Senior Director, Finance Transformation & Strategy

Hines; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 162,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Hines is seeking a Senior Director, Finance Strategy & Operations to lead the ongoing transformation of Finance, aligning investment decisions, priorities, and execution capacity across the organization.

You will standardize processes, accelerate ERP alignment, automate data and AI capabilities, build governance, and develop leadership across Finance while delivering measurable benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years in Finance transformation.
• Enterprise operating-model and process redesign experience.
• ERP and data modernization experience.
• Shared services experience.
• Demonstrated rigorous value realization and benefits tracking.
• Proven executive stakeholder influence and partnership capability.
• Large-scale change leadership and transformation execution capacity.
• Strong Finance and controls foundation with deep understanding of Finance operations.
• Excellent communication, judgment, and influencing skills with ability to operate at executive level.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on operational execution.

Responsibilities

• Define the target operating model, business case, and multi-year roadmap.
• Align priorities across Accounting, Finance Operations, Capital Markets, Tax, Technology, and the business.
• Standardize end-to-end processes, clarify global process ownership, and optimize shared services and centers of excellence.
• Accelerate ERP alignment, automation, data and AI capabilities that simplify work and improve insight.
• Establish governance, manage dependencies, resource constraints and risks, and track delivery, adoption, and benefits against KPIs.
• Build adaptability, change leadership, process ownership, and digital fluency across Finance; use project and interim expertise where needed to accelerate delivery without disrupting day-to-day priorities.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive stakeholder influence

Change management

Finance transformation

Communication & influence

Operational execution

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

ERP

Data modernization

Job description

Hines is seeking a Senior Director, Finance Strategy & Operations to lead the ongoing transformation of Finance, aligning investment decisions, priorities, and execution capacity across the organization.

You will standardize processes, accelerate ERP alignment, automate data and AI capabilities, build governance, and develop leadership across Finance while delivering measurable benefits.