VP, Finance Excellence and Transformation

VP, Finance Excellence and Transformation

Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative technology solutions, trusted by the United States and its allies to address their most significant and complex challenges in science, security and sustainability. Our people apply undaunted curiosity, relentless ambition and boundless imagination to challenge convention and drive progress. Our commitment s are underpinned by the belief that safety, collaboration and well-being are integral to success.

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, we have approximately 50,000 employees in more than 70 countries across all 7 continents.

Amentum is seeking an experienced and strategic Vice President of Finance Excellence and Transformation to lead a technology centric enterprise-wide Finance transformation. Following a period of rapid growth through multiple acquisitions and integrations this position will play a critical role in unifying our finance landscape and creating a scalable, integrated future-state operating model that supports Amentum’s long-term profitable growth objectives.

Partnering with the entire CFO leadership team and key stakeholders across other enterprise functions and operations, a primary objective of this role is to design and deliver a multi-year transformation roadmap that leverages technology to strengthen our processes, systems, data, and governance.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Enterprise Finance, this position is part of Amentum’s Finance organization.
We prefer a candidate local to Reston, VA but we will consider remote-telework candidates. US Citizenship is required.

• Developing the Transformation Vision:
  Collaborate with CFO leadership team to create a compelling, well-defined finance transformation vision that aligns with the broader organizational strategy and identifies opportunities for value creation.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Establish a stakeholder management strategy to secure buy-in and support from key stakeholders. This includes engaging with business leaders early in the process to foster collaboration and address concerns.
• Change Management:
  Partner closely with Finance, Contracts, IT, HR, and Operations leaders on effective change management while harmonizing processes and ensuring alignment and adoption of new tools and standards.
• Assess current-state processes, systems, legacy platforms, and organizational structures to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and integration challenges related to our M&A-driven growth.
• Lead the end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution of an enterprise-wide finance transformation program.
• Coordinate and oversee day-to-day activities across project phases, including scope definition, dependency management, resource allocation, and milestone tracking.
• Drive continuous improvement and modernization initiatives including financial system automation, data governance, and reporting enhancements.
• Set and track key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure the success of transformation initiatives. Regularly review KPI’s with leadership to communicate program updates, risks, mitigation plans and need to adapt strategies if applicable.
• Manage diverse stakeholder groups to drive initiatives impacting a variety of end-to-end processes including, but not limited to, Hire-to-Retire (H2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), and Record-to-Report (R2R).
• Oversee cross-functional project teams, external consultants, and technology vendors.

• Data-driven and continuous learning mindset — Candidates should demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and the ability to learn new technologies quickly, including leveraging AI to automate repetitive tasks, synthesize information, improve communication, and accelerate problem solving while maintaining human judgment and accountability.
• Ability to evaluate and apply emerging technologies — Candidates should be comfortable assessing new AI-enabled tools and processes, identifying practical use cases, validating outputs, understanding limitations/risk, and incorporating AI responsibly into day-to-day work.
• Demonstrated AI fluency and workflow…