The Role
Who We Are:
At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in travel and expense solutions, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise.
Emburse is transforming how organizations manage and spend money, and we’re looking for a Director of Finance Systems to help scale our financial operations through best-in-class technology, automation, and governance.
This role is ideal for a “Swiss Army Knife” finance systems leader—someone who blends product thinking, operational finance expertise, strong stakeholder engagement, and hands-on execution. You’ll serve as the strategic bridge between Finance and Technology, owning Emburse’s core finance platforms—most notably NetSuite and BillingPlatform—and enabling Finance to operate efficiently, accurately, and at scale.
Note: This is a systems and operations leadership role—not an FP&A role. Additionally, this is a Hybrid role with expectation of 3 days a week in office in the Philadelphia area once an office is established.
What You'll Do:
- Act as product owner for Emburse’s finance systems, with deep ownership of NetSuite and BillingPlatform, including roadmap, prioritization, optimization, and day-to-day system health
- Bring a strong product and delivery mindset, leveraging agile and scrum-style practices to drive predictable execution and continuous improvement
- Lead the design and ongoing optimization of Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, and Revenue Recognition processes in a SaaS environment
- Partner closely with Accounting, Revenue Operations, and Finance leadership to ensure systems support how Finance actually works—not just how systems are designed
- Drive automation and integrations that reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and accelerate close cycles
- Ensure system configurations and workflows align with GAAP, SOX, and audit requirements, with a focus on operational rigor
- Serve as a proactive, highly visible communicator across Finance, IT, Business Systems, and Data teams
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for technical delivery teams and external partners
- Manage system implementations, enhancements, and upgrades with a bias toward hands-on execution
- Define and monitor KPIs related to system stability, data quality, and finance process automation
- Provide clear status updates, risks, and mitigation plans to executive stakeholders
- Build and lead a high-performing team of program managers, business analysts, and systems professionals
What We're Looking For:
- 10+ years of experience in finance systems, enterprise systems, or business systems leadership within a SaaS or high-growth technology company
- Deep, hands-on NetSuite experience (this is critical), including ownership of core accounting and operational finance workflows
- Strong experience with SaaS billing, usage-based or subscription models, and revenue recognition systems (BillingPlatform experience a plus)
- A proven “hit-the-ground-running” mindset with the ability to quickly assess systems, identify gaps, and drive improvements
- A natural Swiss Army Knife skill set: product management instincts, agile/scrum delivery experience, and strong stakeholder engagement
- An operational finance mindset—you think like Accounting and Revenue teams and understand what Finance needs to operate effectively
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives between Finance and Technology with minimal oversight
- Familiarity with SOX, audit readiness, and finance controls in public or pre-public companies
- Strong communication skills and a proactive leadership style
- Experience building and mentoring teams in fast-paced environments
Why Emburse?
Finance is changing—and at Emburse, we’re leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies, gain real-time visibility, and optimize spend—so they can focus on what’s next, not what’s slowing them down.
• A Company with Momentum – We serve 12M+ users across 120 countries, helping businesses modernize
their finance operations.
• A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real-
world challenges.
• A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that
supports your success.
• A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making
for businesses everywhere.
Shape your future & find what’s next at Emburse.
Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
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The Company
What We Do
Emburse humanizes work by empowering business travelers, finance professionals and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most. Emburse brings together some of the world’s most powerful and trusted expense and AP automation solutions, including Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia and Tallie. The company’s innovative offerings, which are uniquely tailored for specific industries, company sizes, and geographies, are trusted by more than 4.5 million users in more than 120 countries. Over 14,000 customers, from start-ups to global enterprises, including Boot Barn, Grant Thornton, Telefónica, Lufthansa Systems, and Toyota rely on Emburse to make faster, smarter decisions, empower business travelers to recapture lost nights and weekends spent doing tedious expense management, and help make users’ lives -- and their businesses -- better.
