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Zencore

Cloud consulting for Google Cloud transformations

Head of Finance

Full-Time
No salary listed
Expert
Remote in USA
Remote

About the job

Requirements
  • 10+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience.
  • Audit experience.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise resource planning implementation and financial systems transformation.
  • Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions and post-close integration.
  • Board or investor reporting experience.
  • Strong communication skills and the judgment and flexibility to operate in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
  • Ability to travel occasionally.
Responsibilities
  • Own company-wide financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting.
  • Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes with audit-quality rigor.
  • Establish and enhance internal controls, policies, and procedures appropriate for a private-equity-backed environment.
  • Own board-level financial packages, key performance indicators, and investor reporting.
  • Lead the financial aspects of post-merger integration, including systems consolidation, reporting alignment, and process standardization.
  • Support mergers and acquisitions activities, including financial diligence, purchase accounting, and integration planning.
  • Lead or support enterprise resource planning implementation and optimization to enable scalable, services-oriented financial reporting.
  • Own external audit processes and manage relationships with auditors and advisors.
  • Own the contract lifecycle across client and vendor agreements, including drafting, redlining, and negotiating master service agreements, statements of work, nondisclosure agreements, and renewals; coordinate with outside counsel on material terms and maintain a centralized contract repository.
  • Partner with executive leadership on strategic planning, capital allocation, and operational decision-making.
  • Build and enhance reporting templates and dashboards to improve visibility into profitability, utilization, and cash flow.
  • Coordinate with Superstep Capital on performance reporting, value creation, and other ad hoc initiatives necessary to support a fast-growing platform.
Desired Qualifications
  • Certified Public Accountant credential.
  • Experience in a private-equity-backed environment.
  • Professional services experience.
  • Experience managing the legal function.

About the company

Zencore is a cloud consulting firm that helps enterprises move to and optimize on Google Cloud. It provides services for cloud migration, application modernization, and data analytics, applying AI and ML to improve operations and security. Zencore’s offerings work through tailored, hands-on consulting: they assess client needs, design cloud architectures, migrate workloads, unwind complex systems, and implement data solutions on Google Cloud, delivering practical outcomes rather than vendor-driven choices. What sets Zencore apart is its exclusive focus on Google Cloud and its commitment to unbiased recommendations, which helps clients avoid vendor lock-in and choose the best-fit solutions. The company is goal-oriented: to accelerate business outcomes by optimizing total cost of ownership, enhancing security, and driving innovation through Google Cloud transformations.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Superstep Capital invested August 25, 2026, adding growth capital and expansion resources.
  • Gridmatic signed a multi-year managed-services deal, signaling sticky recurring revenue.
  • Bitcoin Suisse and 2026 awards validate enterprise delivery across North America and EMEA.

What critics are saying

  • Revenue depends on Google Cloud; Google can disintermediate partners with native services by 2027.
  • Service businesses face margin compression as big consultancies undercut Zencore on implementations.
  • If enterprise AI budgets slow, ZenAI Factory becomes a feature, not a platform.

What makes Zencore unique

  • Zencore is Google Cloud-only, with four 2026 Partner of the Year awards.
  • ZenAI Factory, launched August 25, 2026, productizes agentic AI delivery across workflows.
  • Former Google Cloud leaders built senior-staffed consulting around migrations, data, and managed services.

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AiThority
Aug 26th, 2026
Superstep Capital invests in Zencore to build the leading independent Google Cloud AI services platform.

