Finance Operations Manager

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About Us

LILT is the leading AI solution for enterprise translation. Our stack made up of our Contextual AI Engine, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive Feedback enables global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. With LILT, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale.

While our core AI technology might share similarities with ChatGPT and Google Translate, it's what we do with it that makes LILT truly revolutionary. Our patented Contextual AI Engine goes beyond basic translations, understanding the nuance of our customer's content and target audience to deliver hyper-accurate, business-focused results. Our connector-first approach seamlessly integrates with our customer's existing workflows, and our human-adapted feedback loop ensures continuous improvement, making LILT a constantly evolving AI partner for your global ambitions.

The Finance and Accounting Team at LILT

The Finance and Accounting Team is remote but all on the East Coast. The team is led by our CFO/COO and includes this role, Controller, Accounting Manager, Sr. Accountant, and Director of FP&A. The team works closely together to complete day-to-day activities, month-end close responsibilities, and planning analysis. The team thrives on continuous improvement of processes and efficiencies.

Where You’ll Work

Get the best of both worlds at LILT! Dive into dynamic in-office energy 2 days a week, sparking creativity and forging bonds with your awesome team. Then, seamlessly shift gears and crush your to-do list from the comfort of your home base for the rest of the week. It's the perfect harmony of productivity and personal freedom. Want a peek inside? Visit our Careers page!

This position can be based out of our Emeryville, CA or Indianapolis, IN offices and will be expected to work in the office in a hybrid capacity. Additional locations include the Washington D.C., New York City, and Boston metropolitan areas where you will start as fully remote and then transition to hybrid once offices are opened in those locations.

Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.

What You’ll Do

We are seeking an experienced Finance Operations Manager to join our team. This role is crucial for driving and enhancing our finance operations and accounting processes. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with strong project management skills and technical aptitude.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with the CFO to translate financial strategy into quarterly finance operations plans. Own the execution of this plan; prioritize initiatives, allocate resources, coordinate communication, and hold DRI’s accountable.

• Manage key financial operations including invoicing, commissions, and linguist payments. Partner with Finance, Revenue, and Production to troubleshoot, design, and scale these processes. 

• Serve as a functional expert for Netsuite, Tipalti, Tabs, and Zencentiv, owning the development, enhancement, maintenance, and administration.

• Liaise between the business and technical teams to translate business problems into technical requirements. Lead the systems roadmap execution, including prioritization, requirement gathering, project timeline, user acceptance testing, and issue resolution.

• Partner with accounting to support month-end close, flux review processes, and deliver high-quality financial reporting

• Drive best practices, systems controls & validations, and data governance across financial tools

• Champion tool adoption and change management through the development of trainings, documentation, and enablement resources

Skills and Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in finance operations, preferably in a high-growth technology company

• Strong technical skills with proficiency in financial systems and tools (e.g., NetSuite)

• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Strategic mindset with the ability to identify process improvements and implement solutions

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights

• Experience with change management and cross-functional collaboration

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or CPA is a plus

Our Story

Our founders, Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate.  As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. They were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company and left to start a new company to address this need – LILT. 

At its core, LILT has always been a machine learning company since its incorporation on March 6, 2015. At the time, machine translation didn’t meet the quality standard for enterprise translations, so LILT assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, LILT has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, believing that this foundation was imperative to the future of enterprise translation.

Benefits:

• Compensation: At market salary, meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays

• Medical Benefits: Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, and more. In addition, LILT pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability

• Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months.

• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle

LILT is an equal opportunity employer. We extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to an individual’s race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, veteran or marital status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. We are committed to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.