Finance Business Architect

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

In this new role within the Finance PMO, you will partner with Global Business Process Owners, Product and Engineering to define a holistic Finance Digital Roadmap. You will assess the maturity of mission-critical Finance capabilities from a process and technology perspective and determine specific workflow, data, and system recommendations. Through a combination of a deep understanding of Finance end-to-end processes and technical expertise, you will perform system fit assessments to recommend the best solutions to meet business strategic objectives.  You will be an important catalyst to guide thinking on the "art of the possible" and identifying solutions that anticipate future needs. 

You will focus on understanding the dependencies and opportunities across Record to Report, Order to Cash, Source to Pay, and Plan to Perform to ensure we are building the capabilities required to move Netflix forward and support our complexity at scale.  You are energized by complex problems and ambiguity, with experience breaking complex problems down into manageable parts and devising effective solutions.

This position is highly visible and requires collaborating with all levels of the organization and working with global teams across functions. This is not a technical delivery role - while you will partner closely with engineering, your role is to act as an advisor to the business on how to best leverage technology to meet business capability needs at scale. This is a hybrid position that can be based in either Los Angeles or Los Gatos and offers the flexibility to work remotely part-time. Occasional travel may be required to other office locations, including internationally.  

• Be an advisor to the transformation plans Finance will launch by sharing experience and ideas on what the art of possible is to transform the impact of the Finance team

• Map systems to Finance business capabilities across all end-to-end processes to proactively identify gaps and consolidation opportunities

• Drive standardization of processes and tools to simplify the technical landscape and lay the foundation for further automation

• Proactively identify capability gaps and influence prioritization

• Increase the overall maturity of Finance capabilities by encouraging leveraging cloud-based and paved-path solutions to enable business transformation

• Diagnose root problems and recommend end-to-end solutions that leverage the power of robotic process automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence / GenAI to reinvent and accelerate our work

• Continually assess technology trends in the Finance space that will boost the transformation

• Maintain an understanding of advancements in technology and innovations which are happening across digital, analytics, the Finance ecosystem, and broader marketplace

Stakeholder Management & Business Engagement

• Drive Digital Transformation by engaging with Finance leaders across business verticals and various geographies to understand business needs and recommend the best digital solutions

• Influence policy and process decisions to effectively utilize systems and applications without customization

• Manage conflict and negotiation between teams and across organizational lines to promote the most effective and consistent global solutions

• Work with teams outside of Finance to understand upstream and downstream data and system impacts and influence positive change of end-to-end processes

• Drive process optimization, capability architecture, scalability, optimization and automation of processes.

• Bachelor’s degree required (finance or information systems desired)

• 10+ years in progressive business systems analysis and technology transformation roles

• Deep understanding of technologies leveraged across FP&A, accounting, billing, tax, procurement, payroll, treasury, etc. (Workday, Anaplan, HighRadius, Blackline, etc.)

• Experience building, implementing, and measuring the success of Finance business systems roadmaps

• Experience with finance transformation and process improvement using leading-edge technologies 

• Experience implementing cloud-based solutions in a global environment

• Experience implementing systems in the Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report and FP&A areas

• Media and entertainment-specific process and technology experience is a plus

• You keep apprised of advancements in technology and innovations that are happening across digital, predictive analytics, data visualizations, and artificial intelligence to influence Finance direction

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $160,000 - $470,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

Inclusion is a Netflix value and we strive to host a meaningful interview experience for all candidates. If you want an accommodation/adjustment for a disability or any other reason during the hiring process, please send a request to your recruiting partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.