Superstep Capital invests in Zencore to build the leading independent Google Cloud AI services platform. Zencore also introduces the ZenAI Factory, a new AI solution framework for Google Cloud customers, built on Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Aug 26, 2026 Prev Next 1 of 43,530 Zencore, an independent Google Cloud consultancy founded in 2021 by former Google Cloud leaders, announced a strategic investment from Superstep Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm exclusively focused on digital services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Superstep Capital has invested in Zencore, an independent Google Cloud consultancy now launching ZenAI Factory, a new agentic AI framework with three solutions available today. Zencore is a Google Cloud Premier partner with four Partner of the Year awards, nine specializations, and hundreds of successful engagements across North America and EMEA. The company remains independent. This investment is designed to allow Zencore to increase its commitment to full stack AI capabilities on Google Cloud. This includes the launch of three ZenAI Factory solutions, new offerings that help enterprises transform operations using AI on Google Cloud. A New Offering for Agentic AI on Google Cloud The ZenAI Factory delivers a solution framework based on Zencore's deep expertise and production delivery experience. Designed for enterprises adopting agentic AI on Google Cloud, these solutions accelerate time-to-value and drive meaningful business outcomes. Zencore is launching an initial set of three ZenAI Factory Solutions available as of today. ZenAI Factory is also now available in conjunction with Forward Deployed Engineering resources from Zencore. * Agentic Software Factory: Embed AI coding agents, including Google Antigravity, across every stage of building software, from writing and reviewing code through testing and release. * Agentic Data Factory: Connect data across BigQuery and other enterprise systems, then put AI agents to work building models and generating reporting that teams do by hand today. * Agentic Operations Factory: Give infrastructure the ability to fix itself. AI agents monitor systems continuously, diagnose problems, and resolve incidents in real time. "As enterprise demand for agentic AI rapidly accelerates, organizations need trusted partners who can translate breakthrough technology into production-ready business outcomes," said Jim Anderson, Vice President, North America Partner Ecosystem & Channels at Google Cloud. "Zencore's ZenAI Factory brings proven delivery expertise to Google Cloud customers, providing a clear pathway to deploy agentic solutions across software development, data, and operations. We are thrilled to see Zencore continue to innovate on Google Cloud and help our joint customers accelerate time-to-value with these advanced AI frameworks." A Long-Term Investment in the Google Cloud Ecosystem Superstep Capital is led by former operators who have built and scaled $100M+ digital services firms. Its investment supports growth in leadership, delivery capability, go-to-market, and alliance development, with a long-term horizon. "Zencore is all-in on Google Cloud and its success is a byproduct of that focus," said Stuart Coleman, Managing Partner of Superstep Capital. "We're excited to help Zencore scale its cutting edge AI solutions, industry-leading capabilities and transformational impact on clients within the Google Cloud platform." Enterprise AI adoption is opening a higher-value services layer across data, MLOps, and agentic delivery. Google Cloud is nearly a $100 billion run-rate business that grew 82% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, and Google has committed $750 million through its agentic AI partner fund to route that demand to specialized partners. Few firms are positioned to meet this wave of demand. Zencore is one of the only independent, full-stack, Google-native services firms delivering AI at production scale. "We founded Zencore to create the kind of Google Cloud services company we wished existed when we worked at Google: one that exclusively deploys experienced architects and engineers to solve hard problems side by side with clients," said John Forstrom, Co-Founder and CEO of Zencore. "Today, Google Cloud full stack AI adoption within the enterprise is creating the largest opportunity our ecosystem has seen. This investment gives us the resources to meet the opportunity without changing what got us here. Same team, same focus, but more capacity and three new AI Factory solutions plus FDE capabilities for the work that matters."

Associated Press
Aug 25th, 2026
Superstep Capital invests in Zencore to scale Google Cloud AI services and launch ZenAI Factory

Zencore, a Google Cloud consultancy founded in 2021 by former Google Cloud leaders, has received a strategic investment from Superstep Capital, a private equity firm focused on digital services. Transaction terms were not disclosed. The investment will support Zencore's expansion of AI capabilities on Google Cloud. The company is launching three ZenAI Factory solutions designed to help enterprises deploy agentic AI: Agentic Software Factory for AI-powered software development, Agentic Data Factory for AI-driven data modelling and reporting, and Agentic Operations Factory for automated infrastructure management. Zencore is a Google Cloud Premier partner with nine specialisations and four Partner of the Year awards. The company operates across North America and EMEA, delivering migrations, data platforms, and AI solutions to enterprise clients whilst remaining independent following the investment.

Zencore
Aug 8th, 2024
Zencore Ranks #31 on CRN's 2024 Fast Growth 150 List

Zencore ranks #31 on CRN's 2024 Fast Growth 150 list.

Zencore
Jan 19th, 2022
Gridmatic partners with Zencore

Zencore is excited to announce that Gridmatic has entered into to a multi-year agreement with Zencore as their Google Cloud managed services provider.

PR Newswire
Sep 1st, 2021
Zencore hired Lesley Young as Vice President of Operations on Sep 1st 21'.

Zencore Group today announced that Lesley Young has been named as an addition to the executive team as Vice President of Operations.