Director Business Transformation

IDEMIA is the global leader in identity and security. Our mission is to create a safe and simple future where identity verification is indisputable, and only you can assert your identity. We are a distributed company leveraging the latest technologies to deliver world-class products in the private and public sectors of finance, telecom, identity, security, retail, sports entertainment, commercial, government, and IoT. We use a variety of technologies and approaches to deliver quality product and services to government agencies and technology companies. IDEMIA is a made up of a group of 14,000 diverse people from different nationalities, speaking over 20 different languages. Together, our solutions impact the everyday lives of citizens and nations. In this ever-changing world, protecting your identity is paramount.

Join the team that is ensuring one person - one identity as a Global Finance Transformation Director!

Responsibilities

Key Objectives

• Play a critical role in transformational efforts by leading prominent corporate strategic initiatives and ensuring programmatic governance.
• Manage initiatives end-to-end through requirements, design, build, testing, and implementation.
• Lead a matrixed project team made up of diverse stakeholders, ensuring a high level of engagement and communication and report directly to the Vice President of the Accounting.
• Communicate and partner with stakeholders across the organization to deliver projects on time and on budget.
• Drive the business and processes by delivering working solutions to executive leadership.
• Provide oversight for consultants, with a focus on optimizing finances, scheduling, resource allocation, and other key operational factors.
• Offer programmatic expertise and ensure alignment with the broader transformation approach, fostering a cohesive and integrated transformational strategy.
• Spearhead efforts to connect the dots between various initiatives and areas to drive enhanced business outcomes.
• Facilitate and lead stakeholder meetings, e.g., steering committees, workshops, kickoff meetings.
• Lead targeted efforts to promote awareness and engagement among key stakeholders, including operations, sponsors, SteerCo, project leads, and others, to ensure optimal buy-in and support for transformational initiatives.

Main Projects

ERP Implementations

• Implementing ERP Roadmap in parallel across the globe – managing multiple projects at the same time – developing a roadmap/plan that is repeatable in each jurisdiction
• Ensuring Fit/Gap items are solutioned
• Building the system with the interfaces needed to facilitate the finance operating model
• Solutioning issues – requires innovative thinking – but also getting the open decisions resolved timely and documenting them
• Maintaining and holding people accountable for RAID items

Center of Excellence

• Manage and deliver the project plan developed for scaling our Center of Excellence
• Help expand services being offered out of this CoE
• Simplify processes and drive consistency and efficiency across CoE services
• Drive expansion into all global regions for IPS

Finance Process Improvements

• Help drive and implement process improvements
• Develop roadmap of improvement areas – agreeing on the priorities with senior leaders and keeping teams aware of progress and involvement
• Reporting and tracking progress of items identified on roadmap

Enhancing and Alignment of Business FP&A Tools

• Manage reporting workstream project to help drive enhanced reporting for business leaders
• Achieve consistency in our reporting offering from finance
• Ensure reporting impacts from ERPs and process improvements are facilitating down to the reporting workstream

Job Requirements

Academic and Work Experience

• Degree in Accountancy / Finance / Business
• At least 10 years of relevant working experience preferably in a similar capacity for a global company
• Strong understanding of the best-in-class finance practices and processes
• Technical accounting knowledge of Finance, Accounting, and IT
• Leading projects from developing the business case to implementation
• Participation in stakeholder meetings, e.g., steering committees

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Analytical and detail-oriented; able to make good business sense from financial data
• Excellent decision making and problem solving ability
• Self motivated individual who is able to work well independently as well as under pressure with accuracy and commitment
• Strong project management skills & organizational skills are must with a sense of urgency to all tasks set.
• Strict attention to detail, accurate, and reliable
• Can do attitude and flexible to change
• Ability to work autonomously, be results orientated, and respect deadlines
• Enthusiasm and team player attitude
• Appreciation of remote shared services environment
• Strong Microsoft Office skills

IDEMIA is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.