VP Finance

Job description

WE POWER PEOPLE’S PROGRESS. At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact. We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale. Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day. Meet the team! As we continue to scale globally, we seek an accomplished Vice President, Finance to serve as a key member of our leadership team. Reporting directly to the CFO, this executive will play a central role in advancing Preply’s financial strategy, operational discipline, and readiness for future growth milestones, including potential capital-markets activity. The VP, Finance will lead a broad portfolio spanning Business Partnership FP&A, Corporate Finance, Procurement, and the Finance PMO, with dotted-line oversight of Finance Analytics. This leader will act as a trusted advisor to the CFO, executive team, and Board, ensuring strong alignment between strategic priorities, financial performance, and investor confidence. What you'll be doing: - Strategic Leadership: Partner with the CFO and executive leadership to define and execute Preply’s long-term financial strategy, supporting sustainable growth, efficiency, and global scale. - Financial Stewardship: Lead company-wide forecasting, budgeting, capital allocation, and investment planning; ensure a disciplined approach to profitability and cash management. - Investor Readiness: Partner closely with the CFO to strengthen Preply’s external financial narrative and engagement with investors; ensure the Finance organization supports transparency, accuracy, and credibility in all investor communications. - Public-Company Preparation: Drive the evolution of finance systems, controls, and reporting processes required for a potential public-company environment, including governance, compliance, and audit readiness. - Business Partnership: Serve as a key financial advisor to senior business leaders, converting analytical insight into strategic action that advances company goals. Depth and expertise in both B2C marketplace and B2B GTM - Organizational Scale: Build scalable processes, systems, and decision frameworks to support Preply’s global growth trajectory. - Team Leadership: Inspire and empower high-performing teams across FP&A, Corporate Finance, Procurement, and PMO; foster accountability and ownership while celebrating success. - Finance Analytics Collaboration: Align with Finance Analytics to strengthen forecasting accuracy, data quality, and executive-level financial visibility. - Cross-Functional Program Management: Oversee Finance PMO initiatives to ensure disciplined execution of key strategic projects. - Culture and Leadership: Maintain a culture that balances accountability with empathy - rewarding performance, developing talent, and modeling Preply’s principle of constantly pursuing excellence. - AI-Enabled Finance Transformation: Lead the adoption of AI and agentic tools across FP&A, Corporate Finance, and Procurement, identifying where automation, AI-assisted analysis, and agentic workflows can replace manual processes and raise the output quality of the finance org. - AI Literacy & Team Enablement: Set the standard for how the finance team uses AI tools in day-to-day work. Build capability across the team so AI fluency becomes a baseline, not an exception. What you need to succeed: - Experience: 10+ years of progressive finance leadership, including 5+ years at the senior-executive level leading multi-disciplinary teams. - Public-Company Readiness & Operational Expertise: Direct experience preparing for or operating within a public-company environment, with deep understanding of investor expectations, regulatory standards, and reporting rigor. - Investor Partnership: Demonstrated success partnering with CFOs and investor-relations leaders to support external communications and capital-markets engagement. - Strategic Finance Acumen: Proven record of building and scaling FP&A and corporate finance functions that drive performance across global, fast-growing organizations. - Cross-Functional Leadership: Track record of successful collaboration with product, marketing, and operations leaders to align resources with strategic priorities. - Delegation & Empowerment: Demonstrated ability to scale organizations through thoughtful delegation, empowerment, and leadership development. - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics required; MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced credential strongly preferred. - AI & Automation Fluency: Demonstrated experience deploying or scaling AI-assisted workflows in a finance context whether in forecasting, reporting, procurement, or decision support. - Agentic Workflow Judgment: Ability to identify which finance processes are candidates for agentic automation and which require human judgment and the practical experience to tell the difference. WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT AT PREPLY - Open, collaborative, dynamic and diverse culture - Generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com http://Preply.com - Learning & Development budget, including time off for your self-development - Competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance and health insurance - Access to free mental health support platforms - Not in New York? We offer an attractive relocation package to join us in our Preply NYC Hub - Opportunity to shape the lives of learners and tutors from over 175 countries through language learning and teaching Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your TA partner for more information. For NYC, New York-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$300,000 per year - USD$330,000 per year. OUR PRINCIPLES - Care to change the world - We are passionate about our work and care deeply about its impact to be life changing. - We do it for learners - For both Preply and tutors, learners are why we do what we do. Every day we focus on empowering tutors to deliver an exceptional learning experience. - Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters. - Now is the time - In a fast-paced world, it matters how quickly we act. Now is the time to make great things happen. - Disciplined execution - What makes us disciplined is the excellence in our execution. We set clear goals, focus on what matters, and utilize our resources efficiently. - Dive deep - We leverage business acumen and curiosity to investigate disparities between numbers and stories, unlocking meaningful insights to guide our decisions. - Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. We humbly embrace feedback and learn from setbacks. - Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. We build diverse and high-performing teams that can make a real difference. - Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don’t fully agree. We speak our minds, challenge when necessary, and fully commit to decisions once made. - One Preply - We prioritize collaboration, inclusion, and the success of our team over personal ambitions. Together, we support and celebrate each other's progress. DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION Preply.com http://Preply.com is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. That means that Preply will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status.