Senior Manager, Financial Systems

Affirm
Canada
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 10+ years of ERP and financial systems experience and a track record of leading cross-functional teams.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of ERP and financial systems experience leading large-scale transformations
    — “You have 10+ years of experience leading the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise ERP, financial reporting, and planning platforms at scale
  • Professionals who have built and managed reusable integration frameworks for financial data
    — “Establish reusable integration frameworks and engineering standards covering API management, authentication and authorization, OAuth 2.0, encryption, scheduling, monitoring, logging, error handling, retries, and disaster recovery
  • Individuals with a strong background in financial processes such as R2R, P2P, and financial close
    — “You have a strong understanding of Accounting and Finance processes, including Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Record-to-Report (R2R), Order-to-Cash (O2C), financial close, consolidation, management reporting, and financial planning

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of technical and financial domain expertise, not just general project management skills
    — “Lead end-to-end development activities across the financial systems landscape, including solution architecture, technical design, configuration, development, testing, deployment, release management, and production support
  • Candidates should be prepared for a leadership role that includes team development and fostering a culture of accountability
    — “Develop talent by providing meaningful feedback and guidance, creating growth opportunities, and leading by example

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with enterprise ERP systems like NetSuite, Oracle, or SAP in your resume and interviews
    — “Define the enterprise architecture and technical roadmap for global ERP and EPM platforms, supporting cloud transformation across Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, NetSuite, or equivalent platforms
  • Demonstrate your ability to design and implement scalable financial integrations using tools like REST APIs or MuleSoft
    — “Architect, build, and deploy scalable integrations that ingest, transform, validate, reconcile, and distribute complex, high-volume financial and operational data sets across ERP, EPM, data warehouse, HCM, loan ledger, sales, and reporting platforms
  • Emphasize your track record in leading teams and fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement
    — “Foster a culture of quality and ownership by establishing strong code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond your team through clear written communication and technical discussions
  • Showcase your ability to manage cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Accounting stakeholders
    — “Collaborate across the product development lifecycle with Product Management, Engineering, and Accounting to ensure technical sustainability, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs are well understood and managed
  • Demonstrate your familiarity with CI/CD tools and automated deployment processes
    — “Implement automated deployment and release-management processes using Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or comparable CI/CD tools
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • modernized financial systems
  • improved system scalability
  • enhanced financial reporting
Typical background
10+ years in financial systems design and implementation

Skills & requirements

Required

ERP SystemsEPM PlatformsCloud TransformationData IntegrationTechnical ArchitectureFinancial Reporting

Preferred

AI In FinanceCloud Migration

Stack & domain

Finance

About the role

Original posting from Affirm via Greenhouse

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

About the Finance team 

The Finance team ensures Affirm remains financially sound and strategically positioned for growth. Our team manages financial planning, accounting, pricing, vendor management, tax, investor relations, and corporate development. We deliver timely insights, accurate reporting, and careful analysis to support decision-making. From day-to-day financial operations to major investments, we enable sustainable, informed growth by maintaining strong fiscal discipline.

About the role

The Financial Systems team owns the data, technology, and reporting capabilities that support Accounting, including key third-party applications such as NetSuite, Zip, Navan, Workato, and BlackLine. We are embarking on a multi-year initiative to modernize Affirm’s financial systems, support continued growth across global markets, and reimagine how Accounting operates through scalable technology, trusted data, automation, and AI.

What you'll do

Lead end-to-end development activities across the financial systems landscape, including solution architecture, technical design, configuration, development, testing, deployment, release management, and production support.

Define the enterprise architecture and technical roadmap for global ERP and EPM platforms, supporting cloud transformation across Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, NetSuite, or equivalent platforms.

Architect, build, and deploy scalable integrations that ingest, transform, validate, reconcile, and distribute complex, high-volume financial and operational data sets across ERP, EPM, data warehouse, HCM, loan ledger, sales, and reporting platforms.

Partner with VPs and Senior Directors to align on priorities, resolve competing demands, and establish a clear, shared roadmap for Financial Systems.

Collaborate across the product development lifecycle with Product Management, Engineering, and Accounting to ensure technical sustainability, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.

Act as a force multiplier by defining and advocating for effective technical solutions and operational processes.

Own your team’s operations and system availability by ensuring the appropriate monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place to support business continuity and on-call efforts.

Foster a culture of quality and ownership by establishing strong code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond your team through clear written communication and technical discussions.

Develop talent by providing meaningful feedback and guidance, creating growth opportunities, and leading by example.

What we look for

You have 10+ years of experience leading the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise ERP, financial reporting, and planning platforms at scale, such as NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, Workday, Hyperion, Anaplan, or similar solutions.

Develop integrations between ERP and EPM platforms—including NetSuite, Oracle ERP Cloud, SAP, Oracle EPM Cloud, OneStream, and Anaplan—to support consolidation, close, intercompany accounting, allocations, planning, forecasting, management reporting, and regulatory disclosures.

Use technologies such as REST and SOAP APIs, NetSuite SuiteTalk and SuiteScript, Oracle Integration Cloud, SAP Integration Suite/CPI, MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica, Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake, SQL, Python, JSON/XML, SFTP, and event-based integration patterns.

You have a strong understanding of Accounting and Finance processes, including Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Record-to-Report (R2R), Order-to-Cash (O2C), financial close, consolidation, management reporting, and financial planning.

Lead the technical design of data models, transformation logic, business rules, calculation engines, reconciliation controls, exception handling, audit trails, and data-quality monitoring across financial applications.

Establish reusable integration frameworks and engineering standards covering API management, authentication and authorization, OAuth 2.0, encryption, scheduling, monitoring, logging, error handling, retries, and disaster recovery.

You understand the governance, security, auditability, data integrity, and internal control requirements associated with financial systems in a regulated and publicly traded environment.

Implement automated deployment and release-management processes using Git, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or comparable CI/CD tools, with appropriate version control, environment management, testing, and rollback procedures.

You have a demonstrated ability to build, develop, and retain high-performing teams while establishing a culture of accountability, collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement.

You are an effective cross-functional leader who can influence senior stakeholders and build strong partnerships across Accounting, Finance, Product, Engineering, Procurement, Internal Audit, and other business functions.

You have strong written and verbal communication skills and can clearly explain complex financial, technical, and operational topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Base Pay Grade - O

Equity Grade - 6

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

CAN base pay range per year: $173,000 - $233,000

#LI-Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: 

Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents 

Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses

Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge

ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Source: Affirm careers (Greenhouse)

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