JOB SUMMARY

Senior Director, Finance Shared Services
Remote-US-Ireland

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
• 10+ years of experience leading large accounting and finance teams (preferably, including Payroll)
• Substantial experience managing offshore operations and successfully delivering outcomes from a shared service model primarily based overseas (preferably India).
• Knowledge of fundamental accounting principles, payroll (and related tax) regulations, and internal controls concepts, necessary to oversee monthly accounting closes, statutory financial reporting, and global payroll and commissions processing and reporting.
• Knowledge of accounting, payroll management and commissions systems and solutions.
• Experience partnering with IT and other functions to successfully implement new systems
• Proven success in driving finance process improvement, efficiencies, and simplification
• Demonstrated success partnering with stakeholders in a complex, highly matrixed, and global environment.
• Ability to coach and manage talent across large teams to achieve outstanding performance.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with all levels in the organization.
• Global mindset with cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity.

EDUCATION

IC - Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience. Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience.

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• Oversees the design and delivery (including the accuracy, compliance, timeliness) of key accounting and finance services / activities across the Company, including monthly accounting close activities, global payrolls, commissions calculations, vendor payments, and statutory financial statement filings.
• Sponsors and champions continuous improvement projects focused on process excellence, efficiency and/or cost reduction.
• Drives or supports strategic initiatives, such as new system and technology implementations and enhancements, external service provider optimizations, and policy changes.
• Partners with the Business Transformation office to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
• Contributes to M&A activities, including integration of finance operations for acquired companies.
• Provides information and responds to inquiries from leadership specific to payroll, commissions, expense reimbursement and vendor payments.
• Monitors and improves key performance metrics to measure quality and efficiency of shared services processes and outputs.
• Ensures that structures, responsibilities, and geographical locations of teams align with organization objectives to support responsiveness and appropriate escalation for service issues.
• Manages staff performance and development, including through establishing individual and team goals, coaching and counseling, training, mentoring and career planning.
• Establishes and maintains strong, collaborative relationships with leaders and stakeholders within and outside the CFO organization.
• Partners with Corporate Legal, Tax and others to keep up to date on new and changing regulations and legislation impacting 1) payroll design, delivery and reporting, and 2) statutory financial reporting requirements.
• Ensures an effective internal control environment including maintenance of SOX documentation.