Scott Stevens
Currently working on accounting operations and finance systems at Automattic.
Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and more.
Most of my work has been about making the things behind the accounting work better: reporting structures, finance systems, month-end processes, automation, and the handoffs that help teams get through the close without relying on workarounds.
I like the kind of problem where something is messy or manual and needs to become easier to run. I would usually rather fix the thing than keep working around it.
Work and life
I am a qualified Chartered Accountant in Australia and a NetSuite Certified Administrator. Before Automattic I worked at EY, Telefónica in London, King, and Thomas Foods, across audit, consolidation, public-company reporting, group finance, and close process improvement.
The thread through most of it has been the systems behind the accounting. I like understanding how the process works, where it breaks, and what needs to change so people are not relying on memory, workarounds, or manual checks to get through the month.
Outside of work, life is mostly family, school, sport, home projects, travel when we can, and trying to keep enough room for whatever I am learning next.
That bias toward systems goes back a long way. I built my first computer when I was twelve, before YouTube made that kind of thing easy. I have never really lost the instinct to open the box, understand the parts, and work out how to make the system behave.