Director, Finance Transformation – Record to Report

Role Overview

The Director, Finance Transformation – Record to Report will lead the Finance workstream of Applied’s SAP S/4HANA transformation for the Record to Report Key Process Chain. This leader will partner with the R2R Global Process Owner and Global Process Leaders to design the company’s future-state close, reporting, costing, and control environment.

What You Will Do

The Director will own the R2R transformation agenda end to end, leading a team of direct reports alongside matrixed finance subject-matter experts and system integrator resources. Key responsibilities include process design and transformation leadership, controls, compliance, and technical accounting, automation, data, and AI enablement, and program delivery and governance.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, ERP-enabled transformation, or finance process and controls, including delivery in a top-tier advisory firm or a comparable in-house transformation organization. Demonstrated ownership of a Finance workstream on a full-scope SAP program is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Business or a related discipline
• 12+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, ERP-enabled transformation, or finance process and controls
• Hands-on functional depth in Record-to-Report, including close and consolidation, financial and management reporting, intercompany, product costing, and reconciliation
• Strong controls background spanning SOX and ICFR, control design and automation, and audit readiness
• Proven ability to lead large-scale finance transformation, process improvement, systems implementation, or analytics initiatives with quantified outcomes
• Deep working knowledge of enterprise ERP environments, particularly SAP (ECC and/or S/4HANA), including financial data structures, the code block, cost center, and profit center hierarchies, and reporting extraction
• Hands-on experience with finance automation and close platforms such as BlackLine, receivables automation such as HighRadius, invoice capture such as OpenText VIM, SAP RAR, and planning or consolidation tooling
• Strong working knowledge of AI and automation applications for enterprise finance functions, together with a practical understanding of the data quality, governance, and control requirements these tools demand
• Experience developing and translating requirements in an agile or hybrid delivery model, including user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog management, and user acceptance testing
• Experience supporting senior executives and influencing high-level strategic and operational decisions, including CFO- and Controller-level stakeholders and steering-committee forums
• Experience in the semiconductor, advanced technology, capital equipment, industrial, manufacturing, or other complex global industries strongly preferred, particularly environments with configure-to-order or engineer-to-order complexity

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Bonus and stock award program
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• PTO
• Retirement plan
• Learning budget
• Parental leave
• Wellness programs
• Visa/relocation support
• Remote flexibility
• Stipends
• Bonus/commission