Head of Finance

About Superstep

Superstep Capital is a growth-oriented private equity firm established by experienced technology services operators and investors who partner with founder-led businesses to build category-leading services platforms. The firm’s investment approach centers on long-term value creation through close collaboration with management teams and targeted investment in leadership development, go-to-market capabilities, and delivery excellence, while preserving strong cultures and trusted client relationships.

About the Role

Zencore is seeking a Head of Finance to help scale the core finance and accounting function of a newly formed, high growth professional services platform. The role will own foundational financial operations and reporting while partnering closely with executive leadership on post close integration, M&A, and board level reporting at a critical inflection point in the platform’s growth. This role is for someone eager to help build a platform from early scale through a successful exit.

Responsibilities

- Own company-wide financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting

- Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes with audit-quality rigor

- Establish and enhance internal controls, policies, and procedures appropriate for a PE-backed environment

- Own board-level financial packages, KPIs, and investor reporting

- Lead financial aspects of post-merger integration, including systems consolidation, reporting alignment, and process standardization

- Support M&A activities including financial diligence, purchase accounting, and integration planning

- Lead or support ERP implementation and optimization to enable scalable, services-oriented financial reporting

- Own external audit processes and manage relationships with auditors and advisors

- Own the contract lifecycle across client and vendor agreements, including drafting, redlining, and negotiating MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, and renewals; coordinate with outside counsel on material terms and maintain a centralized contract repository

- Partner with executive leadership on strategic planning, capital allocation, and operational decision-making

- Build and enhance reporting templates and dashboards to improve visibility into profitability, utilization, and cash flow

- Coordinate with Superstep Capital on performance reporting, value creation, and other ad hoc initiatives necessary to support a fast-growing platform

Qualifications

- 10+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience required

- Audit experience required

- CPA strongly preferred

- Experience in a private equity-backed environment strongly preferred

- Professional services experience strongly preferred

- Hands-on experience with ERP implementation and financial systems transformation

- Experience supporting M&A and post-close integration

- Board or investor reporting experience

- Experience managing legal function preferred

- Strong communicator with the judgment and flexibility to operate in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment

- Ability for occasional travel

Why work at Zencore?

- We Are Trusted Experts: Our teams bring deep, hands-on experience to solve the hardest cloud and AI challenges.

- We Value Candor: We share unbiased opinions and aren't afraid of hard truths—our clients view us as true subject matter experts.

- We Are the Missing Link: We connect our enterprise clients directly to Google Cloud innovation, moving with agility where larger consultancies stall out.

- We Remove Uncertainty: We bring structured playbooks that eliminate risk from complex cloud migrations and AI deployments.

- We Show Empathy: We build lasting client trust because we understand the real-world operational complexities of enterprise technology.