Manager, Finance Systems - Apollo.io
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
About the Job
Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. Apollo.io is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us.
The Role
As the Senior Manager, Finance systems, you will partner cross-functionally with leaders within the general and administrative function and across multiple functions such as engineering, product, and security. You will be responsible for maintaining, enhancing and expanding the tools used across finance to enable the function to scale and be looked upon to effectively influence stakeholders.
You are a multi-tool finance systems expert capable of delivering technical solutions supporting core accounting processes. Strong communication and project management skills are a must as well as the ability to navigate in a complex and fast-changing environment. This role will manage one teammate and report to our VP, Global Controller.
Position Responsibilities
- Architect, configure, and support core finance system solutions to improve accounting operations
- Maintain a detailed systems roadmap, with a 3 to 5 year view, that sits across all aspects of finance. This roadmap is to include ERP and planning tools, payroll, purchasing, billing/rev rec, and other systems as identified
- Identify/source resources to deliver on roadmap initiatives, managing them for success
- Use deep systems expertise to resolve technical issues and redesign processes to improve operational efficiency through automation; evaluate system alternatives and effects on functionality, effort, performance, and operations
- Help develop scalable financial processes related to month-end close, including accruals and reporting all with an eye toward condensing the team's time to close
- Ensure procedures, processes, and proper change controls are followed on all production changes and implementation projects
- Oversee user access management and establish quarterly review process to resolve segregation of duties conflicts
- Work with an eye towards future SOX compliance and always keep change management frameworks top of mind
- Manage, develop, and collaborate with existing Finance Systems teammate
What We Look For
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with accounting systems (NetSuite) and financial planning tools (Adaptive). In addition, advanced knowledge of certain integration platforms such as iPaaS and SQL for querying databases
- Administrator-level knowledge of roles, permissions, custom objects, scripting, workflows, reports, and dashboards, including advanced saved search and report building experience
- Administrator-level knowledge of roles, permissions, privileged access, content groups, multiple charts of accounts, dynamic approval chains, custom objects, tax codes, tolerances, custom workflows, supplier configuration, and report building
- Experience with global system implementations and enhancements that support localization and international expansion
- Ability to create, own and update the finance systems technology roadmap
- Provide training end-to-end support for all financial systems
- Knowledge of core accounting processes such as procure to pay, record to report, hire to retire
- Experience with project management concepts and tools
- Strong project management experience
What You'll Love About Apollo
Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees' careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You'll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We're very collaborative at Apollo, so you'll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You'll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you'll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!
