Director, Finance Systems

About the Opportunity

As the Director, Finance Systems, you will serve as the execution leader responsible for translating strategic vision into tangible system improvements across financial platforms. You will focus on driving end-to-end delivery of technical solutions, coordinating complex projects, and ensuring our financial systems operate efficiently, accurately, and are in alignment with business needs.

You will partner with Accounting, Procurement, Strategic Finance, Investments, Technology, and Talent to ensure these systems are fully leveraged to deliver maximum value. You will play a critical role in owning the system roadmaps—taking full responsibility for executing both immediate and long-term action plans. You will lead the investigation and implementation of new functionality, ensuring alignment with the needs and priorities of all major stakeholders. You will have a special focus on AI integration, ensuring our systems utilize the latest and greatest technologies to automate and innovate so Finance teams can work faster and most efficiently and produce more critical insights with ease. Teams will rely on you to build custom dashboards and maintain financial data integrity to help to drive business decisions. You will be responsible for developing enhanced reporting solutions. You will create and maintain a suite of staff-friendly resources to ensure system processes are clear and known to all users.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about technology, along with prioritizing and simplifying – implementing the most impactful things and finding powerful solutions for complex problems. The ideal candidate has an excellent ability to anticipate user needs, an obsession with data, and the ability to manage the technical and people components of projects with attention to detail and speed.

In this role, you will:

Prioritize and implement technical solutions to meet business needs (40%)

• Translate functional needs into solutions, ensuring that our solutions meet business needs and are scalable, repeatable, automated, leverage AI and new and emerging technologies, etc.
• Project manage the implementation of new features and enhancements, overseeing configuration, testing, deployment, and change management
• Engage and manage external consultants, as needed
• Manage the intake and prioritization of product/systems requests, working closely with stakeholders to ensure we prioritize the most impactful work

Maintain and optimize system from a technological and usage perspective (25%)

• Own business process enhancements of modules to support optimal user experience
• Develop and monitor key performance metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of solutions and identify areas for improvement
• Proactively analyze, identify, and correct technical problems and deficiencies
• Work with Technology to support the integrative and administrative needs
• Create and maintain detailed documentation and user guides on major system tasks, reports, etc.

Execute comprehensive data/dashboard solutions for the Finance functions (20%)

• Serve as the “go to” to develop reporting and data solutions within system
• Design and implement comprehensive dashboard solutions within system to provide actionable insights and support decision-making for Procurement, Accounting, and Investments

Lead roadmap development and drive execution across teams (15%)

• Develop and maintain the finance product roadmaps in collaboration with functional Finance leadership, related SMEs, and Technology to optimize system use
• Provide status reports and updates to Leadership, as needed

About You

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience supporting finance systems, ERP platforms, financial technology, or finance transformation initiatives.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing teams and cross-functional projects.
• Experience leading ERP implementations, system upgrades, or large-scale finance transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial operations, and financial reporting processes.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership and business stakeholders.
• Strong project management, change management, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience supporting organizations with multiple locations and complex operational structures.
• Experience with cloud-based ERP platforms and financial reporting solutions.
• PMP, CPA, CMA, or relevant technology certifications.