This role serves as the main bridge between Finance leadership, process owners, and AI/technology teams. It ensures AI solutions address real Finance problems, align with enterprise standards, and deliver measurable business impact. The role acts as both strategic owner and hands-on enablement leader, from vision through deployment and sustained value delivery.We offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $X-Y at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:What You Will do in This Role:
Finance AI Vision & Strategy
- Own and articulate the AI vision for Global Finance, aligned with Dematic’s enterprise digital, data, and automation strategy
- Define, maintain, and evolve the roadmap for financial artificial intelligence, balancing near-term impact with long-term capability development
- Translate executive leadership priorities into a prioritized portfolio of AI-enabled initiatives
- Continuously assess emerging AI capabilities and their applicability to Finance use cases
AI Use Case Identification & Business Value
- Partner with Finance teams (FP&A, Function Controlling, Project Management, Accounting, etc.) to identify AI-ready opportunities
- Translate Finance workflows, decision processes, and challenges into clear, actionable AI use cases
- Develop case studies and benefit analysis models, including efficiency gains, cost savings, risk reduction, and decision-quality improvements
- Support prioritization of initiatives based on value, feasibility, risk, and business readiness
Business Partnership & Enablement
- Act as the primary liaison between Finance process owners and AI technical teams, ensuring shared understanding of requirements and constraints
- Ensure Finance domain knowledge, controls, and business logic are embedded into AI solution development
- Advocate for practical, usable solutions that resolve real problems and fit Finance ways of working
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Own AI governance for Finance, including data privacy, model risk management, audit readiness, and regulatory compliance
- Ensure AI solutions align with financial controls, internal governance standards, and external regulations
- Establish Finance AI standards, policies, and operating models for responsible and ethical AI use
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, IT, and Internal Audit to ensure transparency and control
Delivery Oversight, Testing & Adoption
- Coordinate pilot programs and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Finance end users
- Validate outputs, capture feedback, and ensure solutions meet business and control requirements
- Lead change management, training, and AI literacy across the Finance organization
- Develop user materials, job aids, and communication plans to support adoption and behavioral change
Value Realization & Ongoing Performance Management
- Define and analyze key performance indicators and value realization metrics for Finance AI initiatives
- Assess live AI solutions to ensure continued performance, accuracy, and adoption
- Surface issues, risks, and improvement opportunities to technical and Finance leadership
- Provide regular executive updates to leadership on progress, benefits, and roadmap
Technology & Architecture Alignment
- Partner closely with IT, Digital, and Data teams on AI architecture, platforms, security, and scalability
- Ensure Finance AI solutions leverage enterprise-aligned, secure, and reusable technology foundations
- Balance innovation speed with sustainability, control, and integration
What We Are Looking For:
- 7+ years expertise in Finance, Finance Transformation, FP&A, Controllership, Analytics, or Digital Strategy roles
- Strong understanding of Finance processes, controls, and regulatory environments
- Proven track record of translating business needs into structured requirements and initiatives
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across Finance or technology teams
- Strong executive communication, business partnership, and influencing skills
- Experience driving analytics, automation, AI, or digital transformation initiatives
- Familiarity with AI / ML concepts and data platforms (hands-on technical development not required)
- Experience developing business cases and tracking return on investment
- Exposure to ERP platforms such as SAP
- Experience in global, matrixed organizations
- Organizational change or transformation leadership experience
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Skills Required
- 7+ years expertise in Finance, Finance Transformation, FP&A, Controllership, Analytics, or Digital Strategy roles
- Strong understanding of Finance processes, controls, and regulatory environments
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across Finance or technology teams
- Strong executive communication, business partnership, and influencing skills
- Experience driving analytics, automation, AI, or digital transformation initiatives
- Familiarity with AI / ML concepts and data platforms
- Experience developing business cases and tracking return on investment
- Exposure to ERP platforms such as SAP
- Experience in global, matrixed organizations
- Organizational change or transformation leadership experience
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
