Finance Transformation Governance, Managing Director

Who we are looking forThe Managing Director, Finance Transformation Governance will lead the governance, risk, and control strategy supporting Finance's transformation agenda. This executive will be responsible for ensuring that business process redesign, automation, technology implementations, data initiatives, and operating model changes are executed within a robust governance and control framework.

As a strategic leader within Finance, the Managing Director will establish and oversee a comprehensive framework to assess the impact of transformation initiatives on Finance processes, risks, controls, regulatory obligations, and policy compliance. The role will serve as a key partner to Finance Transformation, Controllership, Regulatory Reporting, Finance Business Risk Management (BRM), Technology, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk teams to ensure that transformation efforts strengthen operational effectiveness while maintaining a sound control environment.

The successful candidate will drive the integration of risk and control considerations into transformation design, promote the adoption of automated and preventive controls, and ensure that Finance remains aligned with enterprise policies, governance standards, and regulatory expectations throughout periods of change.

What you will be responsible for Establish and Lead the Finance Transformation Governance Framework Design and implement the governance framework supporting Finance transformation initiatives across the organization.

Establish standards, methodologies, and decision-making processes to evaluate transformation activities from a governance, risk, and control perspective.

Develop executive reporting, metrics, and governance forums to provide transparency into transformation program risks, dependencies, control impacts, and remediation activities.

Advise senior Finance leadership on governance implications associated with strategic investments, organizational redesign, automation initiatives, and technology implementations.

Serve as the primary Finance governance leader overseeing the intersection of transformation execution, risk management, and internal controls.

Assess Transformation Impacts on Finance Processes and Controls Establish a consistent framework to identify and assess the impact of transformation initiatives on end-to-end Finance processes, key controls, regulatory reporting obligations, and financial risk management activities.

Ensure that process, control, data, and technology impacts are evaluated before significant transformation initiatives are approved and implemented.

Lead reviews of future-state operating models to identify emerging risks, control gaps, segregation of duty concerns, and compliance considerations.

Oversee process inventories and process mapping efforts to maintain an accurate understanding of how transformation activities affect the Finance control environment.

Provide effective challenge and independent review of transformation programs to ensure risks are identified and appropriately mitigated.

Drive Control Design for Automated and Digital Processes Lead the development of Finance's strategy for embedding automated, preventive, and technology-enabled controls within transformed business processes.

Partner with Finance Transformation, Technology, and BRM teams to design controls that support new digital workflows, automation tools, AI-enabled solutions, and system implementations.

Develop standards and guidance for control rationalization, control automation, and control modernization initiatives.

Ensure newly designed controls are sustainable, auditable, scalable, and compliant with regulatory and enterprise requirements.

Promote reduction of manual controls through implementation of automated…