Product Leader, Finance Engineering

At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.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. About the team Klaviyo went public in 2023 and is scaling fast. This is a rare chance to make a difference in building 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 Product Lead, Finance 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, 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. Own the Finance systems vision and roadmap Define and maintain the multi‑year strategy and roadmap for Klaviyo’s Finance technology stack ( procure‑to‑pay, order-to-cash( revenue and billing,treasury), record-to-report( close and reconciliation), 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. Deliver on the Roadmap Collaborate with  application owners, x-functional teams, business systems analysts, administrators, and integration specialists in driving functional design and delivering the agreed upon roadmap Set clear expectations around timelines, measurable business outcomes with Finance stakeholders Drive AI-native transformation across Finance  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 and Finance Engineering  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 from a Product standpoint. Design and optimize core Finance processes and systems Have a product mindset and partner with Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Procurement leaders to improve 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. Act as a strategic partner and communicator 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 product technical decisions and trade‑offs. As needed, 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. Who You Are You've spent your career at the intersection of Product, Finance and Technology and you've moved beyond just keeping systems running. You think in product design, roadmaps, outcomes, and partnerships. You know what a well-run Finance technology function looks like, and you know how to build one. You've worked in or led  teams through real complexity: ERP and other 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. Specifically, you likely bring: 10+ years in enterprise or business systems, with meaningful ownership of Finance technology at a tech or SaaS company 4+ years in product design, responsible for order-to cash, record-to-report, procure-to-pay, revenue/billing, and financial close systems Understanding  of practical SOX ITGC experience and a clean track record working with Internal Audit and external auditors Solid understanding of enterprise-led growth and system features required to enable moving upmarket Fluency in ERP and Finance application architecture (NetSuite/Oracle, Cou