Program Financial Controller

Location: Hybrid (3 days onsite a week in Minneapolis MN)
Employment Type: Full-Time

Are you a finance professional who thrives in complex transformation environments? Trissential is hiring a Program Financial Controller to join our client's team and play a critical role in shaping the financial governance of a large-scale, multi-year transformation portfolio. This is a highly visible opportunity where you'll influence investment decisions, drive financial discipline, and provide leadership with the insights needed to successfully deliver strategic initiatives.

What's in It for You?

• Strategic Impact – Partner with executive stakeholders and influence funding, investment, and program decisions across a major transformation portfolio.
• High-Visibility Role – Serve as the financial authority supporting transformational initiatives with enterprise-wide visibility.
• Leadership Opportunity – Lead and mentor financial analysts while establishing best practices and governance standards.
• Complex, Meaningful Work – Drive budgeting, forecasting, change control, and financial governance across multiple work streams and vendors.
• Professional Growth – Expand your expertise within transformational programs, ERP initiatives, portfolio financial management, and executive reporting.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain financial governance frameworks, internal controls, and compliance standards across all program work streams.
• Build, manage, and continuously refine integrated portfolio budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Monitor financial performance and provide actionable insights on risks, opportunities, and key cost drivers.
• Establish and maintain program financial baselines while managing funding approvals and change control processes.
• Lead month-end financial activities, reconciliations, reporting cycles, and audit readiness efforts.
• Deliver executive-level financial reporting, including budget versus actuals, run-rate analysis, contingency management, and benefits realization tracking.
• Conduct scenario planning and sensitivity analyses to support strategic decision-making around scope, timing, staffing, and sourcing.
• Manage vendor and contract financial performance in partnership with Procurement and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with Corporate Finance and Controllership teams on accounting treatment, capitalization decisions, and financial reporting standards.
• Coach and mentor a team of financial analysts while ensuring consistency and quality across deliverables.

Skills & Experience You Should Possess

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
• 5-7+ years of finance experience, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, and change control.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale transformation programs, PMOs, TPMOs, or enterprise initiatives.
• Strong expertise establishing financial governance, controls, and reporting processes across multiple work streams.
• Experience managing portfolio budgets, forecasts, and investment tracking.
• Knowledge of ERP-led transformation programs and multi-vendor delivery environments.
• Experience supporting month-end close processes and maintaining audit-ready documentation.
• Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, and influencing skills.
• Prior experience leading, mentoring, or coaching analysts and finance team members.
• Advanced proficiency with financial analysis, reporting tools, spreadsheets, and enterprise financial systems.

Bonus Points If You Have

• CPA, CMA, MBA, or equivalent advanced credential.
• Experience with in regulated industries or asset-intensive organizations.
• Expertise in benefits realization tracking and value realization reporting.
• Prior experience supporting…