Senior Director of Finance Transformation

Position Summary

The Director, Finance Transformation is a capstone leadership role within the Finance Systems organization, responsible for bridging all three Finance Systems verticals: Enterprise Application Support, Transformation, and Reporting & Data. Reporting to the VP, Finance Systems, this role serves as the senior accountable leader for end-to-end finance process design, system implementation, and the data infrastructure that underpins financial reporting and decision-making across the enterprise.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior accountable owner of the end-to-end finance systems solution, spanning the full lifecycle from transaction initiation (P2P, R2R, O2C) through financial close and reporting
• Provide strategic direction to a team of dotted-line process and functional owners, ensuring cross-vertical alignment and that decisions within any one domain are evaluated for their downstream impact across the full solution
• Serve as the senior escalation point for cross-vertical issues, design conflicts, and trade-offs spanning process, data, and reporting boundaries
• Represent the integrated Finance Systems solution to Finance leadership and executive stakeholders
• Define and maintain the global finance process design framework, establishing standards for how processes are designed, documented, and governed across all legal entities and functional domains
• Own and communicate the finance systems solution roadmap, translating strategic business priorities into a sequenced, cross-vertical delivery plan in partnership with IT, Finance leadership, and external implementation partners
• Lead business requirements definition at the program level for finance systems initiatives, ensuring requirements capture the full transaction-to-report scope and that cross-vertical dependencies are identified and resolved before configuration begins
• Lead ERP and financial system implementations, providing oversight of functional design governance, cross-workstream integration, and delivery partner performance
• Own UAT governance for finance system implementations, ensuring test coverage spans the end-to-end solution and that sign-off reflects validated integration across process, configuration, and reporting layers
• Own the change management and adoption strategy for finance systems initiatives, ensuring impacted users across all legal entities and functional roles are prepared for changes spanning the full transaction-to-report lifecycle
• Set direction and standards for finance training program design
• Lead user community communications, ensuring the finance organization receives timely, integrated messaging about system changes, enhancements, and go-live milestones across the end-to-end solution
• Own the governance framework for finance system change requests, establishing the intake, evaluation, and prioritization process through which all three process and functional owners surface improvement opportunities to Finance leadership
• Own the strategic vision for finance data and reporting, ensuring that data architecture, reporting frameworks, and analytics capabilities reflect and support upstream process design decisions made across transactional process domains
• Champion data and analytics as a strategic asset across the Finance organization, partnering with Finance leadership to define reporting priorities, KPI frameworks, and standards for evaluating the quality and usefulness of financial reporting outputs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field required; MBA or Master’s degree preferred
• CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional certification strongly preferred
• 10+ years of progressive finance, accounting, or consulting experience required, including at least 5 years leading finance transformation or systems implementation initiatives in a complex, global environment
• Proven track record as a Global Process Owner or equivalent senior lead on ERP implementations (D365 F&O, SAP, Oracle, Workday, or equivalent), including ownership of business requirements, configuration oversight, UAT, and training
• Demonstrated experience with finance data architecture, data warehousing, and ETL/integration tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Informatica, Talend)
• Hands-on experience with financial reporting tools and BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent); exposure to AI/ML applications in finance preferred
• Experience leading finance data migration efforts, including data mapping, cleansing, validation, and cutover management
• Strong background in master data governance, KPI design, and financial planning and performance measurement frameworks
• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect operational detail to enterprise strategy and communicate effectively across finance, IT, and executive leadership audiences
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills; able to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools; proficient in BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and Microsoft Excel
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; proven ability to influence and align across geographies, functions, and organizational levels