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# Finance Business Partner at Celonis

- **Company:** Celonis
- **Location:** Raleigh US, NC
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/celonis/jobs/8016849003?gh_jid=8016849003

## Job description

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity. World's leading companies trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. We believe there's a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by giving AI the context to understand how every business process really works. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.

The Team:

The Finance organization at Celonis is a strategic partner to our business, responsible for steering growth, profitability, and capital allocation across the company.

Within Finance, the Go-To-Market (GTM) Finance team partners closely with the GTM executive leadership (Sales, Value Engineering, Marketing, Services, Partner & Ecosystem) to drive predictable, efficient growth and to ensure financial discipline in every aspect of our go-to-market engine.

The GTM Finance team is critical to Celonis’ successful go-to-market execution and operates in a highly visible environment to executive leadership. The goals and objectives of the GTM FInance team include:

- Guiding and supporting executive GTM leadership to achieve their operational & financial objectives
- Providing objective, data-driven insights that assist in strategic decision making
- Acting as a trusted advisor and advocate to the GTM leadership
- Developing and operating relevant KPI measurement frameworks to help steering business performance
- Contributing to drive the overall financial success of Celonis

The Role:

The North America GTM Finance Business Partner (NAM GTM Finance BP) will be the Finance Partner to the North America General Manager, who owns the GTM execution in North America. He (She) will also be a key part of a fast paced, highly effective, global GTM Finance team and will collaborate closely with the NAM Revenue Strategy & Operations team. This role will report into the Vice President of GTM Finance. The role will include:

- Finance business partnership support for our global Go-to-Market organization in North America — build trusted relationships with key business partners, combining commercial acumen with data-driven analysis to provide insightful recommendations
- Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting — analyzing financial results, distilling key trends, assessing current and future business risk, and presenting key messages to senior leadership
- Drive core financial planning and analysis processes for North America, including annual operating plan, rolling forecasting for bookings, revenue, and expenses
- Develop and analyze key performance indicators across, supporting key business stakeholders
- Ad-hoc financial analysis to assess new strategic initiatives and projects
- Communicate and present results of analysis to NAM executive leadership
- Utilize Workday and Pigment for management reporting and variance analysis

That qualifications you need:

- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in FP&A, business/commercial  finance, or related field.
- BA/BS degree, concentrations in Finance, Economics, and/or Accounting preferred; MBA from top program is a plus
- Technology and/or SaaS experience
- Professional Services P&L experience
- Highly advanced Excel skills with extreme attention to detail
- Ability to embrace ambiguity and break down complex problems to provide clear and effective recommendations
- Impeccable analytical skills and intellectual curiosity to understand drivers and outcomes
- Excellent communication skills; can establish credibility, build consensus, and partner cross-functionally without direct authority
- Ability to interpret data, order and assess its value and present the findings to the relevant stakeholders in a clear and concise way
- Team player with the ability to partner cross functionally in growing global organization

Visa Sponsorship is not offer for this position What Celonis can offer you:

- Pioneer Innovation: Work with the global leader in Process Mining and the Process Intelligence Graph to shape the future of AI-driven business operations.
- Ownership from Day 1: Every full-time "Celonaut" is an owner, receiving Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants.
- Unrivaled Family Support: Benefit from our inclusive parental leave policy—24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from your first day of employment.
- Work-Life Integration: Enjoy Unlimited PTO (in applicable regions) and generous PTO globally, as well as a flexible hybrid work model that balances remote focus with vibrant office collaboration.
- Continuous Growth: Elevate your skills through our 70-20-10 learning framework, mentorship programs, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
- Holistic Well-being: Prioritize your health with subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated "Wellness Weeks" that prioritize work/life balance.
- Drive Sustainability: Participate in annual Impact Days, where you receive paid time off to volunteer for community and environmental causes with your local office, or virtually.
- Global Inclusion & Belonging: Find community through our Inclusion Think Tank and participate in our annual Inclusion Days, ensuring every voice is heard and valued.
- Value-Driven Impact: Join a mission-led organization where our core values—Live for Customer Value, The Best Team Wins, We Own It, and Earth Is Our Future—drive every decision.

About Us:

Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI, empowering organizations to analyze, design, and operate AI-driven processes. The Celonis Platform is powered by the Celonis Context Model, which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence to create a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can understand — turning AI’s operational blind spots into operational clarity. Industry-leading companies around the world trust Celonis and its global ecosystem of partners to make their AI agents, people, systems, and processes work together, achieving transformational outcomes. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.

Get familiar with the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform by watching this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5oRJGhJYg&list=PLuVor-ZUD4pnM6G33C5D0tjXUvlTPYBRe).

Celonis Inclusion Statement:

At Celonis, we believe our people make us who we are and that “The Best Team Wins”. We know that the best teams are made up of people who bring different perspectives to the table. And when everyone feels included, able to speak up and knows their voice is heard - that's when creativity and innovation happen.

