Global Finance Business Partner Senior Director

Overview

As Finance Business Partner to the HR & People Function, you act as a strategic finance advisor, shaping financial insight and decision support for function leaders. You will be part of Global FP&A, translating financial data into guidance that enables strategic and operational priorities. The role sits at the intersection of finance and HR, driving the end-to-end transformation of HR processes and shared services. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure financial acumen, accountability, and value generation, tying investments and initiatives to business outcomes. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence senior leadership decisions in a fast-paced, transformation-led环境

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic finance leadership to the Function’s senior leadership and contribute to decision-making with financial insight
• Develop and present business cases for investments, transformations, and new initiatives
• Play an activist role in change initiatives, ensuring financial integration and accuracy into operational processes
• Navigate complexity to propose solutions, outline choices, and align finance with functional priorities
• Partner with functional leaders to deliver tailored financial insights and support
• Maintain alignment with stakeholders on roles, priorities and boundaries
• Coordinate with BI&A, Intercompany, Finance digital products portfolio, Global Accounting & Controlling, Global Tax, Finance Excellence, Enterprise Architecture and regional/local finance leaders
• Collaborate on headcount and compensation planning with HR and support vendor negotiation processes
• Oversee budgeting, accruals, forecasting, variance analysis for the function
• Provide regular financial reporting to functional stakeholders and ensure data integrity in close processes
• Share best practices within Global FP&A and drive continuous improvement
• Manage recruitment, development and career processes for direct reports

Key requirements

• 12+ years of related finance experience (professional services background preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics (minimum)
• MBA considered advantageous
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior management
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and drive fast decision-making
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills with experience in scalable financial models
• Experience in consulting is a plus
• Deep knowledge of finance strategy (resource planning, budgeting, investments)
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking capabilities
• Team leadership and project management skills

• Critical thinking and consultative problem solving
• Trust-building and credibility with senior management
• Clear, simple communication of complex financial information
• Finance planning and analysis
• Budgeting and variance analysis
• Financial modeling in Excel

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