Senior Manager, AI Enablement Enterprise FP&A

Socket.dev; North Carolina; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VF is seeking a Sr. Manager, AI Enablement for Enterprise FP&A to drive AI projects from requirements to deployment and adoption across brands and regions.

You will partner with the VP to translate FP&A challenges into AI-enabled solutions, teaching and guiding teams while delivering hands-on capability. In this role you will design prototypes, validate outputs, and build reusable components, ensuring governance and compliance with internal controls and data readiness across the finance

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in AI enablement or enterprise FP&A.
• Bachelor degree required; strong communication and teaching abilities.
• Ability to translate business problems into AI-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities

• Execute AI projects from requirements through deployment and adoption.
• Translate FP&A problems into clear solution requirements and success metrics.
• Collaborate with Digital Technology on architecture, data access and security.
• Manage workstreams across planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting.
• Provide regular status updates, risks, and decisions; escalate issues promptly.
• Build prototypes, maintain prompt libraries, and document processes.
• Deliver governance with AI usage standards and data readiness.

Job description

What will you do?

A day in the life of a Senior Manager, AI Enablement Enterprise FP&Aat VF looks a little like this.

As the Sr. Manager, AI Enablement, Enterprise FP&A, you will serve as the subject matter expert who turns artificial intelligence capability into working solutions for the Enterprise FP&A organization. Partnering directly with the VP, Enterprise FP&A, you will execute the AI projects prioritized by finance leadership, taking each from requirements through prototype, deployment, and adoption in close partnership with Digital Technology (DT). Equally important, you will bring the team along, building AI literacy and hands‑on capability across FP&A so that these tools become part of how the organization works rather than the specialty of one person. This is an individual contributor role that delivers through hands‑on building, teaching, and influence across brands, regions, and the enterprise.

Let’sbreakdownthat day-in-the-life a bit more.

AI Project Execution and Delivery

• Execute AI projects prioritized by the VP, Enterprise FP&A and finance leadership, owning delivery from requirements through deployment and adoption
• Translate FP&A business problems into clear solution requirements, scope, and success measures, and manage each project to committed timelines
• Partner with DT on architecture, data access, integration, security review, and the path from prototype to supported production solution
• Manage project workstreams across planning, forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and business partnering use cases
• Provide regular status updates on progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions required, escalating issues promptly
• Measure and report realized results after deployment, and recommend where solutions should be extended, adjusted, or retired

Solution Design and Hands-On Build

• Design and build working prototypes that demonstrate value quickly, including AI-assisted analysis, narrative generation, document and data extraction, and agentic workflows
• Test and validate AI outputs, including accuracy checks, benchmarking against current process baselines, and ongoing performance monitoring
• Develop and maintain prompt libraries, reusable components, and process documentation so solutions can be extended by others
• Troubleshoot issues with deployed solutions and coordinate resolution with DT and vendors as required

Capability Sharing and Team Enablement

• Build AI literacy across Enterprise FP&A through training sessions, office hours, playbooks, demonstrations, and hands‑on coaching tailored to finance workflows
• Share new tools, techniques, and practical use cases with the team as capabilities evolve, translating what is possible into what is useful for FP&A
• Cultivate and support a network of champions and power users across brands and regions to extend capability beyond a single individual
• Drive adoption of deployed solutions, monitoring usage, gathering feedback, and addressing capability gaps and resistance
• Communicate wins, lessons learned, and practical guidance to finance leadership and teams in clear, non-technical terms

Governance Adherence and Data Readiness

• Deliver all solutions in compliance with VF AI usage standards, information security requirements, and internal control expectations
• Apply required human-in-the-loop review protocols and maintain documentation and audit trails for AI-assisted outputs used in reporting
• Surface risks encountered during delivery, including data privacy, confidentiality, model accuracy, and over-reliance, to DT, Internal Controls, and finance leadership
• Identify where data quality, structure, or access limits what AI can deliver, and partner with the appropriate owners on remediation

What do you need to succeed?

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skillsyou’llneed to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your7+ years of experience and professional achievements.

The foundation skills you will need in this position are:

• Bachelor