VP, Finance & Transformation

About the role

We are seeking an exceptional finance executive to help shape the future of our global Finance organization. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role will serve as a strategic partner to the CFO and Finance leadership team, with a mandate to transform how Finance operates through AI, automation, advanced analytics, technology, process redesign, and new organizational models. The role will initially operate with a lean structure and significant influence across Finance rather than a large dedicated team. The successful candidate must be comfortable moving between strategy and hands-on execution, personally driving transformation initiatives while building alignment across Finance, IT, Data, AI, and the business.

Responsibilities

• Define the Future Finance Operating Model
  • Partner with the CFO to define and execute a multi-year roadmap for the Finance organization of the future.
  • Assess Finance’s current capabilities, processes, organizational structure, and technology to identify high-value transformation opportunities.
  • Evolve Finance toward a more agile, capability-oriented operating model.
  • Determine optimal work allocation between people, AI, and automation.
  • Simplify organizational processes and decision-making to eliminate unnecessary complexity.
  • Establish clear measures of success for Finance transformation, including productivity, decision speed, forecast accuracy, insight quality, and business impact.
• Build an AI-Native Finance Function
  • Identify and scale high-value applications of AI and automation across Finance.
  • Redesign workflows to leverage AI and automation rather than automating existing manual processes.
  • Develop an approach for incorporating AI agents, automation, and advanced analytics into Finance operations and decision support.
  • Partner with technology and data teams to strengthen Finance’s data, systems, tools, and AI infrastructure.
  • Establish governance, controls, and human accountability for AI-enabled Finance processes.
  • Build organizational capability and confidence to continuously adopt new technologies.
• Transform How Finance Delivers Business Insights
  • Shift Finance from reporting historical performance to providing forward-looking, predictive, and actionable insights.
  • Advance the use of enterprise modeling, scenario analysis, simulation, and advanced analytics to improve business decisions.
  • Develop scalable tools and analytical products for business leaders to better understand performance drivers, tradeoffs, and potential outcomes.
  • Work with FP&A and business Finance leaders to improve the speed and quality of enterprise decision support.
  • Identify opportunities to make financial insights increasingly self-service and technology-enabled.
• Modernize Finance Transactions & Operations
  • Identify opportunities to automate and simplify high-volume, repetitive, and transactional Finance activities.
  • Redesign Finance workflows around automation and AI-enabled execution.
  • Reduce manual reconciliations, reporting, data manipulation, and other low-value activities.
  • Partner with Finance functional leaders to improve scalability while maintaining strong financial controls.
  • Establish mechanisms for continuously maintaining and improving automated Finance processes.
• Build Finance Engineering Capability
  • Define the capabilities Finance will need across technology, data, AI, automation, and process engineering.
  • Partner with IT, Data, and AI organizations to build and maintain Finance technology capabilities.
  • Evaluate where Finance should develop dedicated expertise in AI agents, workflow engineering, data engineering, modeling, and finance technology.
  • Promote a tools-first approach to deliver services through scalable technology rather than manual processes.
  • Help establish ownership models to ensure Finance tools and capabilities continue evolving after initial implementation.
• Lead Enterprise Strategy & Transformation
  • Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CFO on enterprise performance, transformation, and major business decisions.
  • Translate company strategy into Finance capabilities, priorities, and transformation initiatives.
  • Lead or support high-priority cross-functional initiatives requiring financial, strategic, and transformation leadership.
  • Establish disciplined governance, prioritization, and accountability for major Finance transformation initiatives.
  • Help Finance play a broader role in improving the quality and speed of enterprise decision-making.
• Shape the Finance Workforce of the Future
  • Assess how Finance roles and capabilities will need to evolve as automation and AI change the nature of Finance work.
  • Increase emphasis on finance professionals with deep financial, analytical, technology, and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Help create a flatter, more agile organization that can rapidly assemble expertise around complex business problems.
  • Develop new career experiences and capabilities to prepare Finance talent for increasingly technology-enabled work.
  • Partner with Finance leadership and HR to build the talent strategy required to support the future Finance organization.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience within large, complex global organizations.
• Significant experience in FP&A, controllership, business finance, finance transformation, or similarly broad finance leadership roles.
• Strong financial judgment and credibility with CFOs, CEOs, and senior operating executives.
• Solid understanding of balancing business needs and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated success leading significant transformation across Finance or other complex enterprise functions.
• Deep understanding of how AI, automation, data, and emerging technologies can reshape Finance work and operating models.
• Ability to translate technology opportunities into measurable financial and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence without relying on a large direct organization.
• Strong understanding of public-company financial requirements, controls, and operating disciplines.
• Ability to move fluidly between enterprise strategy, organizational design, and hands-on execution.
• Exceptional analytical, communication, and change leadership capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, CPA, or other relevant advanced qualification preferred.

The Profile We Are Looking For

The ideal candidate is:

• A future CFO-caliber executive with the judgment and leadership potential to operate across the entire CFO agenda.
• AI-native and technology fluent, with a practical understanding of how emerging technology can fundamentally reshape Finance.
• A builder, comfortable creating capabilities and driving results without initially having a large team.
• A transformation leader, willing to challenge longstanding assumptions about how Finance should operate.
• A strong strategic thinker, able to connect financial insights with business strategy and enterprise decision-making.
• A hands-on executive, willing to personally examine processes, data, and technology rather than delegating transformation.
• An influential and collaborative change leader, capable of creating alignment across senior leaders and functions without direct authority.
• Commercially minded, with a strong understanding of how Finance enables growth, productivity, investment decisions, and competitive advantage.
• Data-driven and intellectually curious, using evidence to challenge assumptions and continuously explore better ways of working.
• Enterprise-oriented, focused on improving outcomes for the company rather than protecting traditional functional boundaries.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Vacation and sick time.
• Comprehensive leave program.
• Eligibility to participate in the Fortinet equity program.
• Bonus eligibility reviewed at time of hire and annually at the Company’s discretion.

Pay

Earnings for this position are expected to be $350,000 - $450,000. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate's subject knowledge, skill level, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

About Us

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. The Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.