Get to know Okta Okta is The World's Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology-anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we're looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We're building a world where Identity belongs to you. The Business Technology Team Business Technology is on a mission to accelerate Okta's scale and growth. We bring world-class business acumen and technology expertise to every interaction. We also drive cross-functional collaboration and are focused on delivering measurable business outcomes. The Director, Business Technology - Core Financials Opportunity In this role, you will be responsible for building and managing scalable and sustainable architecture, organizational strategy, and solution designs and serve as a thought leader for ERP platform in the Finance domain including Order to Cash, Record-to-Report, and Procure-to-Pay business functions. As a Director, you will be responsible for the overall design and maintenance of our ERP platform, including data architecture, feature roadmap, and integrations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and lead the efforts to deliver solutions based on a deep understanding of business requirements. You will lead a dynamic and geographically distributed team responsible for constantly evolving the systems and processes that support our Finance and Accounting functions. You'll work closely with business leaders, partners, and our Business Technology teams to prioritize, then align resource plans and schedules. What you'll be doing Partner with senior business leaders on their strategic roadmap, understand their operational issues and opportunities(business processes) and create technical solutions to grow business operations and ensure compliance. Manage the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to end-of-life, ensuring products meet needs and remain competitive Identify and recommend creative solutions to improve business operations, business engagement and project delivery. Oversee the portfolio of projects, and lead projects to achieve desired goals and benefits in consideration of planned timelines and budgets. Analyze current state needs and challenges, identify improvement and automation opportunities, portfolio planning and tool rationalization. Liaise and resolve audit queries with Internal and External auditors on SOX controls Develop a collaborative organization and culture highly focused on providing efficient and timely solutions to key business challenges in multiple, sometimes overlapping, functional areas Hire, develop and retain a highly flexible and culturally diversified team which constantly engages with the business to ensure IT is focused on the right priorities and meeting business goals Have the ability to understand, translate business needs and drive out-of-box adoption to industry standard/best-in-class platforms Represent Finance processes in technology assessments, solution design, and implementations. Work with business partners on prioritization and proactively anticipate gaps and overlaps within the Finance portfolio. Serve as a delivery lead for the projects and provide best practices and strategic platform direction. Establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization at all levels, and be viewed as a team player with exceptional communication, analytical, and leadership skills Stay abreast of technology trends and industry best practices and influe