Executive Director, IT Finance Lead

• Serve as a trusted strategic partner to Finance functional leaders, translating Finance priorities into an integrated technology, data, AI, and automation strategy.
• Lead the AI transformation of the Finance function, partnering with functional leaders to identify high-value opportunities, reimagine end-to-end processes, and responsibly scale AI-enabled capabilities.
• Shape and maintain the global Finance technology roadmap, balancing business transformation, modernization, operational resilience, compliance, and technical sustainability.
• Establish a value-led approach for prioritizing Finance technology and AI investments, with clear business outcomes, adoption measures, and accountability for value realization.
• Influence the future Finance operating model by bringing external insights, emerging technology perspectives, and innovative solutions to Finance leadership.
• Build strong alignment across Finance, IT, Data, AI, Risk, and other enterprise stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions and avoid fragmented technology investments.
• Provide strategic leadership across the Finance technology portfolio, ensuring priorities remain aligned with enterprise strategy, financial controls, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop organizational capabilities and talent needed to support the evolving Finance technology landscape, including AI, data, automation, digital products, and modern financial platforms.

• Serve as the system/product owner for financial applications within the area of responsibility.
• Ensure applications and platforms remain compliant, secure, modernized, and supported through effective lifecycle management.
• Lead the delivery of IT solutions for Finance from concept through implementation and support.
• Translate business requirements into robust digital solutions and ensure technical teams are aligned to desired functional outcomes.
• Partner with other IT leaders to ensure end-to-end, integrated enterprise solutions across business functions.
• Promote strong operational discipline, documentation, and supportability across all delivered solutions.
• Own the Finance products through its entire lifecycle; sets the product vision, roadmaps, and strategy, ensuring value and user experience are measured and achieved.

• Oversee technology solutions such as SAP FICO, HANA Sidecar, One Source tax engine, Wall Street Suite for Treasury, SAP BDC Seamless Planning and others supporting:
  • Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
  • Tax
  • Treasury
  • Account to Report (including Close & Controls management)
  • Product costing
  • Order-to-Cash

• Identify and deliver opportunities for AI-enabled capabilities and automation across Finance processes.
• Drive continuous improvement and modernization of the financial application portfolio.
• Champion new technologies and solution patterns that increase efficiency, data quality, and decision making.
• Scans the market for technology solutions that could transform the Finance Digital landscape and experiment with select capabilities that show a lot of promise.

• Ensure financial systems and processes align with internal controls, audit expectations, and SOX requirements.
• Partner with compliance, risk, security, and enterprise architecture teams to maintain a strong controls environment.
• Ensure appropriate governance is in place for system changes, access, support, and lifecycle management.

• Provide both functional and technical leadership to a team of IT professionals supporting financial solutions and applications.
• Manage, mentor, and develop other senior IT leaders and their teams.
• Build a strong leadership bench and support talent development, succession planning, and organizational capability growth.
• Influence organizational design, resource planning, and capability development to meet current and future business needs.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Lead through change and ensure teams remain aligned, engaged, and effective during transformation initiatives.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering or related field.

• Proven track record of driving enterprise Finance transformation by applying AI, data, and automation to reimagine end-to-end processes and deliver measurable business value.
• 15+ years of…