Director of BU Finance Strategy & Operational Effectiveness

Director of BU Finance Strategy & Operational Effectiveness

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

The Director for BU Finance Strategy & Operational is responsible for strengthening how the Hybrid Cloud Finance organization operates—helping teams focus on the highest-value work, simplify ways of working, and build scalable practices that support business growth. This role serves as an enabler of clarity, consistency, and impact across Finance, ensuring the organization is aligned around common priorities, repeatable processes, and the capabilities needed to provide strong business partnership and decision support.

Working closely with the BU CFO and Finance leadership team, this leader will identify where to invest and where to simplify. The role will champion operating effectiveness, thoughtful modernization, AI-enabled productivity, and analytical excellence while helping build a more consistent, scalable, and connected Finance organization.

Key Responsibilities

Lead Finance Strategy & Prioritization

• Partner with Finance leadership to define and execute the BU Finance strategic roadmap.
• Establish a rigorous prioritization framework to focus on the initiatives that create the greatest business impact.
• Drive reviews to determine where to invest, scale or simplify.
• Provide visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes tied to key Finance priorities.

Enable Modernization & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and digital capabilities to improve productivity and effectiveness.
• Build and govern improvement initiatives with clear business cases, milestones, expected benefits, and thoughtful change plans.
• Act as a catalyst for practical modernization and continuous improvement across the Finance organization.

Create a Consistent Finance Operating Model

• Standardize processes, tools, reporting, templates, and ways of working across the BU Finance organization.
• Establish governance mechanisms that ensure consistent execution and service delivery.
• Drive simplification efforts that reduce complexity and improve scalability.
• Ensure Finance outputs are high quality, repeatable, and reflect a unified Finance organization.

Enhance Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Partner cross-functionally with Business Unit leaders, FP&A, Finance Digital Transformation and Corporate Strategy

Leadership Expectations

This leader will:

• Optimize for overall business outcomes.
• Simplify complexity and create clarity.
• Build alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Balance strategic vision with disciplined execution.
• Inspire a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 10+ years of Finance, Strategy, Consulting, Operating Effectiveness, or Business Operations experience.
• Proven track record leading complex cross-functional initiatives that improve clarity, consistency, scalability, and business impact.
• Experience driving operating model design, process simplification, and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
• Strong strategic planning, change management, and program leadership capabilities.
• Experience influencing senior executives and operating effectively in matrix organizations.

Critical Success Factors

Within the first 12-18 months, success will be measured by:

• Partnering to help create a clear Hybrid Cloud Finance strategy and operating effectiveness roadmap.
• Standardizing core Finance processes, governance, and outputs.
• Improving consistency and quality of Finance support across the organization.
• Driving measurable productivity gains through simplification, automation, and AI.

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 143,500 - 347,500 in Texas
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

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