Are you a strategic and transformative leader passionate about shaping the future of a company’s financial landscape? Burns McDonnell is seeking a finance professional with manager level experience to be a leader on our Finance Technology team to support the enterprise transformation initiative. This is a unique opportunity to drive high-impact change, guide strategic decisions, and ensure the successful evolution of our financial processes and systems.

This role will lead key discovery sessions with stakeholders across the organization and present findings and recommendations to leadership. This role will partner with Finance leadership ensuring that all solutions align with our strategic objectives and have a lasting, positive impact on the business.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead Strategic Finance Initiatives: Provides leadership within the Finance department in cross-functional enterprise transformation efforts. Leads efforts to facilitate key decisions by ensuring finance requirements, priorities, and strategic goals are central to the program's lifecycle.

Direct Software Evaluation Selection: Assist in leading the evaluation and selection process for new financial systems and tools. Define and own the evaluation criteria, guide the assessment of solution capabilities, and present the final business case and recommendations to executive leadership.

Contribute to Future-State Process Design: Spearhead the design and planning of future-state business processes across all key finance domains (e.g., Source to Pay, Record to Report, Contract to Close). Lead key discovery sessions to identify strategic opportunities, address pain points, and define desired outcomes. Responsibility to provide executives with key information for prioritizing and decision making.

Serve as Key Partner to Executive Leadership: Act as the primary liaison between the Finance organization, transformation teams, and executive stakeholders. Clearly and concisely communicate progress, risks, and strategic recommendations in executive-level presentations.

Drive Change and Solve Complex Problems: Champion a solution-oriented mindset to navigate ambiguity and complexity. Proactively identify and mitigate risks, and pivot strategies based on evolving business needs, new discoveries, or changes in scope.