- Location
- US
- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Transportation
- Seniority
- Director
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Eightfold
Description
Lead the Finance Transformation Portfolio Own the Finance Digital Enablement portfolio across Record-to-Report (RTR), Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Order-to-Cash (OTC), AI & Automation, and future Finance transformation initiatives. Establish portfolio governance, prioritization, capacity planning, investment oversight, dependency management, and executive reporting processes. Ensure alignment between strategic priorities, available capacity, investment decisions, and delivery execution. Provide portfolio-level visibility into risks, opportunities, dependencies, and business outcomes. Provide leadership across complex cross-functional transformation initiatives spanning Finance, Accounting, IT, Procurement, Treasury, Human Resources, Sales, and other business functions. Ensure disciplined management of scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, resources, and quality. Deliver clear executive communications, decision support, and escalation management. Establish organizational change management capabilities that support successful adoption of transformation initiatives. Ensure employees are prepared to adopt new technologies, AI capabilities, business processes, controls, roles, and ways of working. Develop communication and learning strategies that support transformation objectives and accelerate adoption. Ensure communications and learning activities support long-term behavioral and process change. Establish processes to track benefits realization, operational improvements, financial outcomes, control enhancements, and employee experience improvements. Establish governance forums, steering committees, executive dashboards, reporting standards, decision-making processes, and escalation frameworks. Develop and maintain KPIs covering project health, portfolio performance, delivery effectiveness, organizational readiness, adoption, value realization, and transformation maturity. Ensure consistent reporting and transparency across the transformation portfolio. Develop trusted relationships across Finance, IT, Internal Audit, Procurement, Human Resources, executive leadership, and strategic vendors. Establishing the Finance Digital Enablement operating model. Implementing a single enterprise view of the Finance transformation portfolio. Establishing portfolio KPIs, executive dashboards, governance forums, and reporting standards. Building trusted partnerships across Business Owners, Global Process Owners, IT, and executive leadership. Implementing portfolio intake, prioritization, capacity planning, and escalation processes. Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Organizational Development, Project Management, or a related discipline. 10+ years of progressive leadership experience leading enterprise transformation programs, portfolio management, PMOs, digital transformation initiatives, or business transformation efforts. Demonstrated success establishing and leading a Transformation Management Office, Enterprise PMO, or similar delivery organization. Proven experience leading large-scale cross-functional transformation initiatives involving Finance, Accounting, technology, automation, AI, or enterprise systems. Strong expertise in portfolio management, governance, program delivery, organizational change management, communications, business readiness, and value realization. Experience developing executive dashboards, governance frameworks, KPIs, portfolio reporting, and performance measurement processes. Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and influence senior leaders without direct authority. Strong understanding of Finance transformation, technology implementation, process improvement, organizational change, and benefits realization. Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery environments. Exceptional communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, strategic planning, coaching, and relationship-building skills. MBA or other advanced degree. PMP, PgMP, Prosci, or other relevant program management or organizational change certification. Experience supporting Finance transformation, ERP modernization, AI adoption, intelligent automation, shared services, or operating model transformation initiatives. Experience working in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or technology-driven organization. Experience leading global transformation portfolios across multiple business functions.