Director, Finance Operations

AAA-The Auto Club Group

76d • $150,000 - $200,000

About The Position

This position works to outline, prioritize, and deliver the future systems and operational needs of the Finance department. Partner with the CFO, Finance Leadership Team, IT, and cross-functional executives. Accountable for optimizing, and governing the finance systems and operational functions, including outlining new system capability needs, existing system sustainability practices, governance, data and reporting. Works closely with subject matter experts across Finance and IT to detail systems needs and align resources to achieve various project requirements. Apply business and financial acumen to assess risk, opportunities, and trade-offs of various systems projects. Explore new tools and systems to drive greater automation and efficiencies within Finance processes. Set direction and lead a team of professionals who oversee specialized functions within finance infrastructure, ensuring the organization has scalable platforms, standardized processes, robust data governance, and high-quality reporting to support strategic decision-making, regulatory compliance, and sustainable growth. Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and innovation within the finance operations and systems team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field required.
• 12-15 years of progressive experience in finance operations, systems, or governance.
• 5-7 years in senior leadership roles with responsibility for multiple teams and leaders.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-level system implementations, finance transformation initiatives, or large-scale governance programs.
• Expert understanding financial systems, applications, and reporting platforms.
• Strong knowledge of governance frameworks, regulatory compliance, and internal control structures.
• Familiarity with ESG frameworks and integration of sustainability metrics into financial.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (MBA, Master’s in Finance, or equivalent).
• Professional certification (CPA, CFA, CMA or similar).

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design, implementation, and optimization of finance technology platforms while working closely with IT on the future roadmap.
• Ensure end-to-end operational efficiency and integrity of financial data and systems across multiple platforms (e.g. reinsurance, accounting, reserving, data lakes, payments, etc.).
• Partner with IT, Finance, and Data teams to understand projects that could have both immediate and downstream impacts on financial information and systems.
• Coordinate alignment of resources, design, and testing to ensure system integrations and changes do not have adverse impacts on ongoing financial operations.
• Drive automation, digitization, and process simplification initiatives.
• Establish and maintain finance governance frameworks, including policies, internal controls, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Conduct risk assessments for finance operations, including data integrity, system access, and process adherence.
• Develop finance system sustainability framework including processes for release management, testing, change requests, and security.
• Develop frameworks to track, measure, and report on activity, severity, progress and potential financial impacts.
• Standardize finance reporting, dashboards, and KPIs across business units.
• Partner with Finance Leadership and Business Partners to create common definitions and data sources to enable one source of the facts around key financial and operational statistics.

Benefits

• 401k Match
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• PTO
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees