The opportunity
Klaviyo went public in 2023 and is scaling fast. This is a rare chance to architect the Finance systems foundation for a company at this inflection point.
What you'll do
Define and maintain the multi‑year strategy and roadmap for Klaviyo’s Finance: technology stack (ERP, procure‑to‑pay, revenue and billing, treasury, close and reconciliation tooling), aligned to the CFO’s agenda and the company’s financial plan.
Translate Finance, Accounting, Tax, and FP&A objectives into clear systems: investments and sequencing, balancing foundational platform work with high‑impact automation and analytics use cases.
Manage and grow a team of application owners, business systems analysts,: administrators, and integration specialists who collectively own the Finance systems portfolio and its integrations.
Set clear expectations around domain ownership, service reliability,: partnership with Finance stakeholders, and measurable business outcomes; build strong succession and leadership bench strength within the team.
Lead Klaviyo's push to make Finance one of the most automated, insight-driven: functions in the company. You'll identify and deliver high-value AI use cases across the Finance workflow.
You'll partner directly with Klaviyo's AI and data platform teams to embed AI: into core Finance processes with clear guardrails, measurable productivity gains, and the rigor expected of a public company. This isn't a future-state vision, it's work already underway, and you'll own it.
What they're looking for
- + years in enterprise or business systems, with meaningful ownership of: Finance technology at a tech or SaaS company
- + years leading teams, including managers, responsible for order-to cash,: record-to-report, procure-to-pay, revenue/billing, and financial close systems
- Deep, practical SOX ITGC experience and a clean track record working with Internal Audit and external auditors
- Solid understanding of enterprise-led growth and system features required to enable moving upmarket
- Fluency in ERP and Finance application architecture (NetSuite/Oracle, Coupa,: Avalara, Zip, Zuora, or similar), integration patterns, and how Finance data flows across a modern tech stack
- Led strong engineering team with AI build-first mentality coupled with engineering excellence
- Personally built or scaled AI and automation in Finance workflows: reconciliations, invoice processing, forecasting prep and can speak to what worked and what didn't
- A reputation as a trusted partner to engineering and finance leadership;: someone who translates complexity into clear decisions and earns credibility with CFOs, CAOs, Controllers, Revenue Operations, and auditors alike
