About the Role
The Sr. Manager, Finance Value Stream is a people-first leader responsible for building and developing a high-performing, global Finance Value Stream team while staying hands-on with solution design, roadmap execution, and complex delivery challenges. This role translates Finance value stream strategy into end-to-end capabilities across the full finance operations lifecycle—financial reporting and close, FP&A and budgeting/forecasting, accounts payable/receivable, billing, and the controls and auditability that underpin them all. This leader brings a global, sustainable approach to how finance systems and data are managed and establishes critical groundwork for long-term change and best practice approaches as we advance our Finance technology and operational maturity.
- Guide and mentor a global, remote Finance Value Stream team through continuous transformation, evolving team mindsets, building change resilience and enabling greater value through effective human and AI collaboration.
- Champion and lead both software enabled and AI informed redesign of finance workflows, driving technology adoption and business process transformation with a structured change management approach to improve efficiency, scalability, controls and user experiences.
- Establish governance frameworks, design standards, and KPIs to elevate delivery quality and platform maturity across Finance systems and capabilities.
- Lead, mentor, and develop Product Owners, configuration engineers, and cross-functional contributors, providing career guidance and performance management.
- Lead and refine user story discussions to align with Finance value stream features and objectives, ensuring stories are prioritized with clear acceptance criteria.
- Own accountability over the team's planning on scope, dependencies, and capacity to properly prioritize roadmaps and backlog refinements.
- Own and continuously refine the team-level backlog, ensuring user stories are clear, testable, and aligned to Finance value stream features.
- Own and evolve the Finance value stream roadmap, ensuring it reflects enterprise priorities, OKR commitments, and long-range planning outcomes.
- Partner with Value Stream Owner, Business Architects, and Solution Architects to maintain a unified vision across Finance capabilities.
- Ensure alignment between the Finance roadmap and GTM strategy, regulatory requirements, and operational readiness.
- Build and maintain a prioritized Feature backlog spanning the full finance operations lifecycle: financial close, FP&A, AP/AR, billing, reconciliation, and auditability.
- Resolve complex intra-ART and cross-value-stream priority conflicts using economic framing, WSJF, and stakeholder alignment.
- Lead integrated change delivery encompassing both system changes and associated finance business process transformation.
- Proactively monitor W