Your Privacy:

Any information you submit to Celonis as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Celonis’ [Accessibility and Candidate Notices](https://www.celonis.com/careers/candidate-notices)

By submitting this application, you confirm that you agree to the storing and processing of your personal data by Celonis as described in our [Privacy Notice for the Application and Hiring Process](https://www.celonis.com/careers/privacy-notice/).

Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools

We rely on an artificial intelligence tool to match the information from your resume to the relevant Celonis job descriptions. This processing is limited to the information provided in your resume or in your candidate profile. The tool produces a match score per candidate for a role, suggests preliminary ranking, and provides recommendations.

The tool is only used for support in parts of the job application process, including to facilitate the identification of the relevant Celonis Jobs for candidates and recruiters. All final decisions are made by hiring managers and the Celonis talent acquisition team. Hiring managers and HR specialists use this tool responsibly, are aware of the risk of potential bias, and are equipped to mitigate it.

Please be aware of common job offer scams, impersonators and frauds. Learn more [here](https://www.celonis.com/careers/fraud-alert/).

## About Celonis

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Celonis provides a Process Intelligence Platform that uses data mining and AI to help organizations analyze, improve, and automate their business processes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D Extension, Decacorn status achieved in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Germany and New York, USA (dual HQ)
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Alexander Rinke, Bastian Nominacher, Martin Klenk

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Enterprise Software, Process Mining, Process Intelligence, AI
- Target customers: Large enterprises (B2B), across all industries including supply chain, finance, IT, and manufacturing
- Mission or purpose statement: "We make processes work for people, companies, and the planet." The company aims to help the world's businesses run more efficiently and sustainably.

## Products & Services
- **Celonis Process Intelligence Platform**: The core platform that mines data from enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, etc.) to create a digital twin of business processes, identify inefficiencies, and recommend improvements.
- **Celonis Context Model (CCM)**: Launched in 2024, this is a new AI layer that combines end-to-end process data with business knowledge, providing operational context for enterprise AI agents and human decision-makers.
- **Process Mining**: The original technology that visualizes how processes actually run (vs. how they are designed), identifying bottlenecks and deviations.
- **Execution Management System (EMS)**: A suite of apps that help companies take action on process insights to improve performance in real-time.
- **AI-Powered Decision Intelligence**: Following the agreement to acquire Ikigai Labs, Celonis is integrating advanced AI for predictive and prescriptive process optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $13 billion (Series D extension, as of 2021)
- **Key Metric**: $6.5 billion in realized value for customers to date; over 5,000 enterprise deployments; 1,400+ companies use the platform
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, 83North, Durable Capital Partners, T. Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton Investments, Arena Holdings, QIA (Qatar Investment Authority)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Over 3,000 employees globally (up significantly from earlier years)
  - 20+ offices worldwide including Munich, New York, Madrid, Bangalore
  - Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Process Intelligence Platforms
  - Won the German President's Award for innovation (first software company to do so)
  - Acquired Ikigai Labs (2024) to strengthen AI capabilities

## Competitive Advantages
- **Process Intelligence Graph**: A proprietary data model that provides a "common language" for processes across different enterprise systems, making it uniquely hard to replicate.
- **First-mover and category leader**: Celonis essentially created the Process Mining category and remains the dominant player, with the largest customer base and deepest integrations.
- **Massive data moat**: The more processes the platform analyzes, the better its AI models become, creating a powerful network effect.
- **Enterprise AI context**: The Celonis Context Model solves a key problem for enterprise AI—lack of operational context—making it a critical infrastructure layer for AI adoption in large companies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise AI industrialization**: Celonis is pivoting to become the operational backbone for enterprise AI, ensuring AI agents act on accurate, contextual process data.
- **Expanding the Context Model**: Making the CCM the standard layer for any AI deployment in large enterprises.
- **Acquisition integration**: Absorbing Ikigai Labs to bring advanced decision intelligence to the platform.
- **Global expansion**: Continued hiring and office growth in key markets (India, US, Europe).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Best Team Wins" is a core value. The company emphasizes collaboration, humility, curiosity, and a founder's mentality ("We Own It").
- **Impact**: Employees work on technology that directly reduces waste and carbon emissions for the world's largest companies, aligning with the value "Earth is Our Future."
- **Awards**: Named one of BuiltIn's Best Places to Work in the U.S. 2025; Madrid office named one of Spain's top 100 workplaces (2022-2024); Global Learning team won a Gold Strategy Award in 2024.
- **Global & flexible**: 20+ offices with a mix of remote and hybrid roles. Major hubs in Munich, New York, Madrid, and Bangalore.
- **Benefits**: Globally inclusive benefits packages covering physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Annual "Impact Days" (50,000+ hours given back to communities).
- **Growth**: The company is in a high-growth phase (decacorn, expanding into AI), offering strong career development opportunities.

## Sources
1. [celonis.com](https://www.celonis.com/company/about-us)
2. [celonis.com](https://www.celonis.com/)
3. [careers.celonis.com](https://careers.celonis.com/)
4. [boards.greenhouse.io](https://boards.greenhouse.io/celonis)
5. [careers.celonis.com/join-us](https://careers.celonis.com/join-us/open-positions)

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