Senior Manager, Finance Transformation

Job Description

Senior Manager, Finance Transformation | Confidential Employer

The Tone:
This is a full-time remote role at Oura, a company dedicated to empowering individuals to own their inner potential. Oura builds award-winning products, including the Oura Ring and its connected app, which help a global community gain deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality. This role is critical for transforming Accounting operations as Oura scales rapidly and operates as a newly public company, ensuring a prioritized and governed roadmap for systems, close, and control needs.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote – USA
• Pay: $139000–$200000 yearly
• Team: Reports to the Finance Transformation Lead; partners closely with Accounting leadership and Business Systems.
• Mission: Turn fragmented systems requests, close and control needs, and process-improvement work into one prioritized, governed roadmap with real, visible impact on how a newly public company operates.
• Tech Stack: NetSuite, Zip, FloQast, Workiva

What You’ll Actually Do
• Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a trusted, collaborative partner across Accounting, Business Systems/IT, FP&A, and external advisors, facilitating alignment and productive discussions to surface decisions.
• Systems Coordination: Serve as the primary Accounting partner for IT triage, translating incidents and enhancement requests into well-scoped tickets and partnering with Business Systems on requirements, prioritization, testing, and release readiness for finance tools.
• Portfolio Governance: Own the project management discipline for the Finance Transformation portfolio, building integrated plans, managing dependencies, and providing leadership with clear visibility into status and needed decisions.
• SOX Readiness & Controls: Convert control gaps and audit observations into prioritized remediation plans, driving root-cause analysis and supporting SOX Year 1 readiness and broader public company reporting requirements.
• Close Acceleration: Drive cross-functional initiatives to improve close cadence, reconciliation quality, and visibility into period-end risk across multiple entities, establishing repeatable mechanisms for tracking progress.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Information Systems; 9+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, accounting operations, internal audit, finance systems, or process improvement.
• Experience: 9+ years experience including leading cross-functional projects, partnering with IT/Business Systems on intake, incident triage, prioritization, and release management, and working with SOX, internal controls, or financial reporting risk remediation in a public-company or late-stage pre-IPO environment. Hands-on NetSuite experience is required.
• Skills: Strong project/program management skills encompassing integrated planning, dependency management, risk/issue escalation, and executive reporting; solid accounting fluency across close, reconciliations, journal entries, and controls; excellent written and verbal communication, able to flex style and facilitate meetings.
• Bonus: PMP or equivalent certification, CPA preferred, experience building or rebuilding a team or function, exposure to multi-entity and international operations (intercompany, FX, consolidation).