Ford Motor Company

Director, Finance Transformation

Ford Motor Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Dearborn • Missouri • United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Serve as a primary liaison between the Finance and Accounting organizations and the IT/Project Management Office (PMO)
  • Define the "To-Be" financial vision, ensuring the SAP design balances maximizing out-of-box functionality to support upgradability and scalability, provides operational efficiency and actionable insights to the business and is in compliance with statutory requirements
  • Support execution of the SAP project across accounting workstreams
  • Ensure the SAP design adheres to relevant accounting standards (U.S. GAAP) and S-Ox framework
  • Validate that the system provides the necessary granularity for tax, legal entity reporting, and management accounting (CO-PA)
  • Drive the business requirements gathering phase, ensuring that "standard" SAP functionality is prioritized over custom enhancements
  • Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) from the business side, defining test scripts and ensuring the system is fit for purpose
  • Oversee the data migration strategy for financial data, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and reconciliation between legacy systems and SAP
  • Act as a change agent, driving the adoption of new processes across the global finance team
  • Collaborate with the Change Management team to design and deliver training programs for end-users
  • Manage senior stakeholders, providing transparent updates on project risks, business impacts, and milestones
  • Support SAP up-skilling of the global finance and accounting teams to broaden and deepen SAP expertise across the organization

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
  • Certification: CPA, CA, or equivalent professional accounting certification is highly preferred
  • Experience: 12+ years of progressive experience in Finance/Accounting, with at least 5 years in a leadership role within a large-scale SAP implementation (S/4HANA preferred)
  • Technical Depth: Deep understanding of core SAP Accounting modules (FI/CO, Group Reporting, Central Finance) and their integration points with SD, MM, and PP
  • Transformation Track Record: Proven experience in business process re-engineering and leading cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment
  • Strategic Influence: Ability to challenge the status quo and influence executive leadership
  • Problem Solving: A "solution-oriented" mindset capable of navigating complex technical and business roadblocks
  • Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical SAP concepts into plain business and accounting language
  • Collaboration: Exceptional ability to partner across the enterprise to resolve complex IT and business challenges and execute on project timelines
  • Analytical Rigor: Strong focus on data integrity and the "logic" behind financial flows.
Benefits
  • Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
  • Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
  • Tuition assistance
  • Established and active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for individual and team community service
  • A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
  • Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SAPS/4HANAFICOGroup ReportingCentral Financebusiness process re-engineeringdata migrationUser Acceptance Testingfinancial data reconciliation
Soft Skills
leadershipproblem solvingcommunicationcollaborationstrategic influencechange managementanalytical rigorstakeholder managementtraining program designbusiness requirements gathering
Certifications
CPACA