Director of Special Projects - Finance Finance

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #Make Your Moment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

About the role

This role sits in the Office of the CFO, and it is not a conventional finance role. Finance holds much of what IFS knows about itself: cost structure, unit economics, how the plan was built and where it has drifted. Most of the decisions that evidence should shape sit somewhere else, in Sales, Services, R&D and Operations. Connecting the two is the job.

You will lead a small number of substantial cross-functional projects each year and advise on several more. The work moves between transformation and analysis: redesigning how we plan and allocate, building the models and reporting leadership needs to see the business clearly, designing operating models and governance that hold up in practice, and working out where AI genuinely changes how finance and its partner functions work.

The portfolio changes with what the company needs. What stays constant is the shape of the problem. It crosses functions, nobody owns it yet, and the people involved do not start out

agreeing. A meaningful part of the work runs through external consulting partners, so you will be directing teams you do not employ about as often as teams you do.

Why this role?

Many roles at this level are either functional ownership or advice. This is neither. You take a problem from framing through analysis, decision and implementation, and you stay with it long enough to find out whether it worked.

You get direct access to the CFO and the executive team, a small team on your projects, and responsibility for outcomes rather than documents. IFS has grown quickly, organically and through acquisition, so there is real work to do on how the company plans, allocates and decides. This is not a tidy system to maintain.

• Lead initiatives end to end. Frame the problem, build the workplan, run the analysis, drive to a decision with senior stakeholders and stay through implementation. You will not hand over a deck and move on.
• Diagnose how the business actually runs. Through interviews,…