The Business Operations Associate manages financial operations, including month-end close, audits, tax filings, and improving financial systems. The role requires problem-solving skills in a fast-paced environment while collaborating with various teams and external partners.
Metabase is the easiest way for people to get insights from their data, from tiny startups who get up and running quickly to major corporations with tens of thousands of users. That's why people love us.
We bring data tools with the elegance and simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. We provide an opinionated open source starting point for how companies should measure, analyze and share their data, which is used by tens of thousands of companies.
Metabase’s BizOps & Finance team is a small, high-leverage group that builds the systems keeping the company running smoothly behind the scenes. We cover a wide range of areas — finance and accounting, sales operations, legal operations, compliance, and account management — but we treat them all as flavors of operations. Whatever the task, we take a systems-driven approach — design it, build it, and run it (ideally, automatically). Our goal is to free the rest of the company to focus on building great software.
We’re looking for a high-powered generalist with strong quantitative skills who likes working across a wide range of business areas. You’ll design, build, and operate scalable systems while partnering with internal and external experts to solve ambiguous problems. This is a hands-on role for someone who’s comfortable moving between big-picture strategy and detailed execution — someone who enjoys turning ideas into working systems.
This particular role will focus on our financial operations — managing the month-end close with external accountants, supporting tax and audit processes, and improving the systems that keep our books and billing accurate. You don’t need to come from a traditional finance background — we care more about your ability to learn quickly, solve problems systematically, and keep complex operations running smoothly. You’ll have meaningful exposure to the financial management of a growing company and plenty of opportunities to design better, smarter ways of doing things as we scale.
Responsibilities
- Own and operate the day-to-day processes that keep our financial operations running smoothly
- Manage the month-end close process, and manage our external accountants
- Lead annual financial audits and coordinate deliverables with our auditors
- Prepare data and track progress for tax filings across multiple jurisdictions
- Maintain financial data hygiene
- Own our payments and expense management systems
- Lead cross-functional projects to solve operational problems as they arise
- Identify opportunities to streamline or automate recurring workflows
- Jump in to help with other operational areas when needed — we’re a small team, and we all pitch in
About you
- You’re a high-performing generalist who enjoys tackling complex, ambiguous business problems across different domains
- You move comfortably between high-level design and detailed execution — connecting strategy to the details and building processes that scale
- You have rock-solid quantitative skills and are fluent in spreadsheets
- You’re organized, able to manage multiple projects in parallel, and take satisfaction in getting things done
- You collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and external experts (lawyers, accountants, vendors)
- You have a strong quantitative undergraduate degree (math, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, or finance)
- You have a track record of achievement and a bias for action
- You bring a low-ego attitude — no job is too small or too large
- You have some exposure to accounting concepts, either through education or work experience
- Nice-to-have (for more experienced candidates): experience owning complex projects end-to-end and working in fast-paced, unstructured environments (e.g. startups, consulting, PE/VC)
- Nice-to-have (for more experienced candidates): a top-tier MBA
- Nice to have: working knowledge of SQL
- We’re hiring for this role across a range of experience levels. Title and scope (Associate vs. Manager) will depend on your background and experience.
We're a global team (50% outside the US), fully distributed (from Thailand to California), who get things done asynchronously, with plenty of uninterrupted time, supporting each other to do the best work of our careers. We offer flexibility (define your own schedule and work from wherever you want), autonomy, and an environment that fosters growth, learning, and development. We're relentlessly user-focused and believe in building long-term value, not short-term hacks. And we raised a $30M Series B to take our approach to the next level for years to come.
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Payments And Expense Management Systems
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