Head of Finance Technology Systems

HYBRID in BOSTON  

At Klaviyo we know that building a great company starts with building a great team. We welcome candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences and we care as much about your trajectory and potential as we do about direct one‑to‑one matches with every requirement.

Klaviyo went public in 2023 and is scaling fast. This is a rare chance to architect the Finance systems foundation for a company at this inflection point.The Finance Technology Systems team is part of G&A Systems within Global Technology Solutions (GTS). This group designs operates and continually improves the applications and workflows that power how Klaviyo manages money risk and financial reporting at scale.

The team partners closely with Finance Accounting Tax Treasury FP&A Procurement and Internal Audit as well as adjacent technology teams like Corporate IT Data and GTM Systems to ensure our back‑office stack is reliable well‑integrated compliant and ready for a public AI‑forward SaaS business. We own the roadmap health and governance of platforms including our ERP and financial systems (e.g. NetSuite/Oracle) procure‑to‑pay (e.g. Coupa) revenue and billing systems and related integrations and automation.

This role reports to the Senior Director G&A Systems and leads the team responsible for Finance Technology Solutions across Klaviyo.

What You'll Do

As the Head of Finance Technology Systems you will be the accountable technology leader for Klaviyo’s Finance application landscape and core financial workflows. You will define and execute the multi‑year vision for our Finance systems lead a high‑performing team and partner with senior Finance and GTS leaders to deliver automation control and insight across our procure‑to‑pay record‑to‑report and order‑to‑cash processes.

• Define and maintain the multi‑year strategy and roadmap for Klaviyo’s Finance technology stack (ERP procure‑to‑pay revenue and billing treasury close and reconciliation tooling) aligned to the CFO’s agenda and the company’s financial plan.
• Translate Finance Accounting Tax and FP&A objectives into clear systems investments and sequencing balancing foundational platform work with high‑impact automation and analytics use cases.

• Manage and grow a team of application owners business systems analysts administrators and integration specialists who collectively own the Finance systems portfolio and its integrations.
• Set clear expectations around domain ownership service reliability partnership with Finance stakeholders and measurable business outcomes; build strong succession and leadership bench strength within the team.

• Lead Klaviyo's push to make Finance one of the most automated insight-driven functions in the company. You'll identify and deliver high-value AI use cases across the Finance workflow. 
• You'll partner directly with Klaviyo's AI and data platform teams to embed AI into core Finance processes with clear guardrails measurable productivity gains and the rigor expected of a public company. This isn't a future-state vision it's work already underway and you'll own it.

• Partner with Controllership FP&A Tax Treasury and Procurement leaders to design and continuously refine end‑to‑end Finance workflows across procure‑to‑pay record‑to‑report and order‑to‑cash ensuring systems and processes are tightly aligned.
• Ensure our ERP and Finance applications are configured integrated and operated to support accurate timely close scalable revenue and billing and high‑quality financial data that downstream teams can trust.

• Own the design implementation and operation of IT General Controls (ITGCs) and other key controls across Finance applications in partnership with Internal Audit Security and external auditors.
• Continually simplify and automate controls and evidence collection so audits are reliable and predictable with fewer deficiencies and lower friction for Finance and GTS teams.

• Own the Finance systems portfolio budget (applications services and related programs) including vendor selection contract evaluation and ROI analysis for major investments.
• Rationalize overlapping tools simplify the application landscape and ensure Finance systems integrate cleanly with G&A GTM and data platforms.

• Serve as the primary technology partner for the CFO Controller and Finance leadership team on systems data and process topics; translate business strategy into clear technical decisions and trade‑offs.
• Represent Finance Technology Systems in executive forums planning cycles and cross‑functional initiatives ensuring Finance needs are anticipated and built into wider GTS and company roadmaps.

You've spent your career at the intersection of Finance and technology and you've moved beyond just keeping systems running. You think in roadmaps outcomes and partnerships. You know what a well-run Finance technology function looks like and you know how to build one.

You've led teams through real complexity: ERP transformations SOX audits billing system overhauls or the messy work of integrating Finance systems across a growing company. You don't need a perfect environment to do great work you create structure where there isn't any and you bring Finance and engineering stakeholders along with you. Additionally you use AI tools to accelerate exploration shorten iteration cycles and bring sharper ideas to the table.

Specifically you likely bring:

• 15+ years in enterprise or business systems with meaningful ownership of Finance technology at a tech or SaaS company
• 4+ years leading teams including managers responsible for ERP procure-to-pay revenue/billing and financial close systems
• Deep practical SOX ITGC experience and a clean track record working with Internal Audit and external auditors
• Fluency in ERP and Finance application architecture (NetSuite/Oracle Coupa or similar) integration patterns and how Finance data flows across a modern tech stack
• A reputation as a trusted partner to Finance leadership; someone who translates complexity into clear decisions and earns credibility with CFOs Controllers and auditors alike

You'll especially thrive here if you've:

• Led Finance technology through an IPO public-company readiness program or major transformation
• Built or scaled AI and automation in Finance workflows - reconciliations invoice processing forecasting prep and can speak to what worked and what didn't
• Come up through Finance or Accounting earlier in your career and still enjoy going deep on the details when it matters

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What We Do

Klaviyo (NYSE: KVYO) is the B2C CRM. Powered by its built-in data platform and AI Klaviyo combines marketing automation analytics and customer service into one unified solution making it easy for businesses to know their customers and grow faster. Klaviyo (CLAY-vee-oh) helps over 183000 brands like Mattel Glossier Daily Harvest and Liquid Death deliver 1:1 experiences at scale improve efficiency and drive revenue.

Why Work With Us

We refer to our employees as ‘Klaviyos’ and we make up a diverse community united around shared values: We’re curious collaborative driven innovative fun and fully ourselves at work. No matter which team you join your work won’t just impact Klaviyo. It’ll help empower our customers and enable creators across the globe to own their destinies.

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