Finance Systems Lead

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role

We are seeking a Finance Systems Lead to help us elevate and scale the systems and tools that support our Finance and Accounting teams. You will oversee a team responsible for building and managing our finance tech stack, which includes tools such as but not limited to Netsuite, Workday, ADP, Concur, Workiva, Zip, and financial planning systems. This is the first role on a new team with lots of white space and runway to craft the strategy and roadmap we take on our finance and business systems to maximize for Faire. 

You will be responsible for overseeing the systems roadmap, prioritizing key initiatives, scoping out major work including technical requirements, and partnering with team members to implement, document, and roll out changes to the team. You will also be responsible for designing the systems team based on business needs and priorities, hiring key roles, and managing and supporting the growth and development of the team.

To be successful in this role, you will need to wear many hats, from team manager to systems architect to contract negotiator to QA analyst. You will need to work closely with finance and accounting partners to understand workflows and pain points, come up with recommendations and solutions, and help the team build and architect as needed. This role is ideal for a problem solver who is motivated by finding ways to improve workflows by providing the tools and data necessary for success.

The impact of this role will be significant, as it will enable Faire employees to use tools and software more effectively and bring greater automation to our workflows, ultimately improving decision-making processes.

What you’ll do 

• Manage and support critical financial applications, including NetSuite ERP and other key finance SaaS applications (payroll, AP/AR, expense/procurement, planning, bank integrations) 
• Act as a technical thought partner and execute the technical roadmap for public company readiness.
• Act as the principal administrator, manage vendor relationships and system integrator engagements.
• Partner with finance, tech, and other business stakeholders to develop system roadmaps and strategy for process improvement and automation within the finance ecosystem, guiding system solution and technical approach to solving business problems.
• Gather requirements cross-functionally (business, reporting, analytics) to elicit, document and analyze business requirements and functional specifications and help select the right financial system solutions.
• Technical SME for all system activities for Enterprise system implementations, enhancements, and integration projects. Configure fields, forms, workflows, reports and dashboards, integrations, and other complex configuration modules.
• Ensure internal control compliance across finance systems, including access and change management controls as well as supporting IT dependent controls which includes system generated reports.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in finance/business systems
• 3+ years experience with Netsuite (ideally experience as a solution architect or developer)
• 2+ years in management role overseeing systems, IT, engineers or other technical roles
• Ideally experience with other finance tools including ADP, Workday, Zip, Workiva, financial planning systems
• Strong process thinker and can communicate easily across finance and technical teams
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with constant change; agility, flexibility, and capacity to balance multiple priorities at once
• You are resourceful and not afraid to roll up your sleeves
• Ability to hire, train, manage and retain a team

Salary Range

California / New York: the pay range for this role is $186,000-$256,000 per year.

Colorado / Washington / New