Finance Portfolio Leader, Enterprise Services

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with entrepreneurial, action- and results-oriented professionals. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and helping them reach their potential. A&M is different by design: we give people ownership and impact from day one, fuel development through real opportunity, and provide direct access to leaders who invest in our growth.

Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact clients and shape our industry. Guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity, our collaborative, globally minded environment is why our people love working at A&M.

Enterprise Application Services (EAS) is the foundation for A&M's AI-first future, accelerating cash collection, scaling growth, elevating user experience, and protecting the firm with referenceable digital services. EAS includes Financial Tech, People Tech, Marketing Tech, Legal Tech, Risk & Compliance Tech, and more. We are a global organization with a presence in the US, the UK, and India.

The Finance Portfolio Leader is accountable for the strategy, delivery, and run of A&M's finance technology portfolio, anchored by SAP S/4

HANA Public Cloud. As the senior technology counterpart to the CFO, Controller, and Finance leadership, this role ensures Finance runs on reliable, well-integrated, scalable platforms.

The Finance Portfolio Leader will lead a process-aligned organization in which Product Owners are paired with Finance Process Owners across Pursuit-to-Contract, Contract-to-Cash, Source-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, and Plan-to-Analyze, and Technical Owners own build and run. This leader will take the portfolio from program-led implementation to a stable, owned run organization that can be referenced externally as a model for clients. The ideal candidate combines SAP and finance process expertise with vendor governance discipline, the ability to lead teams across time zones, and executive presence with senior finance leaders.

• Develop and own the Finance Technology strategy and roadmap with Finance leadership, aligned with EAS and firm priorities.
• Lead and develop the Finance Technology team:
  Product Owners in the US and UK and Technical Owners and delivery teams in India (employees and contractors).
• Partner with Finance Process Owners to turn business priorities into a managed backlog, business cases, and release plan. Establish and chair periodic priority-setting sessions with Finance leadership.
• Set and enforce architecture standards (clean core and configure-not-customize by default), governing any extensions through defined design authority.
• Represent Finance Technology in EAS leadership and with peer pillars (CIO, CSO, Chief AI Officer) and the CPMO.
• Build and measure an AI-assisted delivery model across in-house and partner work.

• Own the Finance application portfolio, including:
• Core Finance (SAP S/4
  
  HANA Public Cloud): general ledger, intercompany, consolidation, banking and payments, reconciliations
• Statutory and localization, including e-invoicing mandates across 30+ jurisdictions
• Expense and time platforms (Concur, Replicon)
• Procurement platform (Ariba), as scope is confirmed
• Planning and reporting (SAP Analytics Cloud) and Translation Engine
• Additional platforms as required
• Own integration design between Finance platforms and enterprise systems, including Workday, Salesforce, the enterprise data warehouse, and firm billing and time systems.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and IT on hosting, integration platform, identity, and end-user…