Senior Director of Finance

The Senior Director of the Finance Transformation Office is an experienced strategic transformation leader responsible for designing, executing, and governing CSC’s corporate finance and technology-led transformation initiatives, reporting to Finance Executive. This role will drive modernization across financial systems, processes, and operating models to improve efficiency, transparency, and decision-making. Working closely with finance and business unit leaders, and partnering across a complex matrix of finance, technology, and business stakeholders, the Senior Director will build alignment, drive shared accountability, and accelerate adoption of transformation initiatives through maturity and scalability. The Senior Director will proactively identify transformation risks, remove barriers to execution, and drive practical enterprise-wide solutions that balance business needs, operational priorities, and long- term transformation objectives. 

Some of the things you will being doing:

Strategy and roadmap

• Set a multi-year finance transformation strategy tied to CSC's growth and scalability goals and keep it current as priorities shift.
• Drive alignment between finance transformation and enterprise transformation initiatives so priorities, dependencies, and investments stay coordinated.
• Build and prioritize the initiative portfolio across all Finance Operations functions, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Reporting, using clear value cases (cost, cycle time, risk, insight).
• Advise the CFO and finance leadership on where automation, AI, and other emerging technologies will change how finance works, and where they won't pay back.

Delivery and governance

• Run the FTO portfolio end to end: scope, budget, timeline, resourcing, and value realization and benefits tracking after go-live.
• Lead multi-year programs spanning process redesign, ERP and EPM implementations and operating model changes such as shared services or centers of excellence.
• Establish finance process governance across the enterprise, and program governance that speeds decisions: process ownership standards, steering committees, stage gates, and clear escalation paths.
• Lead risk management across the transformation portfolio, identifying, escalating, and mitigating delivery, control, and stakeholder alignment risks.
• Standardize finance performance measurement and reporting, with consistent KPIs to track transformation outcomes.
• Build a single, trusted finance data foundation and govern data quality and data management practices so reporting, planning, and analytics run on consistent definitions.
• Make sure every change strengthens the control environment and stays audit-ready.

Change, adoption, and innovation

• Own change management and communications so new processes and tools are adopted, not just deployed, driving commitment and accountability across a diverse stakeholder landscape
• Build finance's capability to work in new ways through training, playbooks, and super-user networks, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, piloting emerging technologies and scaling what works.

Team

• Oversee and manage the full FTO team across business, technology, and PMO functions.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of transformation leads, global business process owners (GBPOs), business analysts, and project managers; build enterprise transformation capabilities; develop the next generation of finance transformation talent, foster strong partnerships across Finance, Technology, and Business functions

Lead though ambiguity and completing priorities, establishing clarity, alignment, and momentum across complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives.

What technical experience, skills and qualifications do you need?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or related field (Master’s or MBA preferred).
• 15+ years of progressive experience in finance, finance systems, or finance consulting, including at least 7 years leading finance transformation programs.
• A track record delivering end-to-end large-scale finance transformation (for example, an ERP or EPM implementation, or shared services build) in a global, multi-entity, matrixed organization, with demonstrated, measurable business value.
• Deep working knowledge of core finance processes, including record-to-report, planning and forecasting, consolidation, and financial controls, and how they run in systems such as Oracle or SAP.
• Experience implementing process governance frameworks and managing value realization and benefits tracking.
• Proven ability to build enterprise transformation capabilities and teams, and to manage teams across locations, remote settings, and levels of seniority.
• Enough fluency in modern finance technology (cloud ERP, EPM, automation, data platforms) to shape architecture decisions alongside Enterprise Technology. Fair understanding of enterprise architecture, data modernization, Analytics and agile frameworks.
• Proven change leadership: you have led finance operating model redesign and organizational change, moved a finance organization to new ways of working and can point to the adoption results.
• Executive presence and influence: strong stakeholder management skills, experience presenting to executive and board-level audiences, and the ability to frame trade-offs for a CFO, SVP, and steering committee while earning trust from the teams doing the work.

Preferred qualifications: 

• CPA, CA, CMA, MBA  
• Big Four or finance-transformation consulting experience, paired with in-house delivery.
• Experience integrating acquired entities onto a common finance platform.

*At CSC, compensation decisions are dependent on a number of factors including job location and the knowledge and experience of each individual. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $229,640.53 to $250,089.82.

**This role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship (e.g., H‑1B, TN, E‑3) now or in the future.

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