Senior Manager, Strategic Finance Transformation and FP&A

Job Description

A great UHY client is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance Transformation and FP&A . The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of progressive finance transformation and FP&A experience, a proven track record leading complex systems implementations and cross-functional initiatives, and strong financial analysis and process improvement capabilities.

The Senior Manager, Strategic Finance Transformation and FP&A role is a remote position. This is a client direct hire position.

Senior Manager, Strategic Finance Transformation and FP&A Responsibilities

• Lead finance transformation initiatives from planning through implementation, delivering measurable results and sustainable business value.
• Manage requests for proposals (RFPs) for finance systems, tools, and service providers, including defining requirements, evaluating vendors, scoring proposals, and presenting recommendations to executive leadership.
• Oversee the implementation of new systems, tools, and workflows, ensuring delivery meets business requirements, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Manage relationships with vendors and implementation partners to ensure deliverables align with transformation objectives.
• Support the development of scalable operating models through shared services, centralized support, and globally standardized processes.
• Drive adoption of new systems and processes through stakeholder engagement, communication, training, and change management.
• Evaluate and redesign end-to-end finance workflows to reduce cycle times, improve accuracy, and enhance service delivery.
• Standardize financial policies, procedures, and workflows across teams, functions, and regions.
• Identify automation opportunities to reduce manual work, increase productivity, and support organizational growth.
• Partner with FP&A on budgeting, forecasting, expense management, financial planning, and performance analysis.
• Develop financial insights, business cases, and recommendations using operational drivers and financial data to support strategic decisions.
• Analyze cost drivers, headcount trends, vendor spending, and operating metrics to identify cost savings and margin improvement opportunities.
• Improve financial reporting, dashboards, and analysis to increase visibility into performance and support actionable decision-making.
• Collaborate with Finance and IT to implement and enhance financial systems, reporting platforms, and digital workflows.
• Develop and maintain a finance technology roadmap aligned with business priorities, operational needs, and future growth.
• Establish and monitor KPIs to measure transformation progress, process efficiency, financial performance, and business outcomes.
• Evaluate opportunities to leverage automation, AI-enabled tools, and modern finance technologies to improve operational effectiveness.

Senior Manager, Strategic Finance Transformation and FP&A Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related discipline required.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, operational finance, FP&A, controllership support, shared services, procure-to-pay, or related finance leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale initiatives, cross-functional programs, process improvements, and financial systems implementations.
• Strong understanding of finance operations, process optimization, financial analysis, and collaboration with FP&A teams.
• Experience managing stakeholders across business functions and supporting transformation initiatives from strategy through execution.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, project management, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex financial and technical concepts to executive leadership.
• Experience with financial systems, reporting platforms, dashboard automation, and data analytics.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, influence stakeholders, and deliver results in a complex, evolving environment.
• Master’s degree in business administration or a related discipline preferred.
• Expertise in operational finance, procure-to-pay, FP&A collaboration, vendor management, KPI development, and process improvement preferred.
• Experience with global finance transformation, shared services models, change management, and emerging finance technologies preferred.

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UHY Advisors' Resource Solutions Group provides clients with accomplished professionals to support finance, accounting, internal audit and tax teams. Whether it is permanent placement, project work, loaned staff support or business process outsourcing–we are ready to meet your needs.

Our team has extensive experience with a wide range of clients from middle market, closely held organizations to large Fortune 500 companies. We focus on finance and accounting, internal audit, IT audit and tax. We offer direct, personal involvement from senior practitioners and strive to meet clients' needs rapidly.