Director, Financial Operations (Contract)

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day. Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company. For more information visit cultureamp.com . We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Director, Financial Operations (14 month Parental Leave Cover) to lead and manage the global Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Treasury and Payroll functions. A critical priority for this role will be owning and delivering a global payroll transformation, which will be the central focus and key challenge across the first 6 months. This includes driving the organisation’s transition to an outsourced global payroll model. The successful candidate will partner closely with the current Director of Financial Operations during the final stages of the RFP and vendor selection process to ensure continuity and context transfer. Following vendor signing, you will assume full accountability for implementation governance, vendor oversight, and the successful transition to steady-state operations. We are open to candidates who have led or played a key role in large-scale transformation initiatives (such as systems, process, or operating model transformations), even if these have not been payroll-specific. Beyond transformation, you will provide executive oversight for AR, AP, and Treasury, ensuring strong internal controls (removing single point sensitivity), scalable processes, and high performance. We are looking for a leader who is deeply curious about the intersection of AI and Finance; someone who will proactively identify opportunities to disrupt manual transactional noise with automated, AI-driven workflows and leverage technology to drive efficiencies as Culture Amp scales. As part of this team of amazing humans, You will Strategy and leadership Champion a rigorous assessment of current AR, AP, and Treasury workflows to identify AI-led optimisation opportunities. You will be expected to challenge the default "buy" approach, first exploring how AI and internal system enhancements can drive efficiency before proposing large-scale external vendor implementations. Provide high-level leadership across the four pillars of global financial operations: Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Treasury. Ensure these functions operate with strong "four-eyes" controls and zero single point sensitivity. Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating broader company strategy into relevant financial operations priorities and anticipating future operational requirements. Payroll Partner in the payroll outsourcing RFP and vendor selection process, contributing operational insight, risk assessment and implementation considerations to support informed decision-making. Post vendor selection, lead implementation governance and vendor management, establishing clear milestones, risk mitigation plans, SLAs and performance metrics to ensure successful transition and long-term service excellence. Ensure ongoing payroll accuracy, timeliness and compliance across jurisdictions, leveraging internal payroll specialist expertise for detailed technical configuration and regulatory interpretation. Accounts Payable, Receivable Treasury Maintain executive-level oversight of global AR, AP, and Treasury functi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)