Financial Systems Lead

Financial Systems Lead ABOUT RAMP Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. ABOUT THE ROLE Ramp is building the financial OS that companies run on. This team is the proof of concept: we use our own product to run Ramp's books, and the systems that make that work are built and owned here You've closed the books. You've also closed pull requests. This role needs both. The core is accounting: sub-ledgers, reconciliation engines, automated close processes. The kind of work where a wrong journal entry means the books don't balance and the auditors call. Treasury, capital markets, and FP&A are in scope too, prioritized by where the pain is. This isn't a traditional PM role. You won't write PRDs and hand them off — you'll hand engineers working prototypes. You'll sit with our Controller and understand why a reconciliation breaks, then go build the fix. For smaller changes and enhancements, you'll commit directly to production. We need someone who can ship high-quality financial software fast because they actually understand what the software needs to do and what the pain points of the stakeholders are. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build internal financial systems. Sub-ledgers, reconciliation tools, close automation, and occasionally treasury or FP&A tooling. You'll write AI agent generated code, do data analysis, and ship working prototypes that become the spec. For smaller changes, you'll commit directly to production. - Design and build AI-powered tools that make financial professionals faster. Working systems that solve real problems, not strategy decks about AI. - Work directly with Ramp's finance team — our Controller, accountants, treasury analysts. Translate their pain into software. Speak their language: GL, DR/CR, trial balance, intercompany eliminations. - Lead engineers through prototypes, not documents. You'll work closely with a world-class engineering team, but your primary artifact is working code, not a requirements doc. You set direction by showing, not telling. - Own outcomes, not roadmaps. You'll have fungible scope across the Financial Systems portfolio. The best problem to solve next is the one you'll go find. WHAT YOU'LL NEED - At least 5 years in a product-building role. - Deep financial domain expertise. You've worked in or built for accounting, FP&A, treasury, audit, or financial operations. You know what a month-end close feels like. You can read a trial balance and spot what's off. You care about getting this right because you've felt the pain firsthand. - Fluent with AI-native dev tools — you ship with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or whatever's best this week. You have strong opinions on the toolchain. You've shipped features or tools using LLMs, not just talked about them. Not interested in AI — immersed in it. - Strong product judgment and first-principles thinking, especially at the intersection of structured financial data, complex systems, and user workflows. - Ability to translate between technical and finance audiences — synthesizing accounting requirements into software architecture and vice versa. NICE-TO-HAVES - Experi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)