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Sr Dir Finance Operations & Transformation

The Joint Commission
Villa Park, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025

Overview

Responsible for driving the evolution of the finance function and its operating model by identifying new opportunities to increase finance's impact through digitalization and redesigning the broader finance operating model. Balance a visionary mindset with a pragmatic approach to shape the priorities for transforming finance, ensuring they align with finance’s long-term goals. Foster effective collaboration with all relevant stakeholders, including the CFO; finance leaders and staff; and other influential functional leaders from the business, IT, MDOE, Legal, and the C-suite, to manage our drive toward finance's new operating model. These financial operations functions report to this role : payroll, vendor contract management, accounts payable and expense reimbursements, corporate travel, and invoicing and collections.

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Responsibilities

  • Co-create (with the CFO) a vision for continuous innovation and transformation.

Provide process change thought leadership and execution, building new capabilities to re-envision processes and operationalize new ways of working.

  • Continuously explore and evaluate innovative finance technology solutions, emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in finance that can transform finance work.
  • Ensure finance functional strategy aligns with overall business strategy, that short-term goals support long-term strategy, and transformation is seen as a top priority across the organization.
  • Build a roadmap to introduce and prudently adopt Agile development practices. Choose elements and features that align most effectively with the organization's goals.
  • Execute finance transformation initiatives :

    • Lead finance transformations by strategically prioritizing initiatives, fostering training and adoption, documenting current workflows, identifying and implementing process improvements, and developing objectives and key results (OKRs).

  • Perform expert assessment of resources required to execute transformation.
  • Drive process improvement and governance for enterprise-wide processes.
  • Lead finance operating model redesign :

    • Redesign the finance operating model based on the opportunities enabled by technology and automation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and best practices.

  • Collaborate with the CFO and the rest of the finance leadership team to develop precise, measurable guidelines and language to inform the direction of change for each element of the operating model.
  • Drive the implementation of the new operating model, managing change and ensuring seamless integration across the finance function.
  • Systematically manage the portfolio of finance transformation initiatives and drive coordinated change management across finance :

    • In coordination with other finance subfunctions, create and maintain the finance transformation project roadmap.

  • Identify and address interdependencies across the different projects within finance’s transformation project portfolio.
  • Trusted advisor to the CFO; collaborate with other finance leaders.
  • Minimum of 5 – 7 years of management experience with direct reports.
  • Leadership skills that foster a healthy, high performing work culture. Engage staff with clear expectations, direction and support. Motivate and influence work teams.

    • Qualifications

  • The level of knowledge equivalent to that ordinarily acquired through completion of an undergraduate degree in accounting or finance or a master’s degree in business administration.
  • 15 years of progressively more responsible accounting, finance, or operations management and leadership experience.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Exposure to financial systems and tools, such as ERP systems, EPM, BI tools and other data extraction and visualization tools with strong knowledge of emerging technologies and trends in finance, such as robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, and data analytics.
  • Project management methodology knowledge : Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g., agile, lean) and how to apply them to Finance value streams.
  • Strong leadership skills to provide vision and support to the finance team, mentor individuals, and develop high-performing talent.

    • The Joint Commission offers a comprehensive benefits package. For an overview of our benefits package, please visit our Joint Commission Career Page.

    This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by an employee assigned to this position. The description is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and abilities, and working conditions associated with this position. All requirements are subject to possible modification and reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

    USD $141,000.00 / year

    USD $195,000.00 / year

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