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About the Role
You will own several concurrent implementations end-to-end, managing the plan, customer relationship, scope, timeline, and outcome, handing over to Customer Success post go-live. Your customers are senior, technical, and time-poor Financial Controllers, Finance Directors, and CFOs at fast-growing multinational SaaS and tech companies. You will address complex problems without textbook answers, shipping solutions and moving to the next challenge.
Responsibilities
- Own several concurrent implementations end to end, from kickoff to go-live
- Run the customer relationship through implementation — Controllers, Finance Directors, CFOs
- Translate finance requirements into platform design — chart of accounts, entity structure, consolidation logic, reporting
- Lead data migration — chart of accounts mapping, opening balances, historical data, cutover
- Hold scope through the project — keep delivery aligned to what was sold, surface and reset drift early
- Push back on requests that won't work, and bring the customer with you
- Spot projects going off-track before the customer does, and intervene
- Train and enable customer finance teams to run on Light from day one of go-live
- Contribute to the playbooks, templates, and patterns the team builds over time
Requirements
- Degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field
- 5+ years in finance transformation, ERP implementation, or finance advisory — Big 4, a finance-focused boutique, or a vendor-side professional services team (NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Workday Financials)
- Fluent in accounting and can hold your own with a Controller on multi-entity consolidation, intercompany eliminations, accrual accounting, statutory vs management reporting
- Qualified accountant is a plus, not a requirement
- Bring structure to messy projects — clear plans, sharp prioritisation, and the judgement to know which details matter and which don't
- Excel at building trust with C-suite executives and finance leadership teams through clear communication and consistent delivery
- Comfortable working cross-functionally — delivered through Product, Engineering, Sales, and customer teams without formal authority
- Diagnose implementation issues quickly and deliver practical solutions that balance customer needs with technical feasibility
- Have a real implementation with your name on the go-live — vendor-side, consulting-side, or as the lead on a customer-side migration
- Use AI tools daily, have specific opinions on where they help in delivery work and where they don't
- Fluent English
- Additional European languages a plus
- Multi-jurisdiction experience (IFRS, US GAAP, local GAAPs) is a bonus
- Experience losing a customer or missing a go-live and learning from it is a bonus
- You've only ever implemented one ERP, or only ever on one customer - you’ll be running multiple implementation projects simultaneously
- You need a PMO, a mature methodology, or a big delivery org around you to operate - you’ll be operating in a startup environment, without a large structure/org surrounding you, ownership and a self starter nature is key
- You've never owned a go-live solo; someone else was always accountable
- Can't give a concrete example of telling a senior customer 'no' and making it stick
- Haven't gone all in on AI at Light and need people just as passionate about it
Skills
- Finance transformation
- ERP implementation
- Finance advisory
- Accounting
- Multi-entity consolidation
- Intercompany eliminations
- Accrual accounting
- Statutory reporting
- Management reporting
- Project management
- Prioritisation
- Communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem-solving
- AI tools
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + potential stock options
Benefits
- Generous package of paid annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based
- Regular socials and company off-sites
- Huge opportunity for career growth as you'll help shape a market-defining product
About the Company
- Light exists to replace factory-era ERPs with software that feels alive.
- Our Smart Financial Platform gives modern, global companies superpowers - automated accounting, real-time reporting, and financial flows that move at the speed of the business.
- We build with our customers, ship fast, and obsess over craft.
- Light has gone from idea to the operating core for leading companies like Lovable, Legora, and Keyshot.
- People don’t just use Light - they enjoy it.
- We’re an early team defining a new software category.
- Backed by world-class investors and advised by industry titans, we’re building category-defining products with the freedom to ship ambitiously and own outcomes.
- Come help us make Light the global default for next-gen finance.
- Working at Light means you're embarking on an exciting journey to reshape the future of multinational financial operations.
- Our cheat-code is that we've built something like this before - and are now doing it again, only better.
- Our goal is to make global finance effortless and empower companies to make informed decisions.
- Join the rocket ship while it's taking off 🚀