Global Director - Finance

Your Impact

As the Global Director of Finance Operations, Accounting & Payroll you will serve as the senior leader responsible for the firm's global Accounting and Payroll service operations, overseeing a ~400 FTE organization primarily out of our India shared services center.

Your role combines enterprise stewardship with strategic leadership driving continuous improvement, evolving talent and capabilities, strengthening risk and control environments, and tech-enabling our Finance Operations operating model to support the firm's growth and increasing complexity.

Collaborating closely across Finance (e.g. Controllership, Tax, Regional and Cell Finance, etc) and with key firm functions, including HR, Procurement, and Compliance, to ensure strong integration and effective end-to-end delivery, you will be a primary interface to senior stakeholders, providing clear executive communication on performance, risks, and priorities, and acting as a trusted thought partner on operational strategy and transformation.

Operating in a highly complex, global environment, you will focus on elevating service performance through simplification, standardization, and automation; working in close collaboration with Controllership to evolve SOX-like risk and control standards; and building a strong, future-ready leadership bench across Accounting and Payroll.

Day to day you will provide enterprise leadership and strategic direction for our firm's global Accounting and Payroll service lines, ensuring high-quality delivery s includes general accounting, payroll, expense reimbursement, accounts payable as well as other cross functional capabilities (e.g. audit, QA, data quality, etc). You ll serve as a senior interface to firm and functional leadership, managing complex stakeholder relationships and driving alignment on priorities, risks, and investments.

You'll lead and develop the Accounting and Payroll service-line leaders, shaping a strong leadership bench, evolving capabilities, and building a future-ready talent model, whilst driving a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence, advancing simplification, standardization, automation, and selective digital enablement.

You'll collaborate closely with Controllership to shape and strengthen SOX-like risk, control, and governance standards, including audit readiness and control evolution, and oversee operational reporting and analytics across core finance systems, enabling insight-driven performance management and risk oversight.

You'll oversee enterprise performance management for Finance Operations, ensuring clear metrics, transparency, and fact-based decision support, craft and deliver clear executive-level communications on service performance, transformation progress, risks, and trade-offs and also partner across Finance and firm functions to ensure effective integration and end-to-end process integrity.

You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm…