Finance Manager - Value Realization/ GSS

Brink's Inc•Coppell, TX

About The Position

This VRO–GSS Finance Manager provides financial leadership and decision support to the Global Shared Services (GSS) organization and reports to the VRO–GSS Finance Director. Acting as a trusted finance business partner to the GSS Leadership Team, the position enables informed decision-making through financial transparency, performance insights, and clear evaluation of tradeoffs as GSS scales. The role integrates operational strategy with financial outcomes by translating complex data into actionable insights for senior leadership. The position is responsible for end‑to‑end financial management for GSS, including business case development and governance for service delivery transitions, budget and forecast ownership, and vendor cost oversight. The role ensures strong financial discipline through cost governance, transformation cost management, and audit‑ready processes, while also delivering transparent cost‑to‑serve and allocation models for internal customers. Overall, the role is critical in strengthening financial rigor, accountability, and scalable growth across the GSS organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field; MBA or CPA preferred.
5-8 years of progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), finance business partnering, or corporate finance.
Business case development and long‑term financial modeling to support strategic and transformation initiatives.
Budget management and forecasting within complex, matrixed organizations.
Variance analysis and executive‑level financial reporting to drive performance insights and decision‑making.
Experience supporting large-scale transformations, shared services, or global operating models.
Proven ability to manage vendor financial governance, including outsourced or managed services arrangements.
Strong understanding of cost allocation methodologies and cost-to-serve analysis.
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders.
High attention to detail with a strong audit and controls mindset.
Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with enterprise financial systems preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as a finance business partner to the Global Shared Services (GSS) Leadership Team, providing financial leadership, decision support, and performance transparency as GSS scales.
Deliver insights that connect operational strategies and delivery decisions to financial outcomes, enabling informed tradeoffs and executive decision‑making.
Build, maintain, and govern business case models and financial trackers for service delivery transitions, ensuring assumptions, phasing, one‑time costs, and benefits realization remain accurate and current.
Produce monthly variance‑to‑business‑case reporting and maintain exception logs to support strong governance and leadership decisions.
Manage the GSS budget in partnership with the VRO–GSS Finance Director, supporting all FP&A cycles including annual planning, forecasts, and actuals tracking.
Provide clear variance analysis, performance insights, and actionable recommendations to drive accountability and financial discipline.
Partner with GSS leadership and BPO leadership to design and operate an effective cost governance model that ensures efficient management of delivery fees.
Establish and manage processes to review Change Requests, assess financial impacts, and ensure approved decisions are accurately reflected in forecasts and budgets.
Coordinate severance accruals for the Transformation program across local teams, ensuring consistent accounting treatment, audit‑ready documentation, and compliance with internal controls.
Develop, maintain, and execute GSS cost allocation methodologies in partnership with GSS leadership.
Deliver transparent cost‑to‑serve reporting for internal customers, including Market Units and Functions, to support financial clarity and informed consumption decisions.