Director, Finance Projects & Digital Enablement

Director, Finance Projects & Digital Enablement

The Director, Finance Projects & Digital Enablement is responsible for leading the project portfolio and advancing digital enablement across the global Finance organization. This role serves as the operational backbone of the Global Process Owner organization by providing leadership in portfolio management, value realization, performance analytics, change management, and digital enablement. The role ensures Finance transformation initiatives are not only delivered successfully but also achieve sustainable business outcomes and measurable value for the enterprise.

This role partners closely with Global Process Owners, Global Process Delivery, Controllership, FP&A, IT, Tax, Treasury, regional finance leaders, and operating companies to deliver scalable process improvements, automation, analytics, and system-enabled transformation.

The Director will establish governance and execution discipline for finance projects, translate strategic priorities into actionable roadmaps, and ensure initiatives are delivered with clear ownership, measurable outcomes, strong change management, and sustainable adoption. This role will support the Modern Finance agenda by enabling more standardized, data-driven, and future-ready finance processes across the enterprise.

This position reports to the Sr. Director, Finance GPO & Delivery and will be based in Brea (California) or Prague (Czech Republic).

Key Responsibilities

Finance Project Portfolio Leadership

• Lead the global Finance project portfolio in partnership with the Sr. Director, Finance GPO & Delivery, Global Process Owners, Global Process Delivery, IT, and regional finance leaders
• Establish project governance, prioritization frameworks, roadmaps, timelines, milestones, status reporting, risk management, and escalation routines for Finance transformation initiatives
• Manage cross-functional project execution across core finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Invoice-to-Pay, Invoice-to-Cash, Intercompany, Payroll, Statutory Accounting, and related finance operations
• Drive disciplined execution of finance projects, ensuring initiatives are clearly scoped, resourced, measured, and aligned with enterprise priorities
• Maintain visibility to the Finance transformation pipeline, including project benefits, dependencies, risks, resource needs, and decision points

Value Realization Management

• Establish and maintain a Finance Value Management framework to measure, validate, and report project benefits, including cost savings, cost avoidance, productivity improvements, working capital impact, revenue enablement, risk reduction, and customer experience improvements
• Partner with Global Process Owners and Finance leaders to develop business cases, baseline current-state performance, define success metrics, and track benefit realization through project completion and operational stabilization
• Maintain visibility to committed, forecasted, delivered, and realized value across the Finance transformation portfolio, ensuring accountability for outcomes and transparency to Finance leadership
• Develop executive dashboards and performance reporting that communicate portfolio health, realized benefits, adoption of metrics, dependencies, risks, and value delivery against transformation objectives
• Support annual planning and prioritization activities by providing data-driven insights regarding project returns, strategic alignment, resource utilization, and value realization performance

Digital Enablement & Automation

• Identify, evaluate, and advance digital enablement opportunities that improve finance quality, speed, cost, scalability, compliance, and user experience
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to implement finance technology solutions, including ERP enhancements, workflow tools, reconciliations platforms, reporting tools, RPA, analytics, AI-enabled solutions, and other automation capabilities
• Translate finance process requirements into practical technology and data solutions that support standardized, efficient, and controlled operations
• Support global ERP, finance systems, and automation initiatives by ensuring process design, data requirements, controls, and business adoption are considered from project initiation through deployment
• Build and maintain digital enablement roadmaps that align technology investments with Finance transformation priorities
• Foster a culture of technology advocacy within Finance by identifying emerging technologies and analytics capabilities that can accelerate process transformation, improve decision-making, and enhance user experience
• Act as a strategic liaison between Finance and IT to ensure technology investments are aligned to business priorities, process standards, and measurable business outcomes

Global Process Owner Support & Process Transformation

• Partner with Global Process Owners to define and execute initiatives that simplify, standardize, digitize, and scale global finance processes
• Support the design and implementation of global process standards, policies, controls, KPIs, dashboards, and performance management routines
• Facilitate process mapping, root cause analysis, future-state design, business case development, and implementation planning for high-priority finance initiatives
• Ensure project outcomes align with Global Process Owner standards and can be sustainably executed by Global Process Delivery teams and regional finance organizations
• Promote consistency across regions and operating companies while balancing necessary local statutory, regulatory, and business requirements
• Coordinate process documentation standards and governance, and continuous review cycles to ensure consistency across global Finance processes
• Facilitate periodic reviews of process performance and compliance to identify opportunities for standardization, simplification, automation, and control enhancement
• Support Global Process Owners in developing standardized process scorecards, dashboards, and management routines to monitor process health and drive continuous improvement

Governance, Controls & Compliance

• Ensure finance projects and digital solutions are designed with appropriate control requirements, SOX considerations, auditability, data integrity, and policy alignment
• Partner with Controllership, Compliance, IT, and internal audit stakeholders to identify risks and embed control expectations into project design and execution
• Establish project documentation standards, including business requirements, process flows, control impacts, testing plans, training materials, and post-implementation support models
• Monitor project delivery against defined success measures, including compliance, process effectiveness, productivity, adoption, cycle time, error reduction, and service quality
• Establish and monitor governance routines that provide visibility into process compliance, policy adherence, KPI performance, and process execution effectiveness across regions and operating companies

Change Management, Training & Adoption

• Lead change management activities for Finance transformation initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness assessments, and adoption tracking
• Partner with finance leaders to build capability across global teams and support consistent adoption of new processes, systems, tools, and ways of working
• Develop clear communication materials that translate complex project or technology topics into practical business messages for Finance stakeholders
• Establish feedback loops with Global Process Delivery, regional finance teams, and operating companies to identify adoption barriers and continuous improvement opportunities
• Measure and report adoption effectiveness, benefit realization sustainability, and organizational readiness to ensure transformation outcomes are embedded within normal business operations

Stakeholder Partnership & Leadership

• Serve as a trusted partner to Finance, IT, and business leaders on project execution, digital enablement, process improvement, and transformation delivery
• Facilitate decision-making across cross-functional stakeholders by clarifying options, trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and recommended actions
• Lead and influence project teams that may include direct reports, dotted-line resources, external consultants, IT partners, and finance subject matter experts
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution across Finance project teams
• Serve as an escalation point for project risks, process barriers, resource constraints, and cross-functional alignment issues

Job Requirements

Experience & Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related discipline required
• MBA, CPA, CMA, or Six Sigma/Lean certification preferred

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, finance transformation, shared services, controllership, project management, digital enablement, or related roles
• Experience leading complex cross-functional finance projects in a multinational corporate environment
• Demonstrated track record of driving finance transformation, process redesign, automation, system optimization, and sustainable business adoption
• Strong understanding of global finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Invoice-to-Pay, Invoice-to-Cash, Intercompany, Payroll, Statutory Accounting, and related finance operations
• Experience partnering with IT on ERP, workflow, automation, analytics, reporting, reconciliation, or finance systems initiatives
• Strong understanding of US GAAP, SOX, internal controls, audit requirements, and finance policy environments
• Experience operating in a shared services, global business services, or Global Process