Global Head of Finance Systems and Data

Role Overview

The Global Head of Finance Systems and Data will be responsible for developing and maintaining the three-to-five-year Global Finance business capability plan, identifying dependencies, evaluating priorities, and aligning investment decisions with Finance’s strategic objectives.

What You Will Do

Key responsibilities include representing Finance in decisions concerning the optimization and evolution of core Finance platforms, monitoring delivery against agreed plans, and ensuring that business requirements and expected outcomes are achieved.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have significant experience leading Finance systems, data, or transformation initiatives in a complex, global organization, ideally within insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of combined experience in finance operations, FP&A, enterprise resource planning or finance technology transformation.
• A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, data analytics, or technology is required.
• Professional accounting or finance certifications (such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CA, or CPA) preferred.
• Significant experience leading Finance systems, data, or transformation initiatives in a complex, global organization, ideally within insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry.
• Strong understanding of core Finance processes, including financial close and consolidation, management and regulatory reporting, planning and forecasting, and related control requirements.
• Demonstrated experience defining business capabilities and requirements, developing multi-year roadmaps, prioritizing investment, and overseeing delivery of enterprise Finance platforms in partnership with IT.
• Experience defining and governing Finance data models, reporting dimensions, hierarchies, mappings, master data, and end-to-end data lineage.
• Practical experience identifying, prioritizing, and governing automation or AI use cases, with a clear focus on measurable business value, scalability, auditability, and risk management.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across Finance, IT and Data; translate complex requirements into clear priorities; and drive alignment across global teams.
• A track record of sponsoring or leading cross-functional change initiatives from business case and prioritization through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization.

Benefits

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Life Insurance, AD&D, Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program), and more
• Leave Benefits: Paid holidays, annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state /local paid leave where required), Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Other leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, Adoption, Maternity, Military, Primary & Non-Primary Caregiver)
• Retirement Benefits: Contributory Savings Plan (401k)

Tagged as: Data Analysis, Forecasting