Senior Manager, Financial Systems

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As the Senior Manager, Financial Systems at Vanta, you will own the architecture, scalability, and reliability of Vanta's core financial systems infrastructure, the data backbone that powers every financial insight, forecast, and decision across the company. As Vanta scales, the integrity and scalability of our financial systems is a critical lever for us and this role sits at the center of that mission. You'll be the connective tissue between Finance, Accounting, Data Engineering, and GTM Systems, ensuring our financial data flows are accurate, auditable, and built to support a business operating at scale. As Senior Manager, Financial Systems at Vanta, you will lead the strategy and execution of our financial systems stack including our ERP, FP&A planning platform, and the data integrations that connect them to our broader data infrastructure. You'll combine deep systems expertise with financial process fluency to eliminate friction, improve data quality, and ensure Vanta's finance team is always operating from a single, trustworthy source of truth. This role is ideal for someone who thinks in systems, builds with scale in mind, and believes that great financial infrastructure is itself a strategic advantage. What you’ll do as a Senior Manager, Financial Systems at Vanta: Lead the strategy, roadmap, and day-to-day operations for Vanta's core financial systems such as ERP, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay and Financial Planning tools Define and govern the financial data architecture: how data enters, moves through, and exits our financial systems, with clear ownership over schemas, hierarchies, and master data Drive integrations between our ERP and adjacent systems, including Salesforce, CPQ, Zip, Ramp, Navan, etc Own our FP&A planning platform as both an administrator and strategic architect, maintaining data model integrity, defining use cases, and developing a long-term roadmap Design and maintain a finance data framework that defines how financial entities (cost centers, dimensions, segments) are structured across systems, enabling consistent reporting across the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow Partner with the Data team to ensure financial data source systems are well-governed, reliable, and accessible Own the systems and automation that support our monthly financial close cycle, including reconciliations, intercompany flows, currency consolidations, and more Serve as the Finance systems lead on cross-functional projects with GTM Systems, Data, Accounting, and EPD, representing Finance's systems requirements Manage vendor relationships to ensure high value realization and minimal support-related problems Operate as a hands-on player-coach: own critical systems work directly while building and developing a small team of financial systems engineers, setting a high bar for technical quality and process rigor How to be successful in this role: 7+ years of experience in financial systems, ERP administration, or finance technology, including time as a senior individual contributor and/or experience leading people, you're equally comfortable building in the system yourself and setting direction for a team Deep, hands-on experience with ERPs, including multi-subsidiary configuration, scripting/workflow automation, saved searches, custom records, and period management Experience administering a cloud FP&A planning platform, understanding both the technical architecture and the planning use cases it supports Demonstrated ability to design financial data structures that scale including: cost center hierarchies, chart of accounts governance, master data management, and dimension design Familiarity with API-based integrations, integration/middleware tooling, and data pipelines between financial systems and a cloud data warehouse Comfortable writing SQL to validate data, build reconciliations, and pull ad hoc analysis from a data warehouse Strong working knowledge of core finance and accounting processes such as financial close, revenue recognition, multi-entity consolidations, and cost management Track record of partnering effectively with Accounting, FP&A, Data Engineering, and GTM Systems teams, translating finance requirements into scalable technical solutions You've built financial systems infrastructure before, not just maintained it, you know what 'good' looks like and how to get there from a messy starting point Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact. What you can expect as a Vanta’n: Industry-co