Vice President – Director Corporate Functional Partner – Enterprise Functional Platforms

OneMain Financial•Baltimore, MD

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Vice President – Director Corporate Functional Partner for Back-Office Systems. This role serves as the technology and business partner for Corporate/Back Office functions (e.g., Finance, HR, Legal, Communications and related shared services), reporting to the Vice President Managing Director of Technology Production Operations. The Corporate Functional Partner (VP/Director) enables simple, common, enterprise-leverage platforms and capabilities while ensuring each function’s unique needs are understood, challenged appropriately, and met through scalable, secure, and compliant solutions. The role blends consultative partnership, product/platform leadership, and cross-functional influence to deliver outcomes that improve productivity, reduce complexity, and strengthen enterprise governance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (or equivalent relevant experience).
10+ years of progressive experience in technology, product/platform leadership, or business technology partnership roles, including enterprise-scale delivery.
5+ years leading teams and/or large cross-functional programs with significant stakeholder complexity.
Demonstrated experience partnering with corporate functions such as Finance, HR, Legal, Communications, Procurement, Risk/Compliance, or similar shared services.
Experience working in a regulated industry (financial services strongly preferred) with familiarity navigating compliance, audit, privacy, and security expectations.
Proven ability to drive platform standardization and simplification while maintaining strong customer experience and functional outcomes.
Experience managing third-party vendors and enterprise software relationships (contracts, performance, roadmap alignment).
Executive-level business partnering with the ability to influence, challenge constructively, and align diverse stakeholder priorities.
Strong product and platform mindset, with experience driving standardization, reuse, and enterprise leverage while meeting domain-specific needs.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate between business, technical, and risk/compliance audiences.
Proven experience in roadmap development, intake/prioritization, and portfolio execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Knowledge of enterprise platforms and corporate function systems (e.g., ERP/financial systems, HRIS/HCM, collaboration and communications platforms, contract lifecycle management, GRC tools).
Proven experience with program and project management, able to lead cross-functional delivery through matrixed teams using Agile and/or hybrid delivery methods.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including process mapping, root cause analysis, and benefits/value modeling.

Responsibilities

Build trusted partnerships with senior leaders across Finance, HR, Legal, Communications, and other corporate functions to understand strategies, priorities, and pain points and translate them into a clear technology enablement approach.
Lead discovery and requirements shaping with functional stakeholders by clarifying desired business outcomes, simplifying where possible, and ensuring requirements align to enterprise standards and reusable capabilities.
Own the functional technology roadmap across corporate domains, balancing enterprise platform leverage with function-specific needs, and ensuring priorities are aligned with business value and organizational capacity.
Serve as the primary point of accountability for end-to-end delivery across corporate functional initiatives, coordinating across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Data, Vendor Management, and Change/Training teams.
Champion platform rationalization and standardization by reducing duplicative tools, driving adoption of common capabilities, leveraging cloud capabilities & modern technologies and enabling consistent processes, controls, and reporting.
Establish and run governance forums (e.g., functional technology councils, steering committees, intake/prioritization cadences) to drive transparency, decision-making, funding alignment, and risk management.
Collaborate with functional teams to evaluate solution options, including process redesign, configuration-first approaches, system enhancements & upgrades, and integration opportunities, bringing practical recommendations to the table.
Collaborate with Technology teams to ensure non-functional requirements are defined and implemented into the platforms that enable the functional technology.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders to ensure solutions meet regulatory obligations, audit expectations, data protection standards, and internal controls (including segregation of duties where applicable).
Manage vendor and partner relationships for relevant enterprise platforms and tools, including performance management, contract neogiation & alignment, roadmap influence, and cost/value optimization.
Define success measures (OKRs/KPIs) for functional and technology outcomes, track benefits realization, and continuously improve services based on adoption, user experience, operational stability, and cost efficiency.
Lead and mentor a team (directly or through matrixed leadership) to deliver consistent stakeholder engagement, high-quality execution, and strong operational rigor.