Overview The Director of Finance Transformation will lead global finance transformation initiatives across APACJ, EMEA, and the U.S., focusing on ERP implementation and optimization, legal entity rationalization, process standardization, and opportunities for automation and AI-enabled efficiencies.

The role will partner closely with regional controllers and finance leadership to modernize finance processes, strengthen reporting and controls, improve operational efficiency, and build scalable finance capabilities across regions.

The ideal candidate brings a solid background in multinational accounting and controllership, including experience across international markets, along with experience leading teams, managing complex financial processes, and delivering transformation initiatives in a global environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and coordinate finance transformation initiatives across APACJ, EMEA, and the U.S., aligning scope, milestones, risks, resources, and deliverables with global and regional finance leadership.
- Lead finance workstreams for global ERP implementation and continuous improvement, partnering with regional teams on process design, data migration, testing, controls, user adoption, and post-implementation optimization.
- Drive finance workstreams for global legal entity rationalization, coordinating with Tax, Legal, Treasury, and regional teams to simplify entity structures, streamline operations, and support execution of approved initiatives.
- Drive standardization and improvement of global accounting processes, including financial close, reconciliations, intercompany, consolidation, reporting, and internal controls, leveraging automation to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Identify opportunities to streamline finance activities, reduce manual effort, leverage automation and AI where appropriate, and improve regional and shared-service operating models.
- Partner with regional finance leaders to drive change management, build team capabilities, and ensure sustainable adoption of improved processes.




- Define transformation priorities, establish project milestones and success metrics, manage cross-functional dependencies, and deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, close timelines, reporting quality, and operating costs.
- Lead initiatives to improve statutory reporting and audit readiness across regions, including standardizing processes, improving documentation, and addressing recurring audit challenges.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline; professional accounting qualification (CPA, CA, ACCA, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting, controllership, or finance leadership within a multinational environment, with strong exposure to finance operations across multiple regions, including the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing geographically dispersed, multicultural accounting or finance teams, including direct people-management responsibility.
- Strong working knowledge of accounting operations, month-end and year-end close, reconciliations, financial reporting, consolidation, and internal controls.
- Practical experience overseeing statutory reporting and audits across multiple international jurisdictions, including coordination with local finance teams and external auditors.
- Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP and the relationship between group reporting requirements and local accounting or statutory requirements.
- Proven track record of leading ERP implementations and finance transformation initiatives, delivering measurable improvements, and influencing stakeholders across global, matrixed organizations.
- Excellent communication, analytical, problem-solving, project leadership, and change-management skills.
- Experience redesigning finance operating models, optimizing shared services, and introducing process automation or AI-enabled efficiencies.
- Experience in a senior regional controllership or finance leadership role with broad exposure to complex country and legal entity structures.
- MBA or additional finance, accounting, or transformation credentials are a plus.

📌 Director of Finance Transformation (Bengaluru)
🏢 Foundry
📍 Bengaluru