What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Finance, IT Product Specialist position at Databricks?
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We’re seeking a Director of Finance, IT Product Management to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for technology solutions that power our Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Payments, and T&E organizations. This role is pivotal in driving operational excellence, automation, and AI-enabled transformation across the global Finance systems landscape. You’ll partner with business and IT leaders to streamline and automate processes across Order-to-Cash (OTC), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Record-to-Report (R2R), FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Credit Card Payments, and Travel & Expense (T&E) — while ensuring operational rigor to support month-end close, daily issue management, and business continuity. You’ll also identify and lead AI-driven opportunities to automate finance and accounting processes, enhance decision intelligence, and increase operational efficiency.
This role reports to the VP of Application Product Management within the CIO organization. You will lead a team of high-performing Application Product Managers and work closely with executive leadership across all lines of business to drive strategic initiatives, optimize processes, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
The Impact You Will Have
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Zone 1 Pay Range
$230,700—$323,025 USD
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance
If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.
We’re seeking a Director of Finance, IT Product Management to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for technology solutions that power our Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Payments, and T&E organizations. This role is pivotal in driving operational excellence, automation, and AI-enabled transformation across the global Finance systems landscape. You’ll partner with business and IT leaders to streamline and automate processes across Order-to-Cash (OTC), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Record-to-Report (R2R), FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Credit Card Payments, and Travel & Expense (T&E) — while ensuring operational rigor to support month-end close, daily issue management, and business continuity. You’ll also identify and lead AI-driven opportunities to automate finance and accounting processes, enhance decision intelligence, and increase operational efficiency.
This role reports to the VP of Application Product Management within the CIO organization. You will lead a team of high-performing Application Product Managers and work closely with executive leadership across all lines of business to drive strategic initiatives, optimize processes, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
The Impact You Will Have
- Define and execute the Finance systems product vision and roadmap across Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Payments, and T&E.Partner with Finance leadership to optimize workflows, improve automation, and strengthen operational controls across OTC, P2P, R2R, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and T&E.
- Establish operational rigor to support:
- Month-end and quarter-end close processes
- Daily ticket and issue management with clear SLAs
- Root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
- Drive AI-driven automation opportunities to enhance reconciliations, forecasting, anomaly detection, close acceleration, and exception handling.Build scalable system integrations across ERP, treasury, payment, and forecasting platforms to ensure seamless data flow and automation.Lead T&E system optimization, ensuring a frictionless user experience, strong compliance, and ERP/HR integration.
- Drive system enhancements to improve financial accuracy, reporting speed, and compliance (including SOX).Partner cross-functionally with Procurement, Legal, Security, and Data teams to ensure governance, audit readiness, and scalability.
- Lead and mentor a team of product managers and business systems analysts to deliver measurable outcomes and operational excellence.
- Champion a data-driven culture through analytics, insights, and AI-based recommendations to support business decisions.
- 10 years of experience in Finance systems product management, ERP transformation, or business systems leadership.
- Deep domain knowledge across OTC, P2P, R2R, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Payments, and T&E.Proven operational rigor in supporting month-end close, daily production support, and continuous improvement.Experience implementing AI or automation use cases in Finance and Accounting — such as intelligent matching, close acceleration, or predictive forecasting.
- Hands-on experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, Oracle Cloud, SAP) and T&E platforms Expertise in designing and managing system integrations across banking, treasury, and payments ecosystems.Strong understanding of SOX compliance, internal controls, and audit processes.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage executives and drive cross-functional alignment.Analytical mindset with experience using data platforms (e.g., Databricks) to enable insights and automation.Experience operating in high-growth, global technology environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, Business Administration, or related field; MBA, Master's in Information Systems, or advanced degree in Finance/FinTech preferred
- Change management certification or equivalent experience leading technology-driven organizational transformations preferred
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Zone 1 Pay Range
$230,700—$323,025 USD
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance
If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.
Salary : $230,700 - $323,025