Senior Director of Finance Transformation

ASM Global•Norwalk, CT

2d•$200,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Finance Transformation is a capstone leadership role within the Finance Systems organization, responsible for bridging all three Finance Systems verticals: Enterprise Application Support, Transformation, and Reporting & Data. Reporting to the VP, Finance Systems, this role serves as the senior accountable leader for end-to-end finance process design, system implementation, and the data infrastructure that underpins financial reporting and decision-making across the enterprise. The Director will partner closely with finance leadership, regional finance teams, IT, and external implementation partners to define the global deployment roadmap, drive adoption, and ensure that the organization’s financial data architecture is reliable, scalable, and fit for purpose.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field required; MBA or Master’s degree preferred.
CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional certification strongly preferred.
10+ years of progressive finance, accounting, or consulting experience required, including at least 5 years leading finance transformation or systems implementation initiatives in a complex, global environment.
Proven track record as a Global Process Owner or equivalent senior lead on ERP implementations (D365 F&O, SAP, Oracle, Workday, or equivalent), including ownership of business requirements, configuration oversight, UAT, and training.
Demonstrated experience with finance data architecture, data warehousing, and ETL/integration tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Informatica, Talend).
Hands-on experience with financial reporting tools and BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent); exposure to AI/ML applications in finance preferred.
Experience leading finance data migration efforts, including data mapping, cleansing, validation, and cutover management.
Strong background in master data governance, KPI design, and financial planning and performance measurement frameworks.
Strategic thinker with the ability to connect operational detail to enterprise strategy and communicate effectively across finance, IT, and executive leadership audiences.
Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills; able to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools; proficient in BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and Microsoft Excel.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; proven ability to influence and align across geographies, functions, and organizational levels
Self-directed, adaptable, and comfortable leading in a dynamic, fast-paced, and matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

Holistic Finance Solution Ownership
Serve as the senior accountable owner of the end-to-end finance systems solution, spanning the full lifecycle from transaction initiation (P2P, R2R, O2C) through financial close and reporting
Provide strategic direction to a team of dotted-line process and functional owners, ensuring cross-vertical alignment and that decisions within any one domain are evaluated for their downstream impact across the full solution.
Serve as the senior escalation point for cross-vertical issues, design conflicts, and trade-offs spanning process, data, and reporting boundaries
Represent the integrated Finance Systems solution to Finance leadership and executive stakeholders.
Global Process Design & Solution Roadmap
Define and maintain the global finance process design framework, establishing standards for how processes are designed, documented, and governed across all legal entities and functional domains
Own and communicate the finance systems solution roadmap, translating strategic business priorities into a sequenced, cross-vertical delivery plan in partnership with IT, Finance leadership, and external implementation partners.
Provide senior subject matter expertise across the financial application portfolio, ensuring tool design and deployment decisions reflect enterprise architecture standards, long-term scalability, and the integrated transaction-to-report solution.
Business Requirements & Implementation Leadership
Lead business requirements definition at the program level for finance systems initiatives, ensuring requirements capture the full transaction-to-report scope and that cross-vertical dependencies are identified and resolved before configuration begins.
Serve as the Finance program lead for ERP and financial system implementations, providing oversight of functional design governance, cross-workstream integration, and delivery partner performance.
Own UAT governance for finance system implementations, ensuring test coverage spans the end-to-end solution and that sign-off reflects validated integration across process, configuration, and reporting layers.
Training, Adoption & Change Management
Own the change management and adoption strategy for finance systems initiatives, ensuring impacted users across all legal entities and functional roles are prepared for changes spanning the full transaction-to-report lifecycle.
Set direction and standards for finance training program design
Lead user community communications, ensuring the finance organization receives timely, integrated messaging about system changes, enhancements, and go-live milestones across the end-to-end solution.
Continuous Improvement & Change Request Governance
Own the governance framework for finance system change requests, establishing the intake, evaluation, and prioritization process through which all three process and functional owners surface improvement opportunities to Finance leadership.
Evaluate change requests for cross-vertical impact before prioritization, ensuring improvements in one domain (e.g. P2P workflow change) are assessed for their effect on downstream data flows, reporting, and adjacent process areas.
Synthesize approved change requests into a coherent continuous improvement roadmap, balancing tactical fixes with strategic enhancements in alignment with the broader finance systems solution roadmap.
Finance Data, Reporting & Analytics Strategy
Own the strategic vision for finance data and reporting, ensuring that data architecture, reporting frameworks, and analytics capabilities reflect and support upstream process design decisions made across transactional process domains.
Provide strategic direction and senior oversight to the Finance Data & Reporting Owner, ensuring the data and reporting solution remains aligned with enterprise priorities and the integrated transaction-to-report model.
Champion data and analytics as a strategic asset across the Finance organization, partnering with Finance leadership to define reporting priorities, KPI frameworks, and standards for evaluating the quality and usefulness of financial reporting outputs.