Senior Manager, Business Transformation and Cost Leadership

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.

The Senior Manager, Business Transformation Office (BTO) serves as the primary finance partner for the transformation portfolio, ensuring financial integrity, compliance, and value realization across all initiatives. This role is responsible for validating business cases, overseeing financial reporting and actuals tracking, partnering with FP&A on value capture processes, and providing financial leadership to support strategic decision-making. The BTO Finance Lead plays a critical role in driving accountability, process rigor, and sustainable results throughout the transformation lifecycle.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

• Own the financial compliance, actuals validation, and value realization processes for all transformation initiatives.
• Partner with FP&A to ensure alignment between initiative savings, forecasts, and reported financial results.
• Validate the financial impact of transformation initiatives and ensure savings are accurately measured, documented, and reported.
• Review initiatives at critical stage gates to validate business cases, assumptions, financial models, and expected value delivery.
• Ensure adherence to established financial governance standards and transformation methodologies.
• Develop and maintain executive-level dashboards, scorecards, and ad hoc financial analyses.
• Identify risks, variances, and opportunities impacting initiative performance and value capture. Make recommendations to resolve emerging issues or accelerate savings opportunities.
• Serve as the primary liaison between the Business Transformation Office and FP&A teams and provide relevant financial data in development of annual financial plan.
• Support the FP&A team in creating Long Range Plans, forecasting and reconciling BTO impacts to the P&L.
• Ensure consistency between transformation reporting and enterprise financial reporting and present financial performance updates BTO leadership, SteerCo members, and executive stakeholders.
• Foster strong partnerships with initiative owners, workstream leaders, sponsors, and finance teams.
• Support cross-functional decision-making through clear communication of financial implications and business impacts.
• Support workstreams in problem-solving, financial analysis, and roadblock resolution.
• Reinforce process discipline, governance requirements, and accountability during BTO reviews and operating cadences and challenge assumptions and encourage data-driven decision-making to maximize value realization.
• Identify opportunities to enhance reporting processes, financial controls, and transformation governance.
• Supervise and develop BTO Senior Financial Analysts and provide coaching, performance management, and professional development opportunities for team members.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

EDUCATION: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 7+ years

YEARS OF MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: 3+ years

CERTIFICATIONS / LICENSES CPA, CMA, MBA, or equivalent professional certification

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, Transformation, Business Performance Management, or related functions.
• Strong financial modeling, business case development, and analytical skills.
• Experience presenting financial results and recommendations to executive leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive results without direct authority.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting tools.
• Ability to effectively build relationships to influence stakeholders and teams through indirect leadership, working across organizational lines and varying levels of the organization, including SVP/EVP level.
• Ability to effectively facilitate and lead meetings of varying size and purpose based on audience.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate key project points and adjust communications as needed based on audience, making the complex simple to understand.
• Develop an understanding of company vision, strategy, and key initiatives.  Achieve detailed understanding of functional area of the project and related processes to be able to challenge assumptions and thinking and provide thought leadership.

If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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