Global Programme Director – Finance Technology

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential global professional services organisation that is accelerating a major finance technology transformation to modernise and standardise the platforms, data, and processes that underpin global finance operations. This portfolio is critical to statutory reporting, management reporting, forecasting, planning, control, performance management, compliance, and executive decision-making.

As Global Programme Director - Finance Technology, you will shape, govern, and drive a global finance technology transformation portfolio. This senior enterprise leadership role turns a complex, multi-year agenda into a coherent roadmap that simplifies the finance technology estate, strengthens control and resilience, and enables faster, more trusted business insight.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Shaping and sequencing the global Finance ERP roadmap, moving towards fewer platforms, common templates, harmonised controls, and reduced process variation
• Leading the transition from legacy consolidation tooling to a resilient enterprise performance management capability across consolidation, planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics
• Strengthening delivery confidence, investment discipline, and benefits realisation across a high-value portfolio with significant executive visibility and business risk
• Defining the global Finance Technology portfolio vision, investment narrative, and multi-year roadmap across Finance ERP, consolidation, enterprise performance management, forecasting, analytics, and finance data
• Translating finance transformation priorities into a clear, sequenced, and deliverable portfolio that balances strategic value, delivery capacity, affordability, risk, and business disruption
• Establishing strong portfolio governance, investment controls, stage gates, assurance, and executive reporting to support timely, evidence-based decisions
• Leading and orchestrating a portfolio of finance transformation programmes, ensuring clear sponsorship, ownership, outcomes, funding, delivery accountability, and benefits realisation
• Managing portfolio risks, dependencies, resources, budgets, delivery confidence, and executive escalations across Finance, Enterprise Technology, data, architecture, security, controls, suppliers, markets, and agencies
• Building trusted relationships with senior Finance, Enterprise Technology, agency, market, and regional leaders to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and maintain enterprise momentum
• Shaping business cases, funding recommendations, and portfolio choices using clear analysis of cost, benefit, risk, sequencing, control impact, and business value
• Managing system integrators, software vendors, and delivery partners against commitments, outcomes, commercial levers, and performance expectations
• Leading and coaching programme directors, delivery leads, PMOs, and matrixed teams to raise delivery standards, strengthen transparency, and build a culture of accountability

What We're Looking For

Our client is seeking a director-level professional with strategic judgement, executive influence, commercial discipline, and the ability to create clarity, momentum, and delivery confidence across a high-profile transformation portfolio.

Essential experience and skills:

• Extensive experience leading large-scale finance technology, ERP, enterprise performance management, or corporate systems transformation in a global organisation
• Proven track record of leading multi-year transformation portfolios with significant budgets, multiple delivery partners, complex governance, and senior executive sponsorship
• Strong understanding of finance operating models and core finance capabilities, including ERP, consolidation, planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, analytics, controls, and finance data
• Director-level leadership presence, with the credibility to influence C-suite leaders, Finance executives, technology leaders, agencies, markets, and external partners
• Strong capability in portfolio governance, investment management, business case development, budget ownership, benefits realisation, assurance, RAID, and dependency management
• Commercially confident, with experience managing vendors, system integrators, and delivery partners against commitments, outcomes, and performance measures
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex finance, technology, and delivery issues into clear executive insight, decisions, and recommendations
• Ability to create clarity in ambiguity, resolve competing priorities, and lead matrixed teams across geographies, functions, and business units
• Strong understanding of change, adoption, business readiness, service transition, process ownership, and operating model embedding
• Resilient, commercially minded, and outcome-focused, with high integrity, strong judgement, and the confidence to challenge constructively when value, control, or delivery confidence is at risk

This role is based in London and follows a hybrid working model with office attendance around four days per week.

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team reviews your profile and coordinates all communication with you. If your background matches what our client is seeking, we will schedule an initial screening conversation to discuss your experience, the role requirements, and your career goals.

Once we confirm mutual interest, we will submit your profile to the client for consideration. Our recruitment team manages the interview process, provides feedback at each stage, and supports you through offer negotiations.

Please do not contact the client directly. All applications and enquiries must go through Get A Job.ai to be considered for this confidential search.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and will be competitive with the market for this director-level finance transformation role in London.

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