Transformation Finance Lead: Value Realization & AI

McKesson Corporation; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson Corporation seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to shape and measure the financial impact of the AIM28 transformation program and other strategic initiatives. This highly visible role will lead value-realization methodology, investment governance, and executive reporting across a portfolio of transformation initiatives.

The ideal candidate partners across Finance, Technology, and Business teams to ensure investments deliver measurable outcomes while advancing AI-enabled finance

Qualifications

• Recognized finance transformation expertise.
• Senior stakeholder influence across Finance, Technology, and business.
• Advanced business case leadership for complex investments.
• Practical AI and automation leadership in finance workflows.
• Comfort partnering with technical counterparts to define requirements.
• Executive presence to present to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Establish and govern AIM28 Finance value-realization methodology, including benefit definitions, measurement rules, financial validation standards, and decision‑ready reporting logic.
• Lead financial benefit tracing from AIM28 Big Bet‑level value claims to actual P&L impact by product, segment, and customer where applicable, ensuring alignment with the books owned by Business Finance teams.
• Serve as the Finance escalation point for complex discrepancies between reported AIM28 value and business‑unit financial results, recommending resolution paths and governance improvements.
• Lead development, refinement, and governance of investment business cases for new and in‑flight AIM28 initiatives, partnering with McKesson Technology, Big Bet business leads, Business Finance, and the AIM28 Modernization Office.
• Independently pressure‑test assumptions behind proposed investments, including cost, timing, benefit sizing, operational readiness, risk, and confidence of realization before recommendations reach Finance leadership.
• Translate complex technology and business proposals into financial narratives, investment recommendations, and executive decision materials that enable disciplined prioritization and funding decisions.
• Define AIM28 financial reporting strategy and requirements in partnership with the AIM28 BIE resource, translating value methodology, metric definitions, and governance rules into scalable dashboards and automated reporting.
• Act as the senior finance bridge between Big Bet business teams, Technology, analytics partners, and Finance leadership, ensuring reporting solutions reflect the right financial logic, controls, and decision needs.
• Establish quality‑control routines for validating dashboard output, benefit reporting, and executive materials before senior leadership review.
• Champion practical adoption of enterprise AI assistants and automation tools to improve Finance productivity, business case development, insight generation, reconciliation support, and executive narrative drafting.
• Identify, pilot, and scale AI‑enabled workflows for recurring finance activities, including data pulls, reconciliations, variance explanations, initiative tracking, and first‑draft leadership materials.
• Partner with Technology and analytics stakeholders to explore AI agents, automation patterns, and governed workflow solutions purpose‑built for transformation finance use cases.
• Serve as the lead Finance IC and day‑to‑day strategic partner to the Sr. Director, Finance (AIM28), driving cross‑functional workstreams, decision readiness, action tracking, and executive review preparation.
• Lead Finance support for the MBR cadence, four‑gate sign‑off process, investment prioritization discussions, and executive presentations with rigorous, well‑sourced financial analysis.
• Proactively identify financial, operational, data‑quality, and governance risks; recommend mitigation actions; and influence stakeholders to resolve issues before they affect leadership decisions or value commitments.
• "What You Bring" section items are summarized in the Skills & Descriptions above.

Skills

Finance transformation expertise

Senior stakeholder influence

Advanced business case leadership

Practical AI and automation leadership

Executive communication

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Copilot

Claude

Job description

McKesson Corporation seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to shape and measure the financial impact of the AIM28 transformation program and other strategic initiatives. This highly visible role will lead value-realization methodology, investment governance, and executive reporting across a portfolio of transformation initiatives.

The ideal candidate partners across Finance, Technology, and Business teams to ensure investments deliver measurable outcomes while advancing AI-enabled finance