Role Description
As a Finance Automation Engineer, you'll help fundamentally reinvent how our finance and accounting function operates. You'll work directly with our accounting team to replace repetitive manual processes with automated, reliable, and auditable workflows. This is a builder role dedicated to finance.
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Reinvent the monthly close.
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Build automated workflows for reconciliations, journal-entry preparation, accruals, intercompany accounting, and financial reporting.
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Build with AI at the center of your workflow using modern AI development tools.
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Connect our finance systems by designing and maintaining integrations between various platforms.
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Build reliable financial data pipelines for automated data extraction, transformation, validation, and reporting workflows.
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Design systems that check themselves with automated reconciliations and data-quality tests.
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Own automation projects from idea to production, working directly with accountants.
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Continuously improve how Finance operates by evaluating new technologies and challenging outdated processes.
Qualifications
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A builder at heart.
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AI-native and technically curious.
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Comfortable with both technology and business processes.
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Independent and resourceful.
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Practical rather than dogmatic.
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Rigorous about accuracy.
Requirements
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Experience building automation, integrations, data pipelines, or data models.
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Real depth in at least one of these areas.
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Hands-on proficiency with SQL and at least one scripting or programming language.
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Experience using AI-assisted development tools.
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A degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
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Understanding of core finance/accounting concepts.
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Concrete examples of something youβve personally built, with measurable impact.
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Experience partnering with finance/accounting stakeholders.
Nice to Have
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Experience with NetSuite or other ERP platforms.
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Experience with financial systems such as Stripe, Avalara, Brex, Ramp, or similar tools.
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Experience with cloud data platforms, dbt, or workflow orchestration tools.
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Experience building AI agents, document-processing workflows, or LLM integrations.
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Experience with multi-entity accounting, financial controls, or audit-ready systems.
What Success Looks Like
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Identify the highest-value automation opportunities across Finance.
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Deliver several meaningful automations into production.
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Demonstrate measurable improvements in manual effort, accuracy, or close-cycle time.
Benefits
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Medical: In Tandem pays 100% of the premium for employees AND 99% for all additional family members.
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401k: Up to a 4% match with immediate vesting.
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Paid leave for all new parents.
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Learning & Development stipend for employees.
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Paid Time Off: 11 Holidays + Winter Break (3 Days) + Volunteer Time Off (1 Day) + Floating Holiday (1 Day).
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Personal Time Off: 15 days for 0-1 years of employment + 20 days for 1-3 years of employment.
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Supportive and flexible working environment β work from anywhere!