Director - Finance Transformation - Financial Reporting & Accounting

About the role

The Director, Finance Transformation plays a key leadership role in technology and process assessment of an assigned Finance functional area and presents recommendations on initiatives, product design and delivery to leaders and Finance product owners.

Responsibilities

• Play a key leadership role in technology and process assessment of an assigned Finance functional area and present recommendations on initiatives, product design and delivery to leaders and Finance product owners.
• Create business plans for assigned projects including the development of complex financial cost benefit modeling, and track performance against those plans through delivery and post-implementation.
• Leverage broad Finance, operational and transformation expertise to ensure solutions are executable, scalable, and aligned to delivery objectives while supporting business goals and delivery efficiency gains to reduce costs to Finance areas while improving the experience for our customers.
• Lead change management, operational readiness, and business adoption efforts with clear accountability for adoption and business readiness at go-live, while acting as a champion of change leading organizations through digital transformations.
• Independently conduct complex quantitative and qualitative analysis to inform delivery decisions, risk mitigation, and execution planning.
• Own and lead end-to-end delivery of large transformation initiatives with a focus on ensuring timely delivery, quality execution, active management of risks and dependencies, and achievement of intended business outcomes.
• Serve as a transformational leader by mentoring lower-level staff and at times may directly manage a small team of professionals.
• Establish strong, effective and collaborative partnerships with key business area leaders, project managers and subject matter experts to ensure alignment, execution discipline, and successful delivery outcomes.
• Maintain clear ownership of deliverables across initiatives, eliminating ambiguity in roles, accountability, and execution.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Finance subject matter experts, Finance change resources, and IT professionals, while managing across initiative and technical dependencies to deliver value.
• Define and track success metrics for initiatives, ensuring delivery of measurable business value and intended outcomes.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks, dependencies, and trade-offs across initiatives and other workstreams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent relevant business experience.
• Finance or actuarial professional certification (e.g. CPA, CMA, CFA, FSA) preferred.
• 8+ years of experience delivering value through problem solving, analytics, and/or digital assets, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Proven understanding of Finance business processes and behaviors & expectations to invest in technology.
• Drive Finance Transformation through partner engagement, user acceptance, and change management.
• Demonstrated accountability for end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, including planning, execution, and outcome realization.
• Experience in leading and building a change culture with stakeholder management, operational readiness & buy-in with strong communication.
• Ability to translate strategy into execution and deliver outcomes in complex environments.
• Proven leadership ability with ability to influence, coach and develop others.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking ability with strong understanding of Agile methods.
• Experience building and presenting complex cost benefit analysis to obtain buy-in from senior leaders for company investment, and tracking value realization post-delivery.
• Experience delivering data and/or digital based solutions that have a direct impact on customer, employee, and partner experience.
• Strong skills in conducting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research and turning the results into actionable recommendations.
• Proven results focusing on quality delivery and delighting customers; holds self to high standards of delivery.
• Collaborative team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership ability with ability to influence, coach and develop others.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking ability with strong understanding of Agile methods.
• Experience building and presenting complex cost benefit analysis to obtain buy-in from senior leaders for company investment, and tracking value realization post-delivery.
• Strong skills in conducting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research and turning the results into actionable recommendations.
• Proven results focusing on quality delivery and delighting customers; holds self to high standards of delivery.
• Collaborative team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization.

Skills

• Proven leadership ability with ability to influence, coach and develop others.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking ability with strong understanding of Agile methods.
• Experience building and presenting complex cost benefit analysis to obtain buy-in from senior leaders for company investment, and tracking value realization post-delivery.
• Strong skills in conducting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research and turning the results into actionable recommendations.
• Proven results focusing on quality delivery and delighting customers; holds self to high standards of delivery.
• Collaborative team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization.

Benefits

• Award-winning culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a priority
• Performance Based Incentive Plans
• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
• Mental health support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Student loan repayment options
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environments

Pay

$109,100.00-$224,000.00

Schedule

N/A