Senior Director, Finance Transformation

Conair•Stamford, CT

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director, Finance Transformation will modernize Conair’s finance operating model by turning fragmented processes, inconsistent data, manual reporting, and isolated tools into standardized, scalable, AI-enabled finance capabilities. The role has enterprise-wide Finance scope, with approximately 75% of first-year capacity focused on FP&A and commercial finance before extending further across Finance. Reporting within the CFO organization, the role partners with finance functions and business stakeholders, as well as IT, data, legal, and security teams. The leader will develop a multi-year transformation roadmap, standardize FP&A and management reporting, redesign workflows, and help deploy planning, profitability, workflow, reporting, and analytics capabilities. The role establishes data and reporting standards; builds practical automation and AI use cases; leads transformation governance, change management, and adoption; and creates a finance transformation center of excellence. It also owns finance requirements, process design, user acceptance testing, adoption, and value realization, while technical teams or vendors own technical configuration, development, integration, and quality assurance. During the first 12 to 18 months, the role is expected to complete a current-state diagnostic, develop an approved value-linked roadmap, publish common finance calendars and reporting standards, deliver profitability tools, launch controlled AI and automation pilots, establish pricing and trade-spend evaluation governance, and create a centralized repository and adoption routines for approved finance tools and materials.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
12+ years of progressive experience across finance, FP&A, finance transformation, enterprise performance management, business intelligence, or related disciplines; the posting also states 10+ years across finance, FP&A, commercial analytics, finance transformation, consulting, finance systems, or business transformation. Senior Director-level candidates should typically have 12+ years and demonstrated enterprise leadership.
Demonstrated success leading complex finance transformation programs from design through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization.
Hands-on understanding of planning, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis, data models, workflow design, and finance controls.
Experience with enterprise planning, ERP, data visualization, automation, or AI-enabled finance solutions.
Ability to translate business problems into practical process, data, and technology solutions while balancing speed, scalability, controls, and user experience.
Strong program leadership, stakeholder management, change leadership, and executive communication skills.
Experience developing business cases and cost-benefit analyses using ROI, payback period, implementation and run costs, capacity released, control improvement, and value realization.
Ability to translate ambiguous finance problems into clear requirements, minimum viable product builds, controlled pilots, and scalable routines.
Ability to distinguish high-value AI and automation from low-value complexity or technology-driven solutions without a clear business case.
Ability to align senior stakeholders through structured problem solving, clear communication, and credibility rather than relying only on formal authority.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, CMA, or a relevant transformation credential.
Experience with platforms such as SAP, Oracle, OneStream, Anaplan, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Microsoft Power Platform, or comparable solutions.
Experience in a global, multi-brand, multi-channel consumer products, retail, manufacturing, or similarly complex environment.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a multi-year finance transformation roadmap aligned with enterprise priorities, value creation goals, and the evolving finance operating model.
Standardize core FP&A and management reporting processes across business units and regions, including planning, forecasting, performance reviews, scenario analysis, and executive reporting.
Redesign finance workflows to remove low-value activities, clarify ownership and controls, reduce manual effort, and improve cycle time and data quality.
Lead the design and deployment of scalable planning, reporting, profitability, workflow, and analytics capabilities with IT and data teams.
Establish common data definitions, hierarchies, dimensions, governance, and reconciliation standards for management reporting and decision support.
Develop practical automation and AI use cases for forecasting, variance analysis, management commentary, scenario modeling, anomaly detection, reconciliations, and self-service insight.
Create and prioritize a finance automation pipeline based on business value, feasibility, control requirements, and user adoption.
Partner with Commercial Finance to develop reusable profitability engines covering brands, categories, channels, customers, and SKUs.
Own transformation governance, including milestones, dependencies, benefits tracking, risks, decision rights, and executive steering updates.
Lead change management and adoption by defining new roles, training users, establishing process ownership, and measuring sustained use and outcomes.
Create a finance transformation center of excellence that provides standards, methods, templates, and delivery support.
Build internal capability so finance teams can use new data, tools, automation, and AI responsibly and independently.
Establish a consistent cost-benefit analysis methodology for technology, data, automation, and process solutions, covering implementation and recurring costs, capacity released, risk reduction, payback period, ROI, and ownership of realized benefits.
Translate finance problems into clear requirements, process designs, minimum viable products, testing plans, acceptance criteria, and scalable operating routines.
Clarify delivery accountability across Finance, internal IT and Data teams, and external vendors. Own finance requirements, process design, user acceptance testing, adoption, and value realization; technical teams or vendors own configuration, development, integration, and technical quality assurance.
Create and maintain a centralized Finance Transformation repository for approved tools, models, process documentation, data definitions, training materials, FAQs, release notes, and support ownership.
Focus approximately 75% of first-year capacity on FP&A and commercial finance priorities while establishing standards and a roadmap for the broader Finance organization.
Complete a current-state diagnostic of finance processes, reports, data pain points, tools, controls, capability gaps, and manual work intensity within the first 12 to 18 months.
Create an approved transformation roadmap that separates quick wins from foundational builds and ties initiatives to measurable business value.
Publish a common finance calendar, reporting taxonomy, KPI dictionary, and decision-rights model for core FP&A and commercial finance routines.
Deliver standardized profitability tools for SKU, customer, category, and channel economics.
Launch controlled AI and automation pilots for variance analysis, forecast-driver analysis, Board reporting support, and recurring report production.
Implement governance for pricing and trade-spend evaluation, including ownership, refresh cadence, approval logic, and post-event measurement.
Establish the centralized repository and adoption routines so finance teams can find, learn, use, and sustain approved tools.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Short- and long-term disability insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Paid time off.
11 paid holidays.
Two paid volunteer days.
Employee product discounts.
401(k) plan with employer contributions.
Eligibility for certain benefits may vary based on employment status and plan terms.
Eligible to participate in Conair's annual bonus program.