Finance Transformation Director: AI-Driven FP&A Modernization

Conair LLC

Dolphin Cove (CT)

Hybrid

USD 176,000 - 264,000

Full time

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Job summary

Conair LLC in Stamford, CT is seeking a Director/Senior Director of Finance Transformation to modernize the finance operating model. You will turn fragmented processes, data, and tools into standardized, AI-enabled capabilities across FP&A, reporting, and governance.

You will own the multi-year roadmap, design scalable planning and profitability analytics, establish data governance, and lead change management to enable sustainable value realization across the Finance organization.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or a related field; MBA, CPA, CMA, or relevant transformation credential preferred.
12+ years of progressive experience across finance, FP&A, finance transformation, enterprise performance management, business intelligence, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated success leading complex finance transformation programs from design through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization.
Hands‑on understanding of planning, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis, data models, workflow design, and finance controls.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a multi-year finance transformation roadmap aligned to enterprise priorities, value creation goals, and the evolving finance operating model.
Standardize core FP&A and management reporting processes across business units and regions, including planning, forecasting, performance reviews, scenario analysis, and executive reporting.
Redesign finance workflows to eliminate low-value activity, clarify ownership and controls, reduce manual effort, and improve cycle time and data quality.
Lead the design and deployment of scalable planning, reporting, profitability, workflow, and analytics capabilities in partnership with IT and data teams.
Establish common data definitions, hierarchies, dimensions, governance, and reconciliation standards for management reporting and decision support.
Build practical automation and AI use cases for forecasting, variance analysis, management commentary, scenario modeling, anomaly detection, reconciliations, and self-service insight.
Create and prioritize a finance automation pipeline based on business value, feasibility, control requirements, and user adoption.
Partner with Commercial Finance to develop reusable profitability engines covering brands, categories, channels, customers, and SKUs.
Own transformation governance, including milestones, dependencies, benefits tracking, risks, decision rights, and executive steering updates.
Lead change management and adoption by defining new roles, training users, establishing process ownership, and measuring sustained use and outcomes.
Create a finance transformation center of excellence that provides standards, methods, templates, and delivery support without becoming an administrative project office.
Build internal capability so finance teams can use new data, tools, automation, and AI responsibly and independently.
Establish a consistent cost-benefit analysis methodology for technology, data, automation, and process solutions, including implementation and recurring costs, capacity released, risk reduction, payback period, ROI, and ownership of realized benefits.