Finance Transformation Change Lead

The Vice President, Finance Strategy & Execution, is a leadership role responsible for defining, shaping, and executing the future-state Finance operating model. Positioned outside of regular Finance production work, this role is focused on change, and how Finance evolves as a functional and strategic partner to support the wider Finance organization.

The VP will serve as a finance transformation change leader, agent, strategist, and architect, working closely with Finance, Technology, Operations, and enterprise strategy teams. The role integrates strategic vision with pragmatic execution, helping to ensure Finance evolves towards its strategic Target Operating Model (TOM) while maintaining strong control, integrity, and flexibility.

• Shape and engineer the future of Finance, defining the enterprise-wide operating model
• Drive the design of the strategic vision and realization of complex Finance transformation initiatives, with clear accountability for outcomes and value realization
• Translate enterprise and Finance strategy into clear, multi-year transformation agendas
• Act as a thought partner to Financial Controllers, Accounts Payable, and FP&A teams in a complex and continuously evolving environment
• Demonstrate ability to apply fit-for-purpose methods aligned to initiative complexity and risk
• Actively manage risks, issues, and remediation actions across a portfolio of initiatives
• Strengthen organizational capability to sustain long-term transformation and innovation

• Contribute to the overall transformation architecture, ensuring coherence and compliance across the operating mode
• Define solution intent, design principles, and target-state outcomes while ensuring solutions remain executable
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical solutions
• Lead cross-functional working sessions focused on future-state design, decision-making, and adoption
• Drive integration and simplification across core Finance platforms (e.g., G/L, sub-ledgers, consolidation, planning, reconciliation) to reduce complexity and manual intervention
• Ensure solutions are designed for scale, adaptability, and long-term sustainability
• Serve as a trusted advisor for Finance leadership and partner for Technology, articulating the strategic rationale, design choices, and trade-offs underlying transformation decision

• Integrate the AI-enabled Finance vision, embedding advanced analytics and intelligent capabilities into the operating model
• Identify and scale high-impact use cases for AI, including predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, and intelligent reconciliation
• Shape the data architecture required to enable enterprise-grade analytics and decision intelligence
• Shift Finance from a reactive mindset to forward-looking, insight-driven, and performance-focused organization
• Reimagine Finance processes through an automation-first lens, eliminating manual effort and redesigning workflows
• Embed AI fluency and digital capability into Finance ways of working and talent model
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies to sustain competitive advantage

• 10+ years of experience across Financial Accounting, Finance Transformation / Strategy, or similar advisory roles within complex financial institutions
• Deep knowledge across Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, FP&A
• Proven experience designing and leading large-scale Finance transformations, not simply managing delivery
• Demonstrated ability to operate credibly at both high-level strategic and detailed architecture levels
• Exceptional analytical, communication, and influencing capabilities

• CPA, CFA, or equivalent professional certification
• Experience with major Finance platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, One Stream)
• Practical experience leveraging automation, solutioning and AI within Finance or adjacent functions
• Experience operating within Agile or hybrid delivery environments

• Strategic and architectural leadership that defines direction and guides execution
• Analytical and insight-led thinking and leadership
• Change leadership and influence at all levels of organization
• Ability to interact with Technology fluently
• Clear, confident communication to various stakeholders and levels of organization

• Measures progression towards adoption of future-state Finance operating model
• Adoption, value realization, and business impact of Finance Transformation initiatives
• Sustained reduction in manual effort through automation and AI-enabled capabilities and utilization
• Strong stakeholder feedback and engagement
• Strength of the Finance transformation leadership pipeline