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Senior Manager, F&S Transformation

Job in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, 53703, USA
Listing for: Zendesk
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-08
Job specializations:
  • Finance & Banking
    AI Business & Operations
  • Business
    Change Management, AI Business & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy (F&S) Transformation

The Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy (F&S) Transformation will lead the next phase of Finance & Strategy transformation, with a focus on building scalable, AI-enabled planning, forecasting, reporting, and process automation capabilities across the F&S organization.

This role will sit within Corporate Finance & Strategy and will own the business side of F&S planning systems (Adaptive Insights), while driving broader transformation initiatives that reduce manual work, improve process discipline, and enable more decision-ready insights. This is a senior individual contributor role with no formal direct reports.

The role will serve as the functional lead for the F&S Transformation portfolio, providing day-to-day direction and prioritization across transformation initiatives and matrixed resources. It will partner closely with Corporate F&S, functional F&S teams, IT, and the Finance-wide AI / Process Innovation team.

We are looking for a strong transformation builder with FP&A systems experience, project management discipline, stakeholder communication skills, and a bias toward automation and scalable process design.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own the F&S Transformation roadmap across planning systems, process improvement, automation, and F&S-specific AI use cases.
  • Lead the business ownership of Adaptive and related planning systems, including support model, enhancement roadmap, prioritization, stakeholder communication, and partnership with Finance Systems / IT.
  • Drive scalable process improvement across forecasting, reporting, planning workflows, variance analysis, and management reporting.
  • Identify and implement F&S-specific AI / automation opportunities that reduce manual work and improve decision-ready insights, in partnership with the Finance-wide AI / Process Innovation team.
  • Create operating discipline through intake, prioritization, documentation, testing, release management, and roadmap governance.
  • Provide functional leadership for the F&S Transformation team, including day-to-day direction, prioritization, and coaching.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Corporate F&S, functional F&S, IT, and other Finance stakeholders to align priorities, manage tradeoffs, and drive adoption.
  • Shift the team from reactive support to proactive transformation by reducing recurring issues through root-cause fixes, process redesign, automation, and self-service enablement.

Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience in FP&A, Finance & Strategy, Finance Transformation, Finance Systems, or a related role.
  • Strong understanding of forecasting, planning, management reporting, and core FP&A processes.
  • Experience applying AI, automation, BI, reporting tools, data models, or system integrations to improve finance processes, reporting, planning, or decision support.
  • Hands-on experience with financial planning systems such as Adaptive, Anaplan, Oracle EPM, Pigment, One Stream, Hyperion, or similar.
  • Proven ability to lead complex transformation or systems initiatives from strategy through execution, including roadmap management, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and change management in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Strong process improvement mindset, with experience simplifying, standardizing, and automating workflows.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate technical issues into business impact, risks, and decision tradeoffs.
  • Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives through influence
  • SaaS, subscription business, PE-backed, IPO readiness, or public-company readiness experience preferred.

Where We Work:

  • Hybrid:
    In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week.
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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