Director, Enterprise Finance Transformation
About The Position
The Director of Enterprise Finance Transformation will lead the finance transformation agenda across the finance organization and ensure alignment with strategic business objectives. The role reengineers finance processes, implements best practices, and leverages technology to improve financial efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making. The Director works with senior leadership, finance teams, and shared service centers in Cluj, Romania, and Manila, Philippines. The position is based in Westerville, Ohio, and reports to the VP Accounting. It involves approximately 15%–20% travel. The Director leads a team of five direct reports: Global Process Leads for Record to Report, Credit and Collections, and Accounts Payable; a Finance Project Manager; and an Automation and Solutions Architect. The successful candidate is expected to embrace Vertiv’s core principles and behaviors and help execute its strategic priorities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 12 or more years of experience in finance, including 5 or more years in a leadership or transformation role.
- Proven track record managing and delivering large-scale finance transformation initiatives, including process optimization.
- Deep understanding of finance systems, process improvement methodologies such as Lean and Six Sigma, and financial technologies.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to drive change, manage cross-functional teams, and influence senior leaders across the organization.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term strategic goals.
Responsibilities
- Lead development and execution of the Enterprise Finance Transformation strategy, aligned with business goals and priorities.
- Define transformation roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics for the finance function; provide strategic direction to finance leadership and establish transformation governance and KPIs.
- Reengineer financial processes to streamline workflows, increase automation, and improve data accuracy.
- Improve financial reporting, financial close, credit and collections, and purchase-to-pay processes to promote consistency and timeliness.
- Identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve quality and customer experience.
- Lead selection, implementation, integration, and optimization of finance technology solutions, including robotic process automation and AI tools.
- Monitor emerging finance technology trends and encourage continuous learning and adoption of digital tools across finance teams.
- Manage large-scale finance transformation projects, including stakeholder engagement, risk management, and cross-department communication.
- Develop and implement change management strategies to support transitions to new systems, processes, and ways of working.
- Work with business leaders to promote adoption of transformation initiatives and alignment with broader business goals.
- Ensure transformation initiatives comply with regulatory standards and internal governance policies.
- Establish frameworks to monitor new processes and systems for compliance and continuous improvement.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the transformation team; foster collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
- Implement metrics and KPIs to evaluate transformation initiatives and report progress, outcomes, challenges, and improvement areas to the CFO and senior leadership.
- Collaborate with finance leaders to support sound financial management and risk mitigation.
- Ensure new processes and systems preserve financial data integrity and minimize operational risk.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
