Principal Program Manager, Finance Digital Enablement

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Finance Digital Enablement exists to reimagine how Finance operates by combining process excellence, digital technologies, AI, automation, and data to build a simpler, smarter, and more scalable Finance organization.

Working in close partnership with Finance, IT, and business leaders, we drive the strategy, governance, and transformation of Finance’s core business processes and technology capabilities. We identify opportunities to modernize how Finance works, accelerate the responsible adoption of AI and intelligent automation, and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value.

The Transformation Delivery & Enablement team serves as the delivery engine for Finance Digital Enablement, ensuring strategic initiatives are executed effectively, adopted successfully, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

The Principal Program Manager, Finance Digital Enablement is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading complex, enterprise-scale transformation programs across UKG’s Finance organization.

Reporting to the Director, Transformation Delivery & Enablement, this role drives strategic initiatives from planning through deployment, stabilization, and value realization. You will partner closely with Business Owners, Global Process Owners, IT Product Owners, and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, manage interdependencies, mitigate risks, and ensure successful execution.

This role goes beyond traditional project management. As a trusted transformation leader, you will bring structure to ambiguity, connect business and technology teams, facilitate critical decisions, and keep programs focused on delivering meaningful business outcomes.

You will lead some of Finance Digital Enablement’s most strategic initiatives, including Finance transformation, enterprise technology implementations, AI and automation programs, operating model changes, and cross-functional business initiatives.

• Lead large-scale Finance transformation programs with significant business impact and organizational visibility.
• Define program objectives, scope, governance structures, milestones, resource requirements, and success measures.
• Maintain an integrated view across business processes, technology, data, controls, organizational readiness, and operational impacts.
• Drive execution from mobilization through implementation, stabilization, and transition to operational ownership.

• Convert strategic objectives and transformation roadmaps into actionable delivery plans.
• Partner with Finance leaders, Global Process Owners, and technology teams to define sequencing, dependencies, implementation approaches, and success criteria.
• Bring clarity and structure to complex initiatives while adapting to changing priorities and business needs.

• Align stakeholders across Finance, IT, Procurement, Sales, Treasury, Human Resources, Internal Audit, and external partners.
• Coordinate business and technical work streams to ensure successful delivery across…