Program Manager, Finance Transformation

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Program Manager, Finance Transformation

Richmond, VA

As a member of the Project & Supplier Management Office, you will play a critical role in overseeing a portfolio of Finance Technology Transformation initiatives. This role is accountable for driving the delivery of complex, high-impact programs that modernize finance capabilities, strengthen controls, improve data and reporting, and enable scalable, efficient financial operations. This position does not have direct people management responsibilities;

success is driven through strong matrix leadership, influence, and partnership with Finance, IT, Risk, and other enterprise stakeholders. You will provide end-to-end portfolio discipline, ensuring work is well-defined, appropriately sequenced, and delivered with transparency, rigor, and predictable outcomes.

• Lead the Finance Technology Transformation portfolio, consisting of strategic, regulatory, and modernization initiatives aligned to enterprise and Finance priorities.
• Partner with Finance and IT leadership on prioritization and capacity alignment, ensuring initiatives are sequenced appropriately and dependencies, constraints, and risks are surfaced early.
• Facilitate business case development and funding readiness, including validation of assumptions, financial impact analysis, benefit realization, and alignment on scope, value, and outcomes.
• Manage intake, evaluation, and refinement of Finance initiatives, including system implementations, platform upgrades, data and reporting enhancements, automation, and control-related changes.
• Serve as a central coordination point with executive leadership, maintaining transparency of progress, risks, issues, dependencies, financials, and decisions required to keep work moving forward.
• Ensure consistent portfolio health reporting, consolidating inputs across project teams and translating them into actionable insights for Finance and enterprise stakeholders.
• Drive adherence to project and program management standards, including governance, stage gates, tools, and templates, while pragmatically tailoring approaches to the needs of Finance initiatives.
• Manage complex, cross-functional projects, ensuring clear scope, disciplined risk and dependency management, effective change control, and alignment across Finance, IT, vendors, and business partners.
• Develop and maintain integrated plans for multi-workstream programs, coordinating activities across finance processes, technology platforms, data, controls, regulatory considerations, and change readiness.
• Support operational and financial readiness for implementations, ensuring impacted teams are prepared through aligned training, communications, and cutover planning.
• Contribute to the ongoing maturation of Finance portfolio and governance structures, including intake, prioritization, escalation, and interaction models.
• Provide strong financial stewardship for the portfolio, including tracking actuals versus budget, forecasting, and supporting multi-year planning and investment decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of project or program management experience.
• Demonstrated success delivering large, cross-functional initiatives with significant technology and process transformation components.
• Strong ability to structure ambiguous work, clarify outcomes, mitigate risk, and drive momentum in complex environments.
• Proven capability to partner effectively with senior leaders and influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Experience supporting the development of transformation roadmaps and execution strategies.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and execution skills.
• Strong analytical and business problem-solving capabilities.
• Exceptional communication skills (oral, written, interpersonal, and presentation).
• Results-oriented mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).

• Experience leading Finance-focused technology transformations (e.g., ERP, general ledger, close and consolidation, planning, reporting, or data…