Job Title: Director of Financial Systems Transformation
Job Description
The Director of Financial Systems Transformation leads the end-to-end finance systems solution, overseeing processes from transaction initiation through financial close and reporting. This role sets the strategic vision for finance data, reporting, and analytics, and ensures that global finance processes, systems, and tools align with enterprise priorities. The director partners closely with finance leadership, IT, and external implementation partners to design and deliver a scalable transaction-to-report model, drive finance transformation initiatives, and champion data and analytics as strategic assets for the organization.
Responsibilities
Serve as the senior accountable owner of the end-to-end finance systems solution, covering the full lifecycle from procure-to-pay (P2P), record-to-report (R2R), and order-to-cash (O2C) through financial close and reporting.
Provide strategic direction to a team of dotted-line process and functional owners, ensuring cross-vertical alignment and evaluating decisions for their downstream impact across the integrated finance solution.
Act as the senior escalation point for cross-vertical issues, design conflicts, and trade-offs spanning process, data, and reporting boundaries.
Represent the integrated finance systems solution to finance leadership and executive stakeholders, clearly communicating risks, opportunities, and progress.
Own the strategic vision for finance data and reporting, ensuring that data architecture, reporting frameworks, and analytics capabilities support upstream process design decisions across transactional domains.
Provide strategic direction and senior oversight to the Finance Data & Reporting Owner to ensure the data and reporting solution remains aligned with enterprise priorities and the integrated transaction-to-report model.
Champion data and analytics as strategic assets across the finance organization by partnering with finance leadership to define reporting priorities, KPI frameworks, and standards for evaluating financial reporting quality and usefulness.
Define and maintain the global finance process design framework, establishing standards for how processes are designed, documented, and governed across all legal entities and functional domains.
Own and communicate the finance systems solution roadmap, translating strategic business priorities into a sequenced, cross-vertical delivery plan in partnership with IT, finance leadership, and external implementation partners.
Provide senior subject matter expertise across the financial application portfolio, ensuring tool design and deployment decisions reflect enterprise architecture standards, long-term scalability, and the integrated transaction-to-report solution.
Lead business requirements definition at the program level for finance systems initiatives, ensuring requirements capture the full transaction-to-report scope and that cross-vertical dependencies are identified and resolved before configuration begins.
Serve as the finance program lead for ERP and financial system implementations, overseeing functional design governance, cross-workstream integration, and delivery partner performance.
Own user acceptance testing (UAT) governance for finance system implementations, ensuring test coverage spans the end-to-end solution and that sign-off reflects validated integration across process, configuration, and reporting layers.
Own the change management and adoption strategy for finance systems initiatives so that impacted users across all legal entities and functional roles are prepared for changes spanning the full transaction-to-report lifecycle.
Set direction and standards for finance training program design to support consistent, high-quality user adoption.
Lead user community communications, ensuring the finance organization receives timely, integrated messaging about system changes, enhancements, and go-live milestones.
Own the governance framework for finance system change requests, establishing intake, evaluation, and prioritization processes through which process and functional owners surface improvement opportunities to finance leadership.
Evaluate change requests for cross-vertical impact before prioritization, ensuring improvements in one domain, such as P2P workflow changes, are assessed for their effect on downstream data flows, reporting, and adjacent process areas.
Synthesize approved change requests into a coherent continuous improvement roadmap that balances tactical fixes with strategic enhancements in alignment with the broader finance systems solution roadmap.
Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and applicable laws, including interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; and addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Essential Skills
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive finance, accounting, or consulting experience.
At least 5 years of experience leading finance transformation initiatives in a complex, global environment.
Proven track record with ERP implementations such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, D365, or equivalent platforms.
Experience with consolidation and forecasting tools such as BPC, OneStream, Anaplan, or deFacto.
Demonstrated experience with data warehousing, finance system architecture, and ETL tools such as Informatica, Talend, or Azure Data Factory.
Strong background in financial planning, KPI design, and performance measurement frameworks.
Deep experience in financial analysis, financial reporting, and budgeting.
Hands-on experience across core finance process areas including order-to-cash (O2C), procure-to-pay (P2P), and record-to-report (R2R).
Proficiency in financial planning and analysis, financial modeling, and interpretation of financial statements.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for modeling, reporting, and data analysis.
Strong data analysis and project management capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
MBA or master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field preferred.
CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional certification strongly preferred.
Hands-on exposure to Python and AI/ML applications in finance preferred.
Experience with finance transformation programs involving Dynamics 365 (D365) and HighRadius is highly beneficial.
Experience working with or alongside external consulting or integration partners on large-scale transformation initiatives.
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex financial and technical concepts into clear, actionable messages for diverse audiences.
Proven ability to design and implement governance frameworks for finance systems, processes, and change management.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, global environment and manage multiple concurrent initiatives.
Demonstrated commitment to integrity, accountability, and collaborative problem-solving.
Work Environment
This role operates in a hybrid work environment based in Norwalk, CT, with four days per week onsite. The position sits within a corporate headquarters setting and collaborates closely with every function at the corporate office. The location is accessible to the South Norwalk train station, and parking expenses are covered. The organization is building out a dedicated transformation team and partners with an external integration firm during the transition. The culture emphasizes respect, integrity, accountability, and innovation, with a focus on transforming financial processes and systems to support world-class operations and guest experiences across a global portfolio.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Norwalk, CT.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $80.00 - $100.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: - Medical, dental & vision - Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital - 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available - Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) - Short and long-term disability - Health Spending Account (HSA) - Transportation benefits - Employee Assistance Program - Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Norwalk,CT.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jun 8, 2026.
About Aston Carter
Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® double diamond winner for both client and talent service.
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