Overview
Global Finance Director, Trilogy (Remote) - $400,000/year USD
This range is provided by Trilogy. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range
$200.00/hr - $200.00/hr
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Managing a large team of finance staff
- Babysitting monthly close cycles or manually approving transactions
- Accepting default ERP workflows as “good enough”
- Delegating “dirty work”—this role leads by doing
- Working in a slow, stable workplace—this is rapid build-and-scale mode
What You Will Be Doing
- Designing and maintaining an AI-first finance system that supports fast-growing education businesses
- Writing Important Design Decisions that simplify and scale key finance workflows
- Reviewing Deep Dive and Improvement Plans with written coaching that sharpens logic and trains AI and humans
- Participating in high-leverage meetings on budgets, expansion, vendors, and compliance
- Ensuring finance operations—tuition, audits, tax—run seamlessly at scale
Global Finance Director Key Responsibilities
Architect and operate a lean, AI-native finance system that powers multiple high-growth education businesses, with zero bloat and maximum scale.
Basic Requirements
- CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, or MBA
- 10+ years in finance leadership roles such as Finance Manager, Controller, CFO, or equivalent, with demonstrated scope and progression
- Experience in a senior finance leadership role (SVP, CFO, or equivalent) with full ownership of all core finance functions
- Strong command of US GAAP and integrated financial statements
- Deep experience operating and improving ERP systems (NetSuite, SAP, etc.), ideally in complex, multi-entity organizations
- Led or conducted 5+ external audits with a Big 4 firm, either as the auditor or client
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to engage senior leadership directly
- Located within UTC-8 to UTC+3 time zones
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Familiarity with K-12 education models in the U.S. (private, charter, ESA programs)
- Experience building finance automation or AI-driven workflows from scratch
- Previous exposure to finance operations in multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction businesses
About Trilogy
Hundreds of software businesses run on the Trilogy Business Platform. For three decades, Trilogy has been known for 3 things: Relentlessly seeking top talent, Innovating new technology, and incubating new businesses. Our technological innovation is spearheaded by a passion for simple customer-facing designs. Our incubation of new businesses ranges from entirely recent moon-shot ideas to rearchitecting existing projects for today’s modern cloud-based stack. Trilogy is a place where you can be surrounded with great people, be proud of doing great work, and grow your career by leaps and bounds.
Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $200 USD/hour, which equates to $400,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly.
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Crossover Job Code: LJ-3652-AU-Melbourn-GlobalFinanceD.019
Seniority level
- Executive
Employment type
- Full time
Job function
- Business Development, Finance, and Engineering
Industries
- Accounting, Financial Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting
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📌 Global Finance Director, Trilogy (Remote) - $400,000/year USD
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