# Senior Director, Finance System Architecture

**Company**: Salesforce
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Director to lead our Finance system architecture, data flow, and enhancement roadmap. As a strategic leader in our Controllership group, you will bridge the gap between complex accounting requirements and technical execution. You will oversee initiatives, drive the evolution of our Workday Cloud ERP ecosystem, and ensure AI is at the forefront of our financial automation strategy.

**Responsibilities:**

- Strategic Record to Report (R2R) Leadership: Direct and oversee comprehensive R2R initiatives involving complex data streams across both revenue and non-revenue business functions.

- ERP System Ownership: Serve as the primary business owner for the accounting ERP system. Define the strategic vision for system architecture, data integrity, and operational scale.

- IT Partnership & Issue Resolution: Partner directly with IT to manage, prioritize, and resolve critical ERP production issues, ensuring minimal disruption to accounting operations.

- AI & Automation Roadmap: Champion and lead initiatives to continuously automate and enhance the ERP system, actively identifying and integrating AI-driven solutions to modernize accounting workflows.

- Cross-Functional Influence: Act as a central strategic partner. Drive alignment, influence decision-making, and secure buy-in from senior stakeholders across Accounting, Finance, Engineering, and Operations.

- AI & Automation Enablement: Identify and deploy with finance transformations high-impact AI/agent use cases to scale automated, data-driven operations across Controllership.

- Lead Global Controllership Alignment: Serve as a central integration point to ensure that as we scale, our initiatives are aligned across our Global Process Owners (GPOs), cross-functional partners, and technology teams.

- Drive Holistic Stakeholders Engagement: Facilitate alignment across diverse groups (Tax, Treasury, Legal, M&A) to ensure that Controllership initiatives consider the full financial picture and regulatory landscape.

- Strategic Decision Support: Lead key strategic projects within the Global Accounting organization, specifically identifying decision bottlenecks and presenting clear facts to the appropriate stakeholders to facilitate resolution.

- Technology & Business Liaison: Serve as a key bridge between the Accounting function and the Digital Enterprise Transformation (DET) team.

- Executive Communication & Storytelling: Transform complex project updates and accounting data into clear, compelling narratives.

**Requirements:**

- 12+ years of progressive experience in accounting, financial systems, or finance transformation, with a strong background in R2R processes.

- Technical Acumen - Deep expertise in enterprise-level ERP systems and accounting data architecture.

- Strategic Execution - Proven ability to act as a strategic driver rather than a task manager, with a track record of translating complex financial needs into scalable system solutions.

- Stakeholder Influence - Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional technical and non-technical stakeholders without direct reporting authority.

- Forward-Thinking - Demonstrated passion for exploring and implementing emerging technologies, specifically AI and machine learning, within the finance and accounting domain.

**Benefits:**

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

## Skills

### Required
- ERP systems
- accounting data architecture
- AI and machine learning
- financial automation
- strategic execution
- stakeholder influence

### Nice to have
- Workday experience
- management or technology consulting experience
- hands-on Finance Operations experience
- AI transformation initiatives

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