Waymo is seeking a Finance Operations Lead to enhance procure-to-pay processes globally, manage a high-performing team, and drive financial efficiency and risk management.
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of strategies that enable scalable, efficient and controlled procure to pay processes globally including: purchase requisitions, PO management, supplier management, and payments.
- Design and rollout of modern procurement orchestration tools (e.g., Oro) and scale our international P2P system architecture to support global growth.
- Act as an expert in Finance Operations across multiple areas and processes, providing thought leadership and new approaches to enhance the organization's effectiveness.
- Manage and develop a high performing team.
- Partner with the Business Systems Engineering team and other cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize and develop requirements for procurement projects.
- Evaluate information or data to draw conclusions, generate solutions, evaluate outcomes, adding value to business objectives.
- Prioritize resources needed to execute the assigned activities, effectively managing work performed internally and through third party service providers.
- Define risk mitigation and compliance procure to pay processes.
- Use AI strategically to drive productivity, creativity, and innovation.
- Coach the team to seek out opportunities for human-AI collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or related field.
- 12-15+ years experience in Finance Operations or Process Optimization, including 8+ years managing/leadership in a rapid growth environment.
- Ability to identify and implement financial processes optimizations.
- Ability to monitor the risk environment and provide insights for effective financial risk management.
- Ability to apply standards-based practices, documented procedures, service-level agreements (SLAs), and quality control.
- Ability to lead, develop, and support a team to deliver impact.
- Highly effective communicator and influencer (written, verbal and interpersonal skills).
- Ability to prioritize assignments and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Conditions
- Salary Range: $238,000 — $294,000 USD.
- Eligible for Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.