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VP Finance
Vice President, Finance
At a Glance
We power people’s progress. Join Preply—a pioneering Ed-Tech company, transforming learning through human-led, AI-enhanced teaching and collaboration. As a unicorn ($150M Series D), we’ve redefined language education with 100,000+ tutors teaching learners in 180 countries. Your impact will shape global education and help learners and educators thrive across continents.
Meet the Team
We’re scaling globally and are looking for a strategic thought leader—a Vice President, Finance—to partner with our CFO, advance Preply’s financial strategy, and drive executive-tailored financial storytelling. With a dynamic leadership style, exemplary financial acumen, and an innate focus on team empowerment, you’ll evolve our global FP&A, corporate finance, procurement, and PMO teams toward public-company readiness while fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
About the Role
As VP, Finance, you will serve as the trusted financial advisor to the CFO, Board, and executive team, ensuring a seamless alignment between strategic vision, financial performance, and investor confidence. Here’s what you’ll own:
Core Responsibilities
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Chief Financial Storyteller
- Partner with the CFO and senior leadership to define and execute Preply’s long-term financial strategy, ensuring it supports sustainable growth, efficiency, and global expansion.
- Advise on capital allocation, investment decisions, and profitability targets, aligning business unit objectives with financial prudence.
- Develop a disciplined FP&A framework that drives operational excellence across B2C and B2B ecosystems.
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Strategic Financial Leadership
- Lead end-to-end financial planning (forecasting, budgeting, and cash flow management), preparing the organization to surpass growth milestones.
- Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and GTM teams to align financial strategy with creative direction and revenue growth.
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Investor/Future-Ready Finance
- Enhance Perply’s investor communications and investor relations, ensuring transparent, accurate, and compelling financial reporting—preparing the finance team for public company standards.
- Forecast future capital markets engagement and facilitate regulatory compliance roads to ensure enterprise readiness.
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System-wide Transformation
- Guarantee compliance, governance, and audit processes are robust, future-proof, and scalable to support (eventual) public-company expectations.
- Work with leadership to optimize procurement tools and financial controls, reducing friction and fostering transparency in operations.
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Cross-functional program management
- Oversee the Finance PMO, driving strategic, cross-functional initiatives for confident stakeholder accountability.
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AI and Automation Champion
- Lead AI and agentic tools adoption, modernizing processes in FP&A, procurement, and decision support.
- Identify high-impact automation opportunities across financial operations and bandwidth-clearing high-activity workflows.
- Establish AI literacy benchmarks for the finance team, ensuring AI competency becomes a core capability.
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Value.Driven Team Lead
- Inspire, empower, and mentor high-performing teams across FP&A, Corporate Finance, Procurement, and PMO functions.
- Advocate for uplifted ownership, reliability, and excellence—while rewarding initiative and celebrating impact at all scales.
What We Need from You
We’re looking for 10+ years of elite finance leadership, exhibiting:
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Executive Finance Background
- 5+ years as a senior finance leader, delivering strategic FP&A, corporate governance, and enterprise optimizations.
- Breadth of experience spanning B2C marketplaces, enterprise tech, or EdTech—preferably category-defining growth trajectories.
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Public-Company Fluency
- Hands-on experience on capital-markets teams, from preparing for an IPO or SA to maintaining investor coalitions.
- Irrefutable insight into investor expectations, regulatory frameworks, and the art of financial transparency.
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Investor Relations Leadership
- History of collaborating directly with CFOs and investor-relations teams to craft compelling investor narratives.
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Strategic Finance Performance
- Disciplined, growth-accelerating streaks in scaling FP&A, corporate, global teams, and programs—with metric-driven validation.
- Imagine measurable bubble-bursting, cash flow liberation, or leadership-aligned projections—your impact matters.
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Collaborative Leadership
- Notable distance collaboration with GTM, product, and ops teams to storm-proof strategies and drive shared stakes.
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Selective Scaling Skills
- A documented empowerment legacy, scaling via training, delegation, and leadership development cultures.
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Education & Certification
- Primarily rooted in Finance, Accounting, or Economics.
- Advanced merits preferred: de facto aligns with an MBA, CPA, or equivalent specialized credential.
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AI-Setup & Finish
- Deep promo experience streamlining AI in financial workflows—whether predicting profitability, scandalizing spend visibility, or leveraging agentic tools for procurement energy.
- Epitomize process selection wisdom: discern which systems to automate and where human inquiry yields the edge.
Why This Roles Meat You
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Freedom and Lots of It
- Open with benefits paradigm: equal or better than any industry standard: competitive salary, cash bonus Structures, performance-based rewards, backed by equity in backing up your vision/investment.
- Fiscal Focus: enjoy a tax policy alignment that includes actual mandated payment (only earnable), health insurance integration across families, plus parental prenatal consultation during childbearing years.
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Increasing Rewards
- Preply Community Hours: Unlimited commitment style of growth through learning experiences, one paid course annual (now!!) cruises beyond limits
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Accountable yet flexible
- Intellectually generously advanced pursuits become paid donated charity, vehicle/gain control.
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Mindful Care
- Prioritizing, humanity: ** scenarios for sleepiness away sessions**. Ensuring mental health** OK status**: onboarding Intercontinued becomes more than a taktik at.
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Learner Educator Inclusion
- You will anchor Tomorrow’s global learning pathway as a teacher or hotspot, celebrating diverse failing passages.
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Principle First:
- “Care to change the world”—Build tying responsibility to passionate impacts. Hold every title with secrecy ownership.
Our Principles
At Preply, we shape our path guided by these Pillars of Purpose:
- Care to Change the World – Give copiousness of heart, attending deeply to transformative impact.
- We Do It for Learners – Everything we move buzzes to empower both Preply tutors and learners delivering exceptional experiences.
- Keep Perfecting – Simplicity, extreme clarity and unwilling joy elevate each day’s design process.
- Now is the Time – Move with tactical trails, slowing to rest of the world ahead and back.
- Disciplined Execution – Set heaps with rupture ambition and clear good dreams even in a hurrah hypergrowth state.
- Dive Deep – Sift queries, analyze extremity-driven outliers unveil, forging golden truths fringing operational decisions.
- Growth Mindset – Feed self-improvement appetite, learn from falsely fails, propel forward untouchable progress.
- Raise the Bar – Expect perтуа = baseline only; obligations grow—together raise/advance.
- One Preply – Reaffirm shared purpose by prioritizing lifts bridging H’s over competed egos.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Preply harnesses power in differences. We believe fundamental norms (race, colour, sex identity, national origin=simply =same):
- Emphasis never lacks lens discrimination.**: _Applicants may never state—race is philosophical_;org incl encipable and just data is vital to learn.
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