Senior Associate, Business Advisory & Technology, Finance

Company Description

Block is Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, TBD, and our foundational teams that provide guidance at the corporate level. These are our building blocks, united by our shared purpose of economic empowerment. Together we’re creating tools to help expand access to the economy. 

Square helps sellers more easily run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services.

Cash App is focused on redefining the world’s relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible. 

Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source projects that advance the use of Bitcoin as a tool for economic empowerment.

TIDAL is a global platform for musicians and their fans that uses unique content, experiences, and services to bring fans closer to the artists they love and give artists the tools to succeed as entrepreneurs.

TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution. 

The foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more.

Together, we’re working to help our diverse audiences — sellers, individuals, artists, fans, developers, and all the people in between — overcome barriers to access the economy. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Job Description

The Business Advisory & Technology team provides the people, processes, data, and technology solutions that shape the way we work and drive the business forward. Our approach is grounded in the following disciplines:

• Process & Design – defining what users need to succeed and developing new or refined ways to execute by reducing points of friction and manual intervention
• Engineering & Technology – developing innovative, high-quality engineering, application, and data solutions that solve business problems today and tomorrow
• Advisory & Management – leading change, communications, people support, and project management that guides the work to be done

As a unified team, we use our collective knowledge and skills to deliver solutions that have longevity and value to the business while being responsive to customer teams’ needs

Reshaping the future of Finance at Block calls for improving our ability to provide value to our customer teams. The Business Advisory & Technology Assistant Manager for Finance, reporting to our Business Advisory & Technology Finance Program Manager, will work with finance professionals and technical experts to realize opportunities that develop an excellent foundation for the finance operating model. 

We are looking for someone who can contribute to thinking on the "art of the possible" in architecting solutions that support future needs, surface and help to sequence high priority transformation efforts, redefine the way our work is performed through improved processes, enhanced systems, ,and realigned the Finance organization structure, manage change creatively within a complex, dynamic organization, and effectively communicate value propositions to promote internal agreement

You Will:

• Support Leads, Program Managers, and Controllership leads to create tactical blueprints and the roadmap for innovation
• Work withProgram Managers as PMO for finance transformation initiatives to help stakeholders with the project management, tracking and communication status of workstream efforts, managing program risks/issues and progress towards strategic goals
• Diagnose root problems and recommend end-to-end solutions that use digital workflows and tools and harness the power of robotic process automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to reinvent and accelerate our work
• Partner with Finance leadership and department finance leaders globally to drive change in the most effective way possible, deploying traditional project management and agile methodologies. Communicate with Finance teams and Identify existing issues and develop solutions
• Partner the PMO in the design, implementation, and evolution of change strategies and plans to inspire and motivate people to embrace the changes that are required to move Block's business forward and support our complexity at scale. 
• Partner with Business Systems teams to help implement digital technologies to improve operational effectiveness,