Brex
Senior Manager, Accounting, Financial Systems
Seattle, Washington, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$210k-$263kDetected 2 days ago
Data StructuresData VisualizationComplianceProject ManagementFinancial AnalysisAccountingProcess ImprovementProcurementERPHRISCommunicationProblem SolvingFinancial ReportingInternal AuditNetSuite
About the role
- By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly.
- You will work cross functionally within a detail-oriented environment where creative problem solving is highly valued.
Responsibilities
- The Senior Manager, Financial Systems will lead the strategy, governance, and continuous improvement of Brex's core Finance and Accounting systems.
- The primary responsibility involves owning the business roadmap for our core FinSys environment, ensuring that our systems, configurations, workflows, and data structures support scalable, accurate, and well-controlled financial operations.
- You are responsible for partnering across the business to design and implement durable solutions that improve the close, enhance reporting, strengthen controls, and reduce manual work as Brex evolves and matures.
- The Senior Manager, Financial Systems is expected to manage multiple priorities concurrently without compromising quality, accuracy or completeness.
- Own the systems roadmap for Accounting and Finance, prioritizing enhancements that improve scalability, accuracy, control, and user experience
- Lead end-to-end system enhancements across tools such as NetSuite, Coupa, Pigment, Zip, and Workday from requirements gathering through design, testing, deployment, and post-launch stabilization
- Translate business requirements into system designs, configurations, mapping logic, and operational workflows that are sustainable and well controlled
- Establish and maintain governance over master data, system configurations, role design, approval flows, and change management processes impacting financial reporting and operations
- Drive automation and process improvement initiatives that reduce manual journal entries, reconciliations, handoffs, and spreadsheet dependencies across the close and reporting cycle
- Ensure that Finance Systems architecture appropriately supports key accounting processes, including close, reporting, procure-to-pay, intercompany, and other high-impact workflows
Requirements
- BA/BS degree, preferably in Business, Finance, or Accounting
- 8+ years of experience across Finance Systems, Accounting, Business Systems, or related functions in a public company, high-growth private company, or consulting environment
- Strong knowledge of accounting and finance processes, including month-end close, financial reporting, procure-to-pay, and internal controls
- Demonstrated experience owning or leading implementations and enhancements for ERP and related Finance systems
- Ability to translate accounting and operational requirements into scalable system solutions, process improvements, and control frameworks
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills - you are organized and great at ensuring everyone's on the same page
- Experience with NetSuite, Coupa, Workday, Numeric, Zip, Looker, Hex and Pigment
- Experience supporting Accounting and Controllership organizations in a FinTech, payments, financial services, or SaaS environment
- Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and/or Google Gemini
Skills
- Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets.
- Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
- Accounting at Brex
Compensation
- As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
Company info
- Brex's AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most.
- We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home.
This listing is sourced directly from Brex's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.