Finance Transformation Lead - 12-Month Contract (Hybrid)

Mars Incorporated; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Parking

Free Bag of Premium Pet Food monthly

Education assistance

Job summary

Champion Petfoods is expanding and seeks a Finance Transformation Manager (12-month contract) to lead the design and delivery of finance transformation initiatives across Controllership, Finance Business Partners, and IT teams. This hybrid role sits in Edmonton, Louisville, or Nashville with 3 in-person days.

Responsibilities include developing a multi-year roadmap, redesigning core finance processes, and ensuring governance, controls, and benefits realization across finance operations.

Qualifications

• University degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of progressive finance, controllership, finance operations, or transformation experience, including leadership of complex cross-functional initiatives.
• CPA, CMA, ACCA, MBA, or recognized project/change-management certification (Preferred).
• Demonstrated knowledge of core finance processes, US GAAP, internal controls, close and reporting requirements, and audit-ready documentation.
• Experience implementing or optimizing ERP and finance technology solutions; SAP and enterprise performance-management experience are preferred.
• Strong capabilities in process design, business analysis, data governance, automation, reporting, and continuous-improvement methodologies.
• Proven project and portfolio management skills, including business-case development, prioritization, dependency management, risk mitigation, and benefits tracking.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the ability to align stakeholders across functions, regions, and organizational levels.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a multi-year finance transformation roadmap aligned with business strategy, controllership priorities, and enterprise technology direction.
• Lead end-to-end redesign and standardization of finance processes, including record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, planning, reporting, and master data.
• Direct cross-functional transformation projects from business case and requirements through design, testing, deployment, stabilization, and post-implementation review.
• Partner with Digital/Technology teams and service providers to implement and optimize ERP, consolidation, reporting, workflow, automation, and analytics solutions.
• Establish project governance, priorities, milestones, resource plans, risks, dependencies, and executive reporting for the finance transformation portfolio.
• Embed effective internal controls, segregation of duties, audit trails, and policy compliance into redesigned processes and system solutions.
• Define transformation KPIs and benefits-realization measures; track cycle time, quality, cost, control, adoption, and capacity improvements.
• Lead change management, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption activities to sustain new ways of working.
• Facilitate process-mapping, root-cause analysis, requirements gathering, and solution-design workshops with finance and business teams.
• Build continuous-improvement capability across Finance by coaching process owners, documenting standards, and maintaining a prioritized improvement pipeline.

Job description

Champion Petfoods is expanding and seeks a Finance Transformation Manager (12-month contract) to lead the design and delivery of finance transformation initiatives across Controllership, Finance Business Partners, and IT teams. This hybrid role sits in Edmonton, Louisville, or Nashville with 3 in-person days.

Responsibilities include developing a multi-year roadmap, redesigning core finance processes, and ensuring governance, controls, and benefits realization across finance operations.