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Lyra Health is a leading mental health care provider serving over 20 million people globally through employer partnerships and health plans. The company has delivered 15+ million mental health sessions and published 35+ peer-reviewed studies demonstrating clinical effectiveness and cost efficiency.
You will lead a comprehensive accounting transformation initiative to modernize Lyra's financial operations as the company prepares for public markets. This is a strategic role combining process redesign, technology implementation, and change leadership across a global organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Accounting Transformation Strategy: Assess current-state capabilities across people, processes, technology, data, governance, and controls. Identify opportunities to strengthen the accounting operating model and translate strategic priorities into detailed project plans with measurable objectives, milestones, dependencies, and expected business outcomes.
Process Excellence & Global Standardization: Simplify, harmonize, automate, and strengthen core accounting processes including record-to-report, financial close, reconciliations, consolidation, intercompany accounting, and financial reporting. Develop clearly defined roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures. Partner with accounting leaders to reduce manual processes, improve close efficiency, and strengthen financial information quality and timeliness.
Technology Automation: Identify opportunities to leverage automation, analytics, AI, and workflow solutions. Partner with Technology and business stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize investments, and ensure successful implementation of finance technology solutions. Promote standardization while reducing reliance on fragmented tools.
Public Company Readiness: Project manage critical accounting readiness activities for SEC-compliant financial reporting, disclosure processes, close timelines, and reporting governance. Identify and resolve gaps impacting IPO timing or sustainable public-company operations.
Change Leadership: Provide clear reporting to senior leadership on transformation priorities, progress, risks, and resource requirements. Lead change-management efforts to drive adoption of new processes, technologies, and organizational structures. Build relationships across functions and geographies, influence stakeholders at all levels, and promote continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field; CPA strongly preferred
- Approximately 12+ years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, or finance transformation with significant leadership experience in complex, high-growth organizations
- Experience leading large-scale Finance or Accounting transformation initiatives involving multiple functions, geographies, systems, and stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience redesigning and standardizing accounting processes and operating models
- Strong understanding of finance technology ecosystems, including ERP, consolidation, financial reporting, close management, reconciliation, workflow, automation, and data/analytics solutions
- Prior experience in public accounting and/or a large, complex multinational organization is a plus
