Program Manager, Finance Transformation

Cardinal Health•Dublin, OH

17h•$106,700 - $152,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Program Manager, Finance Transformation, leads complex and transformational programs through disciplined program and project management and change management strategies. The role plans, organizes, and controls resources, procedures, schedules, budgets, and deliverables for business processes, while coordinating project teams and integrating vendor work into program plans. It ensures adherence to quality standards and reports on project cost, timing, staffing, and progress. The position develops and governs finance transformation initiatives from scoping through delivery. It establishes clear business cases, scope, dependencies, resource models, and success measures; maintains action-item and decision tracking; facilitates governance across work teams and executive Steering Committees; and translates complex performance, dependency, and financial information into executive reporting and decision frameworks. The role also identifies delivery risks and roadblocks, prioritizes a portfolio of initiatives, and works with business, technology, data, shared-service, and vendor partners to align technical solutions with operational needs and enterprise architecture.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience is preferred.
8–12 years of experience is preferred.
Experience managing cross-functional initiatives involving global shared services, offshore delivery teams, or third-party service providers.
Proven ability to lead steering committees and high-stakes working sessions with senior leaders, constructively challenge assumptions, and build consensus across conflicting priorities without formal authority.
Ability to manage concurrent, fast-paced workstreams with fluid scope, shifting dependencies, and competing resource demands.
Fluency in structured problem-solving methodologies such as DMAIC, Lean Six Sigma, Root Cause Problem Solving, and FMEA.
Ability to translate complex business needs into technical specifications and communicate with business executives and technical teams, including enterprise architects, developers, and data scientists.
Strong focus on milestone delivery, closure of open actions, and measurable business outcomes.
Ability to work a hybrid schedule.

Nice To Haves

Background in industries with complex multi-tier pricing models, B2B wholesale distribution, or healthcare ecosystems.
Experience in large, complex, matrixed enterprise environments such as Fortune 500 companies, healthcare distribution, manufacturing, or wholesale distribution.
Familiarity with contract, pricing, or revenue management systems such as Vistex, Model N, or Salesforce CPQ.
Exposure to data analytics and process intelligence platforms such as Celonis, Alteryx, Tableau, or Power BI.
Baseline understanding of automation and modern AI capabilities, including RPA, Agentic AI, and document intelligence.

Responsibilities

Author project charters and scoping documents that define problem statements, quantitative business cases, in-scope and out-of-scope boundaries, cross-functional dependencies, resource models, and ROI or success metrics.
Track action items and project decisions from steering committee directives and working sessions through assigned, time-bound deliverables and transparent progress reporting.
Establish and facilitate a multi-tier meeting and governance cadence for working teams, cross-functional leads, and executive Steering Committees.
Ensure team members update key metrics and commentary accurately and on time for recurring and program deliverables.
Synthesize cross-workstream dependencies, performance metrics, and financial impacts into executive readouts, dashboards, and decision frameworks.
Identify systemic delivery roadblocks, cross-team friction, and data dependencies; develop countermeasures and escalate decision options to senior leadership.
Prioritize transformation initiatives across a portfolio, balancing quick wins with mid-term workflow enhancements and multi-year architectural modernization.
Map and monitor cross-functional dependencies, handoffs, and friction points among teams including Sales, Commercial Operations, Master Data, Billing, Sourcing, FP&A, and IT.
Partner with Enterprise IT, Data Engineering, shared service centers, and third-party vendors to evaluate technical options against operational problems and align Business Requirement Documents with enterprise architecture roadmaps.