Senior Director, Finance Transformation

Overview

The organization is seeking a finance transformation leader to shape the future of the Finance organization. This role serves as the product leader for Finance, owning what the team builds, buys, or automates, and leading delivery of enterprise initiatives. Reporting to the SVP Finance, you will transform how Finance operates through AI, automation, advanced analytics, technology enablement, process redesign, and new organizational models.

This is a hands-on leadership role with enterprise-wide scope. You will lead a well-established ~20-person team across analytics engineering, ML engineering, program management, and finance systems support, and partner closely with core systems owners across the organization. SOX compliance and auditability are essential throughout delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define the future Finance operating model
  • Evaluate, evolve, and own a multi-year transformation roadmap that leverages technology to strengthen processes, systems, data, and governance.
  • Set and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure transformation success (e.g., productivity, close speed, forecast accuracy, insight quality).
• Build an AI-native Finance function
  • Identify and scale high-value AI and automation applications across Finance.
  • Redesign workflows end to end rather than automating broken processes.
  • Determine where work belongs with people, AI, or automation, and establish governance and human accountability for AI-enabled processes.
• Modernize transactions and workflows
  • Identify opportunities to simplify and automate high-volume, repetitive, and transactional Finance activities impacting FP&A, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Quote-to-Cash (Q2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), Treasury, Tax, and Internal Audit.
  • Maintain strong, scalable controls across financial systems.
• Make insight forward-looking and self-serve
  • Increase production of forward-looking, predictive, and actionable insights.
  • Develop scalable tools and analytical products enabling business leaders to understand performance drivers, tradeoffs, and potential outcomes.
  • Improve the speed and quality of enterprise decision support.
  • Expand self-service and technology-enabled financial insights.
• Drive cross-functional delivery
  • Set prioritization, governance, and accountability for major initiatives.
  • Build alignment across Finance, Engineering, FinTech, Operations, Internal Audit, and the business without relying on direct authority.
  • Oversee cross-functional project teams, external consultants, and technology vendors.
• Shape the Finance workforce of the future
  • Assess how Finance roles and capabilities must evolve as automation and AI change the nature of work.
  • Develop new career experiences and capabilities to prepare talent for increasingly technology-enabled work.
  • Partner with Finance leadership to build the talent strategy for the future Finance organization.

Requirements

• Track record leading finance transformation in a scaled technology company, including ERP/system change, process redesign, automation, and data modernization.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI and automation solutions in Finance.
• Practical fluency in AI, automation, and data, with judgment to turn them into business results, including appropriate controls.
• Technical depth to engage with Machine Learning and Analytics Engineers on what they’re building and how.
• Strong working knowledge of SOX, internal controls, and public-company reporting.
  • Experience at a public company is not required, but strong working knowledge of SOX, internal controls, and public-company reporting processes is expected.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across Finance, Engineering, and Data.
• Strong analytical skills, executive communication skills, and change-leadership experience.
• Comfort moving between strategy and hands-on execution.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA and/or CPA preferred.

Preferred Qualifications (Ideal Candidate)

• A transformation leader willing to challenge longstanding assumptions about how Finance should operate.
• A strategic thinker who connects financial insights to business strategy and enterprise decision-making.
• AI-forward and technology fluent, with a practical understanding of how emerging technology can reshape Finance.
• A hands-on executive who personally examines processes, data, and technology rather than delegating transformation.
• An influential, collaborative change leader capable of creating alignment across senior leaders and functions without direct authority.
• Data-driven and intellectually curious, using evidence to challenge assumptions and continuously improve how work gets done.
• Enterprise-oriented, focused on improving outcomes rather than protecting traditional functional boundaries.

Compensation & Benefits

The annual cash compensation range is $245,200—$392,300 USD.

Cash compensation may include base salary, on-target commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under the bonus plan for eligible roles. Some roles may also be eligible to participate in the equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay.

Individual compensation packages are tailored based on skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

Location

Remote-eligible with flexibility to work from the office.

• If joining the Engineering team: you will be required to attend a regional office for in-person onboarding.
• If joining the broader Product team: you will also attend other in-person events, such as your Product Group Summit and other gatherings.

If you require an accommodation due to travel limitations or other reasons, inform your recruiter during the hiring process.

Additional Notes

• Massachusetts Applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.