Finance Automation EngineerDepartment: Finance
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Remote USA - In Tandem
Compensation: $95,000 - $125,000 / year
DescriptionAs 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. This isn't a traditional accounting role, and it isn't a conventional ERP engineering position. You'll be an engineer embedded in Finance, using modern development tools, AI, and automation to build systems that scale with the business. We're equally interested in an accountant who learned to build software and an engineer who developed a passion for finance. What matters most is your ability to turn complex, manual processes into working technology.
What you will accomplish:- Reinvent the monthly close. Build automated workflows for reconciliations, journal-entry preparation, accruals, intercompany accounting, and financial reporting, allowing accountants to focus on judgment and exceptions rather than repetitive execution.
- Build with AI at the center of your workflow. Use modern AI development tools such as Claude Code and similar technologies to accelerate software development. Identify opportunities to incorporate AI into accounting operations where it can improve accuracy, efficiency, or decision-making.
- Connect our finance systems. Design and maintain integrations between NetSuite, Avalara, AP platforms, banking systems, and other data sources using APIs, scripts, and automation tools. Eliminate unnecessary spreadsheet exports and manual data transfers.
- Build reliable financial data pipelines. Develop automated data extraction, transformation, validation, and reporting workflows. Establish accurate, consistent financial data that can support both accounting operations and management reporting.
- Design systems that check themselves. Implement automated reconciliations, data-quality tests, exception alerts, audit trails, and appropriate approval workflows. Ensure financial automations are accurate, secure, and maintainable.
- Own automation projects from idea to production. Work directly with accountants to identify high-value opportunities, build working prototypes, deploy solutions, measure results, and maintain what you've built.
- Continuously improve how Finance operates. Evaluate new technologies, challenge outdated processes, and help build a finance organization capable of supporting substantially greater scale without proportionate increases in manual effort.
Who you are:- A builder at heart. You get more satisfaction from permanently eliminating a repetitive task than from completing it faster for the hundredth time.
- AI-native and technically curious. You actively experiment with new technologies and have demonstrated that AI can make you a more productive developer or systems builder.
- Comfortable with both technology and business processes. You understand that great automation requires knowing not just how a process works, but why it exists.
- Independent and resourceful. You don't need a detailed specification to get started. You're comfortable discovering problems, building prototypes, and iterating toward production-ready solutions.
- Practical rather than dogmatic. You know when to build custom software, when to use an existing platform, and when AI introduces unnecessary complexity.
- Rigorous about accuracy. You understand that financial automations need strong controls, repeatable results, and clear accountability.
What you bring:- Experience building automation, integrations, data pipelines, or data models in a business-systems, finance-systems, or analytics-engineering capacity
- Real depth in at least one of these areas, not just surface exposure - e.g., genuine ownership of consolidation, close automation, or a production data pipeline, not a tool you touched once
- Hands-on proficiency with SQL and at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar products to build working software. Experience deploying AI-powered workflows or agents is a plus.
- A degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field - we care more about what you've built than which of these it was
- Understanding of core finance/accounting concepts (month-end close, GAAP, reconciliations), whether from a finance background, a technical role embedded in a finance team, or genuine self-teaching
- Concrete examples of something you've personally built, with measurable impact (time saved, errors eliminated, manual steps removed, faster reporting)
- Experience partnering with finance/accounting stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical systems
Nice to Have- Experience with NetSuite or other ERP platforms.
- Experience with financial systems such as Stripe, Avalara, Brex, Ramp, or similar tools.
- Experience with cloud data platforms, dbt, or workflow orchestration tools.
- Experience building AI agents, document-processing workflows, or LLM integrations.
- Experience with multi-entity accounting, financial controls, or audit-ready systems.
A CPA or traditional accounting background is not required. We care substantially more about what you can build than your degree or job title.
What Success Looks Like In your first six months, we hope you'll have identified the highest-value automation opportunities across Finance, delivered several meaningful automations into production, and demonstrated measurable improvements in manual effort, accuracy, or close-cycle time.
Over time, your success will be measured by how much more efficiently, reliably, and intelligently our finance function operates-not by the number of spreadsheets you maintain or tasks you personally complete.
How We Support You: - Medical: In Tandem pays 100% of the premium for employees AND 99% for all additional family members
- 401k: Up to a 4% match with immediate vesting
- Paid leave for all new parents
- Learning & Development stipend for employees
- Paid Time Off: 11 Holidays + Winter Break (3 Days) + Volunteer Time Off (1 Day) + Floating Holiday (1 Day)
- Personal Time Off: 15 days for 0-1 years of employment + 20 days for 1-3 years of employment
- Supportive and flexible working environment - work from anywhere!
