Senior Director, Finance Transformation

Overview

This role is responsible for leading finance transformation across the organization. You will serve as the product leader for Finance—deciding what to build, buy, or automate—and lead a team delivering transformation outcomes. Reporting to the SVP Finance, you will set the multi-year roadmap and personally drive the highest-impact initiatives.

This is a hands-on leadership role with enterprise-wide scope, including ownership of SOX compliance and auditability throughout transformation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Define the future Finance operating model
  • Evaluate, evolve, and own a multi-year transformation roadmap leveraging technology to strengthen processes, systems, data, and governance
  • Set and track 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 use cases 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 across end-to-end processes, including FP&A, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Quote-to-Cash (Q2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), Treasury, Tax, and Internal Audit
  • Keep controls strong and scalable across financial systems
• Deliver forward-looking, self-serve insight
  • Increase production of forward-looking, predictive, and actionable insights
  • Develop scalable tools and analytical products to help business leaders understand performance drivers, tradeoffs, and potential outcomes
  • Improve the speed and quality of enterprise decision support
  • Identify opportunities to make financial insights increasingly self-service and technology enabled
• Drive cross-functional delivery
  • Establish 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 Finance talent for increasingly technology-enabled work
  • Partner with Finance leadership on talent strategy for the future Finance organization

Requirements

• Proven 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 the judgment to translate them into business results, supported by appropriate controls
• Technical depth to engage with Machine Learning and Analytics Engineers on what they are building and how
• Strong working knowledge of SOX, internal controls, and public-company reporting processes
  • Experience at a public company is not required, but strong working knowledge is expected
• Proven ability to lead through influence across Finance, Engineering, and Data
• Strong analytical skills, executive communication, and change leadership
• Ability to move between strategy and hands-on execution
• Bachelor’s degree required

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA and/or CPA

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual cash compensation range: $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 be eligible to participate in an equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Some roles may be eligible for overtime pay
• Compensation packages are tailored to skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors
• Benefits and perks are provided as part of the total compensation package

Location

This role may be available for remote employees or office-based employees.

• Remote employees may be eligible for remote work
• If joining as an Engineering team employee, in-person onboarding at a regional office is required
• If joining a broader Product team, in-person events may include a Product Group Summit and other gatherings

Equal Opportunity / Compliance Notes

• Massachusetts applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
• Germany applicants: (m/f/d)
• Hiring decisions are made by humans.
• The employer may use AI to help screen or assess candidates.