Senior Manager, Financial Systems

What you’ll do

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and day-to-day operations for Vanta's core financial systems such as ERP, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay and Financial Planning tools.
• Define and govern the financial data architecture: how data enters, moves through, and exits our financial systems, with clear ownership over schemas, hierarchies, and master data.
• Drive integrations between our ERP and adjacent systems, including Salesforce, CPQ, Zip, Ramp, Navan, etc.
• Own our FP&A planning platform as both an administrator and strategic architect, maintaining data model integrity, defining use cases, and developing a long-term roadmap.
• Design and maintain a finance data framework that defines how financial entities (cost centers, dimensions, segments) are structured across systems, enabling consistent reporting across the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Partner with the Data team to ensure financial data source systems are well-governed, reliable, and accessible.
• Own the systems and automation that support our monthly financial close cycle, including reconciliations, intercompany flows, currency consolidations, and more.
• Serve as the Finance systems lead on cross-functional projects with GTM Systems, Data, Accounting, and EPD, representing Finance's systems requirements.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure high value realization and minimal support-related problems.
• Operate as a hands-on player-coach: own critical systems work directly while building and developing a small team of financial systems engineers, setting a high bar for technical quality and process rigor.

How to be successful in this role

• 7+ years of experience in financial systems, ERP administration, or finance technology, including time as a senior individual contributor and/or experience leading people; equally comfortable building in the system yourself and setting direction for a team.
• Deep, hands-on experience with ERPs, including multi-subsidiary configuration, scripting/workflow automation, saved searches, custom records, and period management.
• Experience administering a cloud FP&A planning platform, understanding both the technical architecture and the planning use cases it supports.
• Demonstrated ability to design financial data structures that scale including: cost center hierarchies, chart of accounts governance, master data management, and dimension design.
• Familiarity with API-based integrations, integration/middleware tooling, and data pipelines between financial systems and a cloud data warehouse.
• Comfortable writing SQL to validate data, build reconciliations, and pull ad hoc analysis from a data warehouse.
• Strong working knowledge of core finance and accounting processes such as financial close, revenue recognition, multi-entity consolidations, and cost management.
• Track record of partnering effectively with Accounting, FP&A, Data Engineering, and GTM Systems teams, translating finance requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• You've built financial systems infrastructure before, not just maintained it; you know what 'good' looks like and how to get there from a messy starting point.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.