Gusto is an online payroll, benefits, and HR management platform for small businesses. It provides services such as automated payroll processing, tax filing, health insurance administration, 401(k) accounts, and HR tools.
The role is tasked with transforming Gusto's Infrastructure group into a Platform Engineering organization, focusing on building reliable workflows and a self-serve internal developer platform. This indicates an active initiative to implement new internal systems and infrastructure tooling.
The posting states 'our next generation reporting platform is built on top of Cube and ClickHouse' and describes early-stage foundational platform development – a clear signal they are actively implementing a new analytics/reporting system.
The posting states that the candidate will 'create and execute a technology roadmap for Finance, Legal and Compliance systems' and 'oversee the design, implementation, and management of solutions' including areas such as Procure to Pay, Expense Management, Record to Report, Financial Planning and Analysis, Order to Cash, along with ensuring integration with other platforms (e.g. CRM, payroll processing systems, data warehouses). It further notes that candidates must have 'successfully implemented, optimized and integrated ERP platforms and related enterprise financial systems & tools.' This language provides strong evidence of an active selection and implementation process for ERP and related enterprise financial systems.