Finance Systems Engineer

FINANCE SYSTEMS ENGINEER THE MISSION Whop is on a mission to deliver everyone a sustainable income. Today, 50,000 people make money on Whop every month, and Whop users are on track to earn more than $5 billion this year. We are building the infrastructure for the next generation of internet entrepreneurs, and we will keep going until one billion people earn money on Whop every month. THE ROLE Whop is looking for a hands-on Finance Systems Engineer to build the systems and automations that help Accounting close faster, operate with fewer manual touchpoints, and maintain strong financial controls as the company scales. You will work directly with accounting process owners to understand how transactions enter our systems, flow into the general ledger, reconcile to source data, and become financial reporting. You will then redesign inefficient processes and build reliable, production-ready solutions. This role owns outcomes, not just tickets. You will take projects from problem discovery and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and user adoption. Accounting will retain ownership of accounting policy, judgments, and final financial sign-off. You will own the systems, data flows, automation, and technical controls that enable those decisions. WHAT YOU’LL DO ACCELERATE THE CLOSE - Map the close process, identify its critical path, and build a prioritized automation roadmap. - Automate recurring reconciliations, journal-entry support, accrual calculations, cash activity, intercompany matching, prepaid and fixed-asset schedules, and close reporting. - Replace spreadsheet handoffs with controlled, repeatable workflows and exception-based review. - Build dashboards and alerts that provide real-time visibility into close status, open items, dependencies, and risk areas. - Measure close-cycle time, manual effort, exception rates, rework, and post-close adjustments to demonstrate impact. OWN FINANCE SYSTEMS AND INTEGRATIONS - Own the configuration, reliability, and evolution of the core finance technology stack, including our new NetSuite ERP, procure-to-pay and expense, payments and billing, payroll and HRIS, close-management, and data and reporting systems. - Design and maintain integrations using APIs, webhooks, workflow platforms, and data pipelines. - Establish clear systems of record, canonical definitions, master-data standards, and ownership for critical financial data. - Lead implementations and enhancements from requirements gathering through solution design, testing, UAT, deployment, training, and production support. - Work with Engineering and Data teams when a solution requires shared infrastructure or deeper product integration. BUILD RELIABLE, AUDIT-READY AUTOMATION - Build source-to-target control totals, completeness checks, duplicate detection, data validations, and automated tie-outs into financial data flows. - Maintain logging, lineage, approval history, and supporting evidence so automated processes remain understandable and auditable. - Apply disciplined access, segregation-of-duties, change-management, testing, and release practices. - Monitor integrations and workflows for failures, investigate root causes, and implement durable fixes. - Use AI where it provides measurable value, with appropriate human review, quality gates, permissions, and audit trails. Financially significant decisions should never depend on an unmonitored black box. PARTNER AND DRIVE ADOPTION - Translate accounting requirements into technical designs and technical constraints into clear business tradeoffs. - Maintain a transparent roadmap prioritized by time saved, financial risk, control improvement, and implementation effort. - Create architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, process documentation, operating procedures, and support playbooks. - Train Finance users and build self-service capabilities where appropriate. - Evaluate vendors and new tools, while favoring durable improvements over unnecessary additions to the technology stack. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE - The monthly close becomes faster and more predictable, with fewer manual handoffs and late surprises. - A growing percentage of reconciliations and close activities operate through automated, exception-based workflows. - Financial integrations are monitored, documented, and do not fail silently. - Automated outputs tie back to complete source populations and the general ledger. - The Accounting team spends less time gathering and manipulating data and more time reviewing results and resolving meaningful exceptions. - Auditors can follow system logic, approvals, data lineage, and control evidence without extensive manual reconstruction. - Finance has a clear, prioritized systems roadmap supported by measurable results. WHAT YOU BRING - Five or more years of experience across finance systems, business applications, ERP implementation, data engineering, or financial-process automation. - A demonstrated record of shipping automation that Finance or Accounting teams use in production. - Strong understanding of core accounting processes, including the general ledger, debits and credits, journal entries, reconciliations, record-to-report, procure-to-pay, and the monthly close. - Strong SQL skills and working proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or another relevant scripting language. - Experience designing or supporting integrations through APIs, webhooks, middleware, iPaaS platforms, or ETL/ELT pipelines. - Hands-on experience with a cloud ERP or general-ledger platform such as NetSuite, QuickBooks, Workday Financials, Oracle, SAP, or an equivalent system. - Experience with testing, version control, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and technical documentation. - Understanding of internal controls, financial data integrity, access governance, and audit requirements. - Ability to communicate clearly with accountants, engineers, executives, auditors, and external vendors. - Strong ownership and judgment: you can distinguish between a process problem, configuration problem, integration problem, and situation that genuinely requires custom software. NICE TO HAVE - Experience in a high-growth fintech, marketplace, payments, SaaS, or other high-volume transaction environment. - Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency, or international accounting systems. - Familiarity with tools such as Ramp, Stripe, Zip, Coupa, FloQast, BlackLine, Workato, Snowflake, BigQuery, or dbt. - Experience building controlled AI or document-processing workflows for accounting. - SOX, ITGC, audit-readiness, or public-company experience. - Experience building lightweight internal applications for Finance users. - CPA, CMA, systems certification, or equivalent accounting training. These are helpful but not required. HOW WE WORK Whop is an in office company of about 100 people. Most of the team are former founders and entrepreneurs. We give people real agency, meaningful resources, and ownership of hard problems. We expect everyone to move fast, tell the truth, and improve every surface they touch. - Be technical. Your work should be correct, grounded in fact, and able to withstand scrutiny - Force function. Solve the root cause and make the system materially better - Disagree then commit. Debate hard before a decision, then execute together WHAT WHOP OFFERS - Best in class cash compensation and meaningful equity - A high trust environment with real ownership and direct access to company leaders - Meals, wellness support, and office benefits designed for an in-person team EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Whop is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other status protected by law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process, let us know.