Finance Operations Director

As the Finance Operations Director, you will be responsible for enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function, ensuring optimal utilization of all resources to increase return while minimizing risk to the Company. You should have a proven track record of driving finance transformation through successful achievement of OKRs, including developing, streamlining, and optimizing processes and systems. Candidates with strong experience in Internal Audit and SOX, especially in a leadership capacity, are preferred. You will need strong managerial, analytical, and system skills, a partnership orientation for working with business colleagues, and the ability to effectively manage and drive key finance initiatives and projects to achieve superior results in both the short and long term. Key responsibilities include: - Partnering with finance leaders to assess and analyze organizational knowledge and skill gaps, designing and driving change management through new development and implementation of finance enablement programs and initiatives to increase effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function. - Establishing effectiveness and efficiency reporting and measurements, generating training materials and reference documents, and conducting quarterly employee training to increase productivity and quality of output while ensuring satisfactory compliance and minimizing risk to the Company. - Leading the improvement of the internal audit and SOX framework in collaboration with the Internal Audit and SOX team, providing recommendations to manage and minimize risk to the company, and executing accepted recommendations and other enhancements. - Driving effective and creative use of information technology, coupled with other institutional resources, to bring about greater organizational effectiveness and the advancement of business systems supporting various functions. - Proactively partnering, developing, and maintaining effective working relationships and collaborations with finance team members and leaders across the organization to identify, understand, and address key business needs to support growth at scale while managing risk. - Systematically anticipating, recognizing, and controlling risks, ensuring data integrity, and measuring performance over time using metrics, data, and analysis to improve performance. - Project managing key finance projects, following up with relevant parties to ensure timely submission of deliverables in standardized formats, and establishing effective priority-setting processes for major projects and allocation of resources to achieve schedule and budget objectives. - Assisting in building and managing a high-performance finance function and serving as the social chair in managing team bonding events, budget, and expenses. Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in finance or related discipline. - Minimum 10 years of experience in finance operations with a demonstrated track record of ensuring data integrity, measuring, tracking, and trending performance data to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function. - Strong knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and internal control frameworks (e.g., COSO). Experience leading Internal Audit and/or SOX functions in the past is a plus. - Systems expertise: highly proficient with NetSuite, Salesforce, Anaplan, and MS Office applications.,