Overview As Director of Financial Systems, you will drive the next generation of financial platforms at the intersection of finance, engineering, and technology, requiring visionary leadership and deep technical expertise. You’ll be responsible for the financial platforms that underpin Yelp’s revenue streams—from multi-format ad marketplaces to SaaS offerings and consumer transactions. You’ll work cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, and Commerce Engineering to ensure financial accuracy, drive innovation, and support Yelp’s expanding business and product lines. In this remote role, your impact will directly empower Yelp’s financial operations and future scalability.

Responsibilities

Develop and drive a multi-year technology strategy for Yelp’s financial systems, with particular focus on integrating AI/ML for data analysis, reporting, planning, and anomaly detection.

Lead multiple software development teams in architecting financial solutions at scale, ensuring systems support Yelp’s diverse and growing business, including complex revenue and billing models.

Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members, fostering both their day-to-day success and long-term professional growth.

Facilitate technical conversations and critical decision-making around architecture and data flow with finance and engineering leaders, balancing priorities of compliance, risk, and business needs.

Identify and execute on key initiatives to continuously improve financial system architecture, data flows, integration standards, and SOX compliance practices.

Partner directly with executive leadership, including VPs and the CFO, aligning technology strategy with immediate and future business needs—challenging assumptions and driving innovation where needed.

Hire and build a high-performing, inclusive team that reflects Yelp’s values, ensuring a fun, diverse, and growth-minded engineering culture.

Qualifications

Proven platform experience delivering new features and products through high-performing teams, with a strong solutions architecture background in complex financial environments (e.g., Oracle, Anaplan, and Zuora).

Hands-on experience in software engineering and leadership, including architecting major systems, coaching and growing highly capable teams of engineers and analysts, and their managers.

Technical depth in making architectural and design decisions for scalable, compliant financial platforms. Skilled at evaluating trade-offs between time-to-market, flexibility, and regulatory requirements.

Demonstrated ability to influence executive decision-makers and align diverse stakeholders.

History of creating and executing long-term technical vision, with proven examples of product or infrastructure roadmaps you have established that delivered incremental and long-term business value.

Experience working with Agile methodologies in regulated financial system environments, maintaining data integrity and SOX compliance within fast-paced, iterative development cycles.

Strategic thinker with a deep understanding of AI/ML and its practical application in automating, analyzing, and safeguarding financial systems at scale.

Benefits

Compensation range is $194,000-$310,000 annually. Depending on your role and level, you may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.

This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across the US.

You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here.

Closing Yelp is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition or disability. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation, you may contact accommodations-recruiting@yelp.com or 415-969-8488.

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