Head of Finance and SCM Technology

Aurora•Mountain View, CA

66d•$216,000 - $280,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Aurora is seeking a Director, Head of Finance and ERP Technology, to serve as a builder-first technical leader responsible for transforming their global financial applications into a secure, scalable, and AI-integrated backbone. This role involves balancing long-term technical vision with deep, hands-on engineering execution to eliminate operational fragmentation across core ERP and cross-functional business platforms, supporting global operations. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker adept at designing complex end-to-end financial data pipelines, establishing robust compliance architectures, and deploying AI automation for sophisticated back-office operations.

Requirements

14+ years of experience leading ERP platforms, financial applications, and solutions engineering.
6+ years of experience in leadership and management track in high-growth technology or manufacturing environments.
Proven, hands-on configuration and architectural mastery of modern cloud ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, Oracle, SAP), including understanding underlying database schemas, table relationships, and backend logic.
Deep technical familiarity with end-to-end enterprise workflows across corporate finance, revenue recognition standards, global procurement, and manufacturing resource planning.
Extensive experience operating in a public-company environment, with a strong mastery of SOX compliance, system auditing, and security controls.
Exceptional ability to map complex global data flows, design secure integrations, and unify disparate enterprise SaaS tools into a coherent operational backbone.

Nice To Haves

Experience in designing, building, or deploying Agentic AI automation.
Advanced expertise in holistic financial systems blueprinting, with a proven track record of architecting multi-platform ecosystems from scratch.

Responsibilities

Lead ERP Platform & System Orchestration: Set the technical vision and lead the hands-on engineering of the core ERP platform, modeling, optimizing, and scaling business process architectures across Finance & Accounting, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), complex Revenue Recognition, and Manufacturing (MRP) environments.
Execute Hands-On Financial Architecture: Actively design and build robust API-driven middleware layers, data workflows, and system crosswalks to seamlessly integrate the ERP with banking, GTM platforms, and supply chain networks.
Deploy AI & Financial Automation: Define and execute the strategy for AI adoption across internal finance platforms, identifying opportunities to replace manual tasks with AI-powered workflows and build 'internal agents' to automate business processes.
Enforce Compliance & Controls: Architect and embed governance frameworks, IT General Controls (ITGCs), and segregation of duties (SoD) within systems to ensure auditability, regulatory compliance, and public-company/SOX readiness.
Drive Data Governance & Reporting: Establish the Master Data Management (MDM) strategy for financial data objects and build the technical data infrastructure for data integrity and real-time analytics.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Serve as the principal technical partner to Finance, Sourcing, Operations, and Security leadership, translating technical risks, capabilities, and system roadmaps into strategic business outcomes.