Senior Director of Finance

CSC•Wilmington, NC

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Director of the Finance Transformation Office is an experienced strategic transformation leader responsible for designing, executing, and governing CSC’s corporate finance and technology-led transformation initiatives. Reporting to the Finance Executive, this role modernizes financial systems, processes, and operating models to improve efficiency, transparency, and decision-making. The Senior Director works with finance and business unit leaders and across finance, technology, and business stakeholders to build alignment, shared accountability, and adoption. The role identifies transformation risks, removes execution barriers, and develops enterprise-wide solutions that balance business needs, operational priorities, and long-term transformation objectives. The Senior Director sets and maintains a multi-year finance transformation strategy, aligns it with enterprise initiatives, and prioritizes a portfolio of work across Finance Operations, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Reporting. The role advises the CFO and finance leadership on the business impact and value of automation, AI, and emerging technologies. The position leads the Finance Transformation Office portfolio from planning through value realization, including scope, budget, timelines, resources, and benefits tracking. It oversees major programs involving process redesign, ERP and EPM implementations, and operating model changes such as shared services or centers of excellence. The role establishes process and program governance, manages delivery and control risks, standardizes performance measurement, builds a trusted finance data foundation, and ensures changes strengthen controls and remain audit-ready. The Senior Director also leads change management, communications, training, and adoption; fosters innovation and continuous improvement; and oversees the full Finance Transformation Office team across business, technology, and PMO functions. The role builds a high-performing team and enterprise transformation capabilities, develops future finance transformation talent, and establishes clarity and momentum across complex initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a related field.
15+ years of progressive experience in finance, finance systems, or finance consulting, including at least 7 years leading finance transformation programs.
Track record of delivering end-to-end, large-scale finance transformation, such as an ERP or EPM implementation or shared services build, in a global, multi-entity, matrixed organization, with measurable business value.
Deep working knowledge of core finance processes, including record-to-report, planning and forecasting, consolidation, and financial controls, and how they operate in systems such as Oracle or SAP.
Experience implementing process governance frameworks and managing value realization and benefits tracking.
Proven ability to build enterprise transformation capabilities and teams, and manage teams across locations, remote settings, and levels of seniority.
Fluency in modern finance technology, including cloud ERP, EPM, automation, and data platforms, sufficient to shape architecture decisions alongside Enterprise Technology.
Understanding of enterprise architecture, data modernization, analytics, and agile frameworks.
Proven change leadership, including finance operating model redesign, organizational change, adoption of new ways of working, and demonstrable adoption results.
Executive presence and strong stakeholder management, including experience presenting to executive and board-level audiences and framing trade-offs for CFOs, SVPs, and steering committees.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or MBA.
CPA, CA, or CMA.
Big Four or finance-transformation consulting experience paired with in-house delivery.
Experience integrating acquired entities onto a common finance platform.

Responsibilities

Set and maintain a multi-year finance transformation strategy tied to CSC’s growth and scalability goals.
Align finance transformation with enterprise transformation initiatives, coordinating priorities, dependencies, and investments.
Build and prioritize the initiative portfolio across Finance Operations, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Reporting using clear value cases.
Advise the CFO and finance leadership on the value and impact of automation, AI, and emerging technologies.
Lead the Finance Transformation Office portfolio end to end, including scope, budget, timeline, resourcing, value realization, and benefits tracking.
Lead multi-year programs spanning process redesign, ERP and EPM implementations, and operating model changes such as shared services or centers of excellence.
Establish enterprise finance process governance and program governance, including process ownership standards, steering committees, stage gates, and escalation paths.
Identify, escalate, and mitigate delivery, control, and stakeholder alignment risks across the transformation portfolio.
Standardize finance performance measurement and reporting with consistent transformation outcome KPIs.
Build a trusted finance data foundation and govern data quality and management practices for reporting, planning, and analytics.
Ensure changes strengthen the control environment and remain audit-ready.
Own change management and communications to drive adoption, commitment, and accountability.
Build finance capabilities through training, playbooks, super-user networks, and cross-functional collaboration.
Foster innovation and continuous improvement by piloting emerging technologies and scaling successful approaches.
Oversee and manage the full Finance Transformation Office team across business, technology, and PMO functions.
Build and lead a high-performing team of transformation leads, global business process owners, business analysts, and project managers.
Build enterprise transformation capabilities, develop future finance transformation talent, and foster partnerships across Finance, Technology, and Business.
Lead through ambiguity and establish clarity, alignment, and momentum across complex cross-functional initiatives.