Lyra Health is a mental health company that helps organizations support the well-being of their global workforces. Its platform connects employees and their families with evidence-based care through a global network of mental health professionals, using AI matching to help members find suitable support quickly. Lyra Health serves adults, children, couples, and families across a range of mental health needs, with programs designed to improve access to care, employee health, and workplace outcomes. The company operates across healthcare, healthcare insurance, and SaaS, with a team of 501–1,000 employees.
Senior Accounting Transformation Lead, Lyra Health (Remote - United States)
Lead Lyra Health’s global accounting transformation by advancing operating-model design, process standardization, finance automation, and public-company readiness. The role supports a mental-health care provider through scalable accounting operations and technology improvements.
Description
- Evaluate capabilities across people, processes, technology, data, governance, and controls to strengthen the accounting operating model.
- Convert strategic priorities into project plans with measurable goals, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, and expected outcomes.
- Simplify, standardize, automate, and improve record-to-report, financial close, reconciliations, consolidation, intercompany accounting, financial reporting, and other controllership processes.
- Define roles, responsibilities, policies, procedures, and performance expectations.
- Work with accounting leaders to reduce manual effort, improve close efficiency, and increase the quality and timeliness of financial information.
- Identify and deploy automation, analytics, artificial intelligence, and workflow solutions.
- Collaborate with Technology and business stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize investments, and deliver finance technology solutions.
- Manage SEC-compliant financial reporting, disclosures, close and reporting schedules, supporting documentation, and reporting-governance readiness activities.
- Identify and help address gaps that could affect IPO timing or durable public-company operations.
- Update senior leadership on transformation priorities, progress, risks, decisions, and resource needs.
- Lead change-management initiatives and promote adoption of new processes, technologies, organizational structures, and working methods.
- Build cross-functional and international relationships while influencing stakeholders at every organizational level.
- Advance continuous improvement, accountability, collaboration, and operational excellence across the global Accounting organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field; CPA is strongly preferred.
- Approximately 12 or more years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, or finance transformation, including substantial leadership experience in complex, high-growth organizations.
- Experience leading large-scale Finance or Accounting transformation programs across multiple functions, geographies, systems, and stakeholder groups.
- Proven ability to redesign and standardize accounting processes and operating models.
- Strong knowledge of finance technology ecosystems, including ERP, consolidation, financial reporting, close management, reconciliation, workflow, automation, and data and analytics tools.
- Public accounting experience and/or experience in a large, complex multinational organization is advantageous.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life, and disability insurance.
- Lyra for Lyrians, including coaching and therapy services.
- Company equity through discretionary restricted stock units.
- Paid time-off policies covering vacation, sick days, and company holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- 401(k) with up to 3% matching.
- Monthly technology allowance.
- Well-being perks and activities.
- Surprise swag.
- Regular community celebrations.