Executive Director, IT Finance Lead

Job Description

The Executive Director, IT Finance Lead is a senior IT leadership role responsible for shaping and delivering the global technology strategy for Finance. This leader will serve as a trusted partner to Finance business stakeholders and provide functional and technical leadership across a portfolio of financial systems and solutions supporting enterprise-wide financial processes. The individual is a proactive technology thought leader, strategist, and delivery orchestrator.

This role will be critical to driving the AI transformation of the Finance function, working collaboratively with Finance functional leaders to identify and prioritize high-value opportunities, reimagine business processes, and responsibly scale AI, data, and automation capabilities. The leader will help translate Finance priorities into an integrated technology roadmap that improves decision-making, productivity, business performance, control, and operational efficiency.

The role oversees a team of IT professionals with expertise in financial applications and solutions. The Executive Director will partner closely with business and IT leaders to define roadmaps, modernize the technology landscape, and deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions.

The scope includes global ownership of financial systems and solutions supporting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Tax, Treasury, Account-to-Report and Controller, and Order-to-Cash. The leader will ensure these systems are compliant, secure, modernized, and aligned with enterprise controls and SOX requirements, while advancing innovation through AI, automation, and integrated solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

• 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.

Solution Ownership and Delivery

• 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.

Finance Domain Scope

• Oversee technology solutions such as SAP FICO, HANA Sidecar, OneSource 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

Innovation, AI, and Automation

• 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.

Governance, Controls, and Compliance

• Ensure financial systems and processes align with internal controls, audit expectations, and SOX requirements.

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