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You'll take responsibility for understanding prospective customers' finance processes, identifying their requirements and demonstrating how the platform can address their business needs.\nThis is not a traditional sales role. We're looking for someone who understands finance software, enjoys working with customers and can confidently translate business requirements into practical software solutions.\nKey Responsibilities\nWork alongside the Sales team to understand prospective customers' requirements and prepare tailored software demonstrations.\n\nLead discovery conversations to understand customers' purchasing, approval, budgeting and accounts payable processes.\n\nDeliver engaging product demonstrations using realistic business scenarios and customer-specific examples.\n\nAssess how the platform will integrate with customers' existing finance and accounting systems.\n\nUnderstand finance-system requirements, including account coding, approval structures, reporting and data flows.\n\nIdentify potential integration challenges and recommend appropriate solutions or workarounds.\n\nLead solution scoping, documenting customer requirements, proposed configurations, integrations and implementation 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