Digital Senior Director — Finance Transformation, Financial Services
About the Role
Huron is a global consultancy collaborating with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation, and navigate constant change. Through strategy, expertise, and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital, and cultural transformation. In this role, you'll assist banks, asset management, and insurance organizations in transforming and creating new business models to meet changing customer needs and drive sustainability.
Huron's Digital practice provides advisement and delivers solutions to optimize business processes, improving financial performance, operational efficiency, and employee experience. With expertise in enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management, human capital management, customer relationship management, financial crime and compliance, regulatory reporting, business analytics, and automation (AI, Machine Learning, etc.), Huron helps clients drive results and gain competitive advantage.
Our comprehensive offerings include organizational improvements and software consulting leveraging digital skills, Cloud capabilities, and managed services. We provide vendor-specific services for Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, UiPath, Blue Prism, and others. As a leader across our partner platforms, our team members hold numerous certifications on these products.
Responsibilities
- Lead business-process discovery across the Financial Services (FS) value chain with senior client stakeholders: map current-state processes, define gaps and target operating models, quantify business outcomes, and sequence transformation.
- Translate deep process understanding into credible, compelling, platform-agnostic solutions that differentiate Huron in competitive pursuits.
- Design end-to-end architectures connecting the processes being transformed to the appropriate applications, data, risk, compliance, and reporting layers.
- Position business-process transformation as the entry point into broader enterprise programs alongside the FSI Commercial Lead and Digital Advisory Lead.
- Own qualified pipeline and revenue; manage pursuit cadence, develop proposals and pricing, and lead final solution presentations.
- Codify repeatable, outcome-based transformation offerings and accelerators across FS value-chain domains.
- Serve as delivery principal post-close oversight, providing continuity and quality assurance from sale through execution.
- Orchestrate cross-domain solutions alongside the Data & Analytics, GenAI/Automation, and Customer Experience capability teams.
- Build pipeline through thought leadership and direct executive engagement at target accounts (CFO, COO, CRO, Controller, Chief Accounting Officer, CIO, CTO, and other business-line leaders).
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, computer science, or a related field; advanced degree, CPA, or CMA preferred.
- 10+ years leading business-process and technology transformation in Financial Services, enterprise applications, or consulting AND/OR 10+ years in the Financial Services industry across multiple value-chain domains (e.g., finance, FP&A, risk and compliance, treasury, payments, lending, servicing, operations).
- Deep business-process fluency: diagnose current-state processes, design target operating models, and quantify business outcomes across the FS value chain — not limited to the office of the CFO.
- Solution architecture experience connecting business processes to the right applications, data, and risk/compliance/reporting layers.
- Proven pre-sales and solutioning track record: discovery, estimating, proposal development, and leading final presentations.
- Demonstrated P&L ownership and/or revenue origination and growth as a client-facing partner, principal, or practice lead.
- C-suite advisory and executive relationship management experience (CFO, COO, CRO, Controller, CIO/CTO, and business-line leaders).
- Proven thought leadership as indicated by speaking engagements and/or publications.
- Willingness to travel weekly.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with one or more enterprise partner platforms such as Oracle, Workday, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, UiPath, and Blue Prism.
- Partner and alliance experience and co-sell motions.
Pay
The estimated base salary for this job is $215,000 - $275,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range Huron reasonably expects to pay at the time of posting. The actual salary will vary based on factors including skills, certifications, experience, market changes, and required travel.
This job is eligible for Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, reflecting a pay-for-performance philosophy. Inclusive of the annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range is $268,000 - $371,000 USD.
Benefits
The job is eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans, which include medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other wellness programs.