Top Finance Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Supports financial management for a client portfolio, including project accounting, reconciliations, revenue recognition, forecasting, invoicing, accruals, intercompany transactions, month-end close, audits, and budgeting. The role reviews contracts, project costs, expenses, and financial trackers; coordinates with project managers and finance teams; mentors junior staff; and helps improve department policies and procedures.

Serves as a senior functional subject matter expert for Workday Financials, designing and configuring finance processes, business rules, reports, security, and integrations. Leads requirements gathering, enhancements, release management, testing, UAT, issue resolution, root-cause analysis, documentation, and audit readiness. Partners with Accounting, Payroll, Procurement, HR, Grants, IT, and other stakeholders to optimize financial workflows, controls, reporting, and system operations across multiple finance platforms.

Supports financial management for a client portfolio through project accounting, monthly close, revenue recognition, forecasting, invoicing, accruals, budget tracking, intercompany transactions, and audit preparation. The role reconciles project financials, reviews contracts and expenses, maintains financial trackers, supports annual budgeting, develops processes, and mentors junior staff while partnering with project leads, clients, and finance teams.

Leads Cengage’s royalty payments and product finance operations, including royalty models, contributor payments, product data, system ownership, reporting, audit support, and risk control. The role manages a team, develops scalable processes, oversees data setup across finance systems, drives complex improvement initiatives, resolves contributor issues, and presents analyses and recommendations to executive leaders.

Leads finance transformation for hyperscaler marketplace operations, designing scalable financial systems, automated workflows, integrations, data pipelines, reconciliations, and revenue recognition processes. Partners with Finance, Sales Operations, Product Engineering, IT, and Partner Operations to support AWS, GCP, and Azure marketplace transactions, private offers, co-sell motions, and new product launches. Oversees ASC 606 compliance, UAT, change management, and SOP development.

Own product finance across manufacturing, procurement, and go-to-market functions. Responsibilities include BOM-level costing, standard cost models, COGS forecasting, overhead allocation, capital expenditure analysis, product-line P&Ls, margin analysis, pricing support, dashboards, revenue operations reporting, and FP&A budgeting. Partner with procurement, manufacturing, sales, engineering, and accounting to improve cost visibility, controls, forecasting accuracy, and financial processes during rapid scale.

Serve as the finance partner to Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success leadership. Own GTM planning, forecasting, capacity and ARR modeling, commissions analysis, variance reporting, SaaS metrics, unit economics, ROI modeling, and financial process automation. Translate complex analyses into executive recommendations, improve planning systems, and support compensation plan design and GTM investment decisions.

Leads budgeting, forecasting, expense management, variance analysis, financial reporting, and sophisticated modeling. Partners with business teams and senior leadership, including the CFO, to improve financial performance and support strategic planning. The role also drives finance process improvements, AI integration, data integrity, and operational efficiency across corporate finance activities.

Own the company’s finance function, including financial reporting, cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, forecasting, profitability improvement, financial modeling, process documentation, automation, dashboards, and systems evaluation. Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams on growth, inventory planning, and executive decision-making while building scalable finance operations for continued expansion.

The Assistant Vice President, Commercial Surety will support underwriting and marketing strategy, manage regional production targets, and develop distribution partner relationships while mentoring junior team members.

Own financial modeling for budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; analyze pipeline, quota, revenue, and unit economics; partner with business leaders; build executive dashboards; support close and variance analysis; improve finance processes; and contribute to M&A, valuation, fundraising, due diligence, and investor materials.

Own end-to-end finance operations and reporting for a high-growth B2B SaaS startup: manage AP/AR, month-end close, revenue recognition, tax and compliance, build financial models and forecasts, support fundraising and investor reporting, improve financial processes, and partner with leadership on strategic decision-making.

Supports and enhances integrated finance systems across Quote-to-Revenue, Order-to-Cash, billing, and revenue recognition workflows. Configures and integrates Zuora applications with Salesforce and NetSuite, translates business requirements into functional specifications, troubleshoots reconciliation and data issues, performs testing and deployments, and supports SOX and ASC 606/IFRS 15 compliance. Collaborates with Finance, Accounting, IT, and Engineering teams in an Agile/Scrum environment while delivering automations, analytics, and continuous system improvements.

