AI Transformation Director, Finance

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The AI Transformation Director owns AI transformation for Finance. Sitting within the AI Transformation Office and partnering directly with the department’s executive leadership, this person determines where AI can create the greatest value and leads initiatives from concept through sustained adoption. The role partners across Finance to identify high-value opportunities in planning, forecasting, accounting, reporting, and analysis. It combines a strong understanding of Finance processes with the ability to apply AI, automation, and technology to simplify work, improve data quality and accessibility, and increase the function’s capacity for decision support.

They define the portfolio, build solutions, assemble working teams within the department, and drive execution. The mandate is department-wide transformation, not isolated tools, individual productivity gains, or passive intake of ideas. The AI Transformation Director also helps shape company-wide standards for how AI is applied and governed, informed by what works across departments. This is a full-time individual contributor role reporting to the Chief of Staff, AI Transformation.

The role will be hybrid, based or in New York City.

• Own and continuously refine an AI transformation roadmap aligned with the finance organizations strategy and business goals.
• Develop a deep understanding of the department’s operations, workflows, and constraints by working directly with business leaders, process owners, subject-matter experts, and end users to identify high-value AI opportunities and size their potential impact.
• Map the stakeholders and cross-functional touchpoints required for each initiative, assemble the right working team, define decision rights and responsibilities, and drive execution across contributors.
• Lead priority initiatives from problem definition through build, pilot, rollout, adoption, and measurement.
• Ensure solutions support strong financial controls, data integrity, documentation, and auditability, with appropriate human review and monitoring.
• Build and configure AI-enabled solutions hands-on, particularly during prototyping and early implementation.
• Assemble the right working team for each initiative, define responsibilities, establish accountability, and drive execution across contributors.
• Determine the technology, process changes, operating model, and resources required to deliver and sustain each initiative.
• Establish standards for how AI is applied within the department, including how solutions are evaluated for accuracy, risk, and return on investment.
• Define success measures, track realized value, and stop, redesign, or redirect initiatives that do not meet expectations.
• Communicate results and tradeoffs to Finance leaders, including progress…