Director, Financial Planning Tech & Strategy

Walgreens Co.; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens Co. in Deerfield, IL seeks a seasoned Director to lead strategy, implementation, and ownership of our financial planning technology.

You will align Finance, Technology, and Business stakeholders to deliver scalable planning solutions for enterprise forecasting, budgeting, and reporting. The role demands deep expertise in software implementation, financial planning, and cross-functional collaboration across Merchandising, Accounting, Pharmacy, and Capital Planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 6 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management or audit.
• At least 3 years of experience in financial system implementation or strategy design.
• Experience diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and implementing strategies to resolve problems.
• Experience utilizing reporting tools and implementations, such as Hyperion.
• Experience with MS Office Suite
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 3 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to 15% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Responsibilities

• Develop strategy for the Service Delivery Model working with customers enterprise wide and establishing best practices to drive continuous improvement across the general accounting processes.
• Develop the vision of financial data hierarchy to support Accounting, Finance, Tax, and Legal teams and for driving all aspects of IT and FT&I strategic projects for General Accounting.
• Partner through collaboration within the Accounting division and Chief Financial Officers to ensure financial reporting requirements are met through the use of efficient and effective reporting solutions.
• Ensure internal accounting controls are part all system design and hierarchy and through evaluates procedural changes
• Identify and recommends process and systems improvement and Service Provider and Accounting Division action plans and leads implementation of approved projects.
• Create strategy, implements recommendations and provides oversight of user access/security levels and systems changes according to WAG procedures and policies.
• Develops system usage training materials for all employees. Trains WAG end users on general ledger systems usage including journal entries, reporting requirements and other related processes. Helps deliver end-user satisfaction with the process
• Provides integration support and strategy for newly acquired businesses and related accounting processes
• Develops, monitors, coaches and manages staff ensuring the development of employees through orientation, training, establishing objectives, communication of rules, constructive discipline. Builds employee morale, motivation and loyalty.

Skills

Financial leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

IT / Financial systems

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

High School Diploma/GED

Tools

Hyperion

MS Office

Power BI

SAP Tools

Planning Analytics

Cognos

Job description

Walgreens Co. in Deerfield, IL seeks a seasoned Director to lead strategy, implementation, and ownership of our financial planning technology.

You will align Finance, Technology, and Business stakeholders to deliver scalable planning solutions for enterprise forecasting, budgeting, and reporting. The role demands deep expertise in software implementation, financial planning, and cross-functional collaboration across Merchandising, Accounting, Pharmacy, and Capital Planning.