Leads strategic finance for a portfolio of programs, managing budgeting, quarterly forecasting, variance reviews, expense projections, financial models, ROI and cost analyses, and executive reporting. Partners with program leaders and cross-functional teams to identify risks, opportunities, and resource needs. Translates complex financial analysis into actionable recommendations and serves as the finance expert for assigned programs.

Own R&D budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, headcount planning, variance analysis, and executive reporting. Partner with technical, product, people, medical, and finance leaders to translate AI/API usage, infrastructure, vendors, lab operations, and personnel investments into accurate financial plans. Build scalable finance processes and planning systems, improve reporting and forecast accuracy, and apply AI to streamline finance workflows in a fast-moving environment.

Evaluate and review finance workflows and task designs for realism and accuracy in real assets, project finance, infrastructure, energy, mining, and natural resources. Identify missing assumptions, ambiguous instructions, impractical constraints, and edge cases. Provide concise, structured written feedback and recommendations, collaborate with other experts, and participate in synchronous review sessions as needed.

Review and evaluate quantitative finance tasks for technical accuracy and real-world realism. Identify missing assumptions, unrealistic constraints, edge cases, and data or backtesting issues. Provide concise, structured written feedback and actionable recommendations. Collaborate with other experts to calibrate evaluations and maintain consistent quality standards throughout a high-engagement, remote contractor sprint.

Review, create, and evaluate professional operational finance deliverables (P&L reconciliations, month-end close, AP/P2P, three-statement models, pro forma analysis, covenant and partnership accounting). Analyze complex documents, assess AI-generated financial work for technical accuracy and completeness, and produce executive-ready summaries with assumptions, variances, impacts, and recommendations.

Evaluate finance workflows and tasks for realism, technical accuracy, and practical applicability in trading, derivatives, and crypto markets. Identify ambiguous assumptions, unrealistic constraints, missing edge cases, and provide concise, actionable feedback. Collaborate with domain experts to maintain consistency and ensure high-quality assessments throughout a fast-paced, remote sprint engagement.

Serve as a strategic commercial finance partner across cash-pay and insurance-covered businesses. Own driver-based forecasting, financial modeling, performance analysis, business cases, KPI reporting, and executive communications. Analyze payer dynamics, reimbursement, revenue cycle, unit economics, marketing ROI, and customer cohorts to inform senior leadership and drive strategic decisions. Collaborate with Revenue Cycle, Analytics, Operations, Accounting, and FP&A on scalable models and processes.

Lead GTM finance owning the end-to-end P&L for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Build first-principles financial models, drive unit economics and ARR forecasting, deliver exec/board reporting, partner on capacity/pricing, champion AI-enabled finance workflows, and hire and develop the GTM finance team as the company scales.

Lead FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; manage cash flow, ABL lender compliance, project-level profitability, and financial modeling. Advise executive team and private equity sponsor, build a high-performing finance team, and drive strategic planning, M&A modeling, and operational KPI analysis across a multi-site contract-based business.

Contribute financial expertise to train and evaluate AI language models: design finance tasks, produce reference solutions, evaluate AI outputs with rubrics, collaborate with SMEs, and identify knowledge gaps to improve AI reasoning in finance. Independent contractor role requiring at least 10 hours/week.

Assess finance tasks and workflows for professional realism, clarity, and completeness. Identify missing assumptions, ambiguities, edge cases, and impractical constraints. Validate workflow logic, evaluate whether tasks measure professional finance capabilities, and provide concise, structured written feedback and improvement recommendations while collaborating with other finance experts during a high-engagement remote sprint.

Partner with Sales, Credit Risk, Legal, Product, and Capital Markets to model credit deal economics, build portfolio and vintage projections, structure multi-party revenue shares, run scenario analyses, lead deal reviews, develop credit pricing tools and dashboards, and use automation/AI to scale modeling and decision support.