Preply
VP Finance
New York · Vp
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago
AccountingForecastingBudgetingFP&AProcurementLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing.
- Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it's creating real impact.
- We've just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Partner with the CFO and executive leadership to define and execute Preply's long-term financial strategy, supporting sustainable growth, efficiency, and global scale.
- Financial Stewardship: Lead company-wide forecasting, budgeting, capital allocation, and investment planning; ensure a disciplined approach to profitability and cash management.
- Investor Readiness: Partner closely with the CFO to strengthen Preply's external financial narrative and engagement with investors; ensure the Finance organization supports transparency, accuracy, and credibility in all investor communications.
- Organizational Scale: Build scalable processes, systems, and decision frameworks to support Preply's global growth trajectory.
- Culture and Leadership: Maintain a culture that balances accountability with empathy - rewarding performance, developing talent, and modeling Preply's principle of constantly pursuing excellence.
- AI-Enabled Finance Transformation: Lead the adoption of AI and agentic tools across FP&A, Corporate Finance, and Procurement, identifying where automation, AI-assisted analysis, and agentic workflows can replace manual processes and raise the output quality of the finance org.
- AI Literacy & Team Enablement: Set the standard for how the finance team uses AI tools in day-to-day work. Build capability across the team so AI fluency becomes a baseline, not an exception.
- Investor Partnership: Demonstrated success partnering with CFOs and investor-relations leaders to support external communications and capital-markets engagement.
- AI & Automation Fluency: Demonstrated experience deploying or scaling AI-assisted workflows in a finance context whether in forecasting, reporting, procurement, or decision support.
- Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to scale organizations through thoughtful delegation, empowerment, and leadership development.
- Public-Company Preparation: Drive the evolution of finance systems, controls, and reporting processes required for a potential public-company environment, including governance, compliance, and audit readiness.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics required
- MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced credential strongly preferred.
Compensation
- Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location.
Benefits
- At Preply, we're all about creating life-changing learning experiences.
- As a category-defining company, we're shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.
- Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.
- Strategic Finance Acumen: Proven record of building and scaling FP&A and corporate finance functions that drive performance across global, fast-growing organizations.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics required; MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced credential strongly preferred.
- Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self-development
- Competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance
- Access to free mental health support platforms
- Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching
Company info
- Drive the evolution of finance systems, controls, and reporting processes required for a potential public-company environment, including governance, compliance, and audit readiness.
- Direct experience preparing for or operating within a public-company environment, with deep understanding of investor expectations, regulatory standards, and reporting rigor.
- Lead company-wide forecasting, budgeting, capital allocation, and investment planning; ensure a disciplined approach to profitability and cash management.
- Serve as a key financial advisor to senior business leaders, converting analytical insight into strategic action that advances company goals.
- Depth and expertise in both B2C marketplace and B2B GTM
- Maintain a culture that balances accountability with empathy - rewarding performance, developing talent, and modeling Preply's principle of constantly pursuing excellence.
- Not in New York? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply NYC Hub
This listing is sourced directly from Preply's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.