Senior Manager, Finance Systems & Operations

STACK is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Finance Systems & Operations, to lead the strategy, product ownership, governance, and continuous improvement of our enterprise finance technology ecosystem.

Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Applications, this role sits at the intersection of Finance, technology, data, and operations. The Senior Manager will serve as Finance’s primary technology partner and product owner, working closely with Finance, Accounting, Treasury and Tax leadership to understand priorities, shape the roadmap, and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value.

This is not a traditional systems administration role. We are looking for a leader who understands how Finance operates, translates business strategy into technology priorities, and drives outcomes across ERP, planning, consolidation, treasury, reporting, analytics, integrations, and related enterprise platforms.

The ideal candidate combines finance systems expertise with product ownership, program leadership, and enough technical depth to understand architecture, integration, data flows, configuration, and solution trade-offs. This person is equally comfortable discussing business priorities with senior leaders, working through technical issues with delivery teams, and sequencing a multi-year finance transformation roadmap.

Success requires strong judgment, executive presence, organizational discipline, curiosity, and the ability to create clarity in a fast-growing, ambiguous environment.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Own the Finance Technology Product & Roadmap

• Serve as the product owner and strategic technology partner for Finance and Accounting.
• Own and communicate a finance systems roadmap aligned to business priorities, risk, technical health, and measurable value.
• Prioritize enhancements, projects, integrations, automation, reporting, and technical debt based on value, effort, dependencies, and sustainability.
• Shape a clear future-state vision for STACK’s finance technology ecosystem.

Lead the Finance Applications Ecosystem

• Provide governance and functional ownership across ERP, FP&A, consolidation, treasury, intercompany, tax, reporting, analytics, and related platforms.
• Maintain a holistic view of finance applications, integrations, processes, data flows, controls, and support needs.
• Partner with BSAs, developers, integration and data teams, vendors, and implementation partners to deliver scalable solutions.
• Evaluate solution trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and support ERP optimization, platform evaluations, acquisitions, integrations, and transformation initiatives.

Partner with Finance Leadership

• Build trusted relationships with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, FP&A, Procurement, and executive stakeholders.
• Facilitate discussions that clarify problems, outcomes, priorities, constraints, and trade-offs.
• Communicate recommendations, roadmaps, risks, options, and status clearly to senior leaders.
• Drive alignment across competing priorities and ensure leaders have visibility into roadmap decisions, delivery health, dependencies, and change impacts.

Drive Process Improvement & Transformation

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and improve Finance processes.
• Partner with stakeholders to assess current-state processes and design scalable future-state solutions.
• Drive improvements across close, reporting, planning, forecasting, treasury, intercompany, data quality, and related Finance capabilities.
• Promote practical use of workflow, analytics, automation, and responsible AI-enabled capabilities where they improve efficiency or decision-making.

Lead Delivery & Execution

• Lead initiatives from concept through implementation with clear objectives, requirements, ownership, timelines, dependencies, and success measures.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across Finance, Enterprise Applications, Data, Integration, Security, Infrastructure, and external partners.
• Proactively manage risks, resource constraints, escalations, testing, UAT, release readiness, change management, training, documentation, and production transition.
• Ensure solutions deliver expected business outcomes-not just completed technical requirements.

Govern Data, Reporting & Controls

• Partner with Finance and Data teams to improve financial data quality, consistency, ownership, and governance.
• Support reliable reporting, KPIs, dashboards, and analytics for operational and executive decision-making.
• Ensure SOX, audit, security, segregation of duties, data governance, and trusted-source requirements are considered in solution design.

Manage Partners & Platform Health

• Manage finance technology vendors, implementation partners, and support providers.
• Hold partners accountable for quality, timelines, issue resolution, and agreed deliverables.
• Monitor platform capabilities, vendor roadmaps, releases, technical debt, lifecycle considerations, and recurring production issues.
• Ensure appropriate documentation, governance standards, and support models exist across the Finance application portfolio.

Lead & Influence

• Provide direction, mentoring, and subject-matter leadership to BSAs and others supporting Finance.
• Set expectations for requirements quality, analysis, delivery discipline, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Influence across teams, create clarity in ambiguity, and bring options and recommendations forward.
• Drive accountability for commitments, outcomes, and continuous improvement.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance systems, ERP, enterprise applications, financial technology, or related technology leadership roles.
• Proven experience as a product owner, application owner, systems leader, or strategic technology partner for Finance.
• Strong understanding of Finance and Accounting processes, including general ledger, close, AP, AR, fixed assets, planning, budgeting, reporting, and related workflows.
• Experience across broader finance technology ecosystems such as ERP, FP&A, consolidation, treasury, intercompany, reporting, analytics, and related platforms.
• Ability to develop roadmaps, prioritize competing initiatives, and translate complex business needs into executable technology plans.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives from discovery through implementation, adoption, and support transition.
• Working knowledge of integrations, data flows, application architecture, configuration concepts, controls, security, and enterprise data dependencies.
• Ability to engage credibly with Finance leaders, executives, technical teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Strong facilitation, communication, problem-solving, decision-making, stakeholder-management, and organizational skills.
• Experience operating within SOX-controlled or similarly regulated environments.
• Demonstrated accountability and ability to independently drive work through ambiguity, competing priorities, risks, and dependencies.

NICE TO HAVE

• NetSuite experience.
• Experience in real estate, infrastructure, construction, data centers, or another capital-intensive industry.
• Experience with finance transformation, ERP optimization, or enterprise platform modernization.
• Experience with financial data governance, analytics, Power BI, or enterprise reporting platforms.
• Experience implementing workflow automation, AI-enabled capabilities, or emerging technologies within Finance.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field.
• CPA, MBA, product management certification, or relevant ERP/platform certifications., * You are a strong communicator, you are persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making.
• You do not get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
• You are a team builder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
• You are naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.

• We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts - even a cell phone subsidy.
• We foster a culture of appreciation, including peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
• Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
• We’re growing - this is a great time to join and make an impact!

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.