Director of Finance Transformations

Location

London

Full time

Finance

About Us

Perk (formerly Travel Perk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

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The Role

The Director of Finance Transformation is responsible for leading and managing large-scale transformation initiatives within the finance and accounting organization. You will be responsible for developing and implementing innovative technology solutions that optimize our processes and systems. This role involves developing and implementing strategies to improve processes, enhance operational efficiency, and drive organizational change.

As the Director of Finance Transformation, you will work closely with senior finance leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners to ensure the successful execution of transformation projects.

What will you be doing?

• Collaborate with senior finance leadership to define transformation goals and objectives

• Lead and manage transformation projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget

• Conduct stakeholder interviews, working independently to fully understand current processes and identify opportunities for improvement, such as streamlining, elimination, standardization, and automation

• Identify opportunities for improvement (Current State Assessment/Gap Analysis) and innovation across the finance organization

• Collaborate closely with IT, product management, engineering/data teams, and stakeholders to define future state system architecture and technical roadmaps

• Evaluate existing systems and propose enhancements to improve efficiency, scalability, and user experience

• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and advancements in finance technology, and make recommendations for potential implementation at Perk

• Maintain project cadence by delivering project plans, analysis, deliverables, trackers, and other key project documents, or by overseeing analysts or partnering with other key stakeholders in the delivery of these resources

• Develop and manage budgets for finance technology initiatives, ensuring cost-effectiveness and ROI

• Develop and implement change management strategies to ensure smooth adoption of new processes and technologies, whilst maintaining compliance with control requirements and ultimately SOX

• Design/facilitate training sessions (where necessary) to employees to understand, and adapt to process improvement changes

• Establish OKRs, key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the success of transformation initiatives

What will you need to succeed?

• Demonstrated experience and previous success leading transformative organizational work.

• Proven ability to work with diverse stakeholders, manage competing agendas and priorities, and translate complex information across functions.

• Strong operational capability, with the ability to oversee the process to deliver projects, timelines and budgets, effective…