Director, Finance – Digital & Capital Management

Role Overview

The Director, Finance – Digital & Capital Management serves as the finance leader and business partner to NAOU Digital & Data, supporting financial planning, performance, and investment decisions for digital and platform-enabled initiatives.

Operating within a transaction-intensive and evolving business environment, the role acts as a central coordinator across Global Digital Orchestration, Platform Services, and NAOU finance routines—balancing structured planning cycles with ad hoc, decision-driven deliverables.

In parallel, the role supports CAPEX planning, analysis, and performance tracking across the NAOU capital landscape in coordination with NAOU Capital Management leadership. CAPEX governance, prioritization, and allocation remain centrally led, with this role providing financial inputs, business case support, and performance insights.

The role operates across two core domains—Digital finance leadership and enterprise CAPEX support—balancing deep business partnership with broad investment visibility. Given the dynamic environment, the responsibilities of this role may evolve within the broader FPA&A and Investment Management scope.

• Serve as the primary finance lead and partner to Digital & Data leadership
  , supporting planning, prioritization, and performance
• Translate technical initiatives into financial impacts and tradeoffs
• Drive financial discipline across innovation and platform investments

• Support CAPEX planning, forecasting, and performance monitoring across NAOU in coordination with Capital Management
• Deliver monthly reporting, variance analysis, and spend tracking against approved CAPEX plans
• Coordinate CAPEX-related deliverables within RE, ABP, and LRP cycles, ensuring alignment with enterprise capital planning processes
• Partner across the network to inform capital prioritization and decision-making
• Support adherence to investment governance standards and business case frameworks

• Lead financial management routines for Digital, including P&L stewardship
  , performance analysis, and delivery against financial targets
• Support Annual Business Plan (ABP), Rolling Estimates (RE), and Long-Range Plan (LRP), ensuring alignment to strategic priorities
• Maintain disciplined FP&A processes, ensuring forecast accuracy, transparent performance tracking, and actionable variance insights

• Support evolution of business and operating models through value chain analyses, assessment of partnership structures, and evaluation of go-to-market and delivery scenarios
• Perform ROI, payback, and sensitivity analysis
• Support development of business cases and scenario modeling for investment decisions

• Collaborate across accounting and strategic finance to align transaction-heavy execution with broader finance processes
• Partner with DTS, Engineering, Procurement, and business teams
• Align financial inputs and support execution of investment decisions

• Act as a catalyst for advancing digital, data, and analytics capabilities across the North America finance community, in partnership with Global and Finance Transformation teams
• Support adoption of modern finance tools and analytics
• Improve insight generation and decision speed

• Deliver clear, concise insights to senior leaders
• Prepare executive-ready materials and recommendations
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to commercial, innovation, and technology leaders

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related field;
  MBA or advanced credentials in analytics, strategy, or digital transformation strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive financial leadership experience
  , ideally spanning innovation, product development, digital transformation, or technology-enabled organizations.
• Demonstrated expertise supporting innovation portfolios, digital platforms, and complex investment pipelines
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• Deep understanding of valuation and performance measurement for innovation
  , including…