Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Valvoline Global Operations is an automotive and industrial solutions company seeking a Director, Enterprise Program Execution - Finance. The role leads financial planning, governance, execution, and value realization for complex enterprise programs, particularly the global SAP S/4HANA implementation. This position oversees budgeting, investment prioritization, cost controls, benefits tracking, financial risk management, and cross-functional program delivery.
Responsibilities
- Execute end-to-end program finance workstreams including business case development and validation, budget planning, multi-year forecasting, and variance analysis
- Define, track, and realize expected benefits across cost savings, working capital, process efficiency, controls, and revenue enablement, partnering with Finance to ensure benefits are measurable and sustained post-implementation
- Ensure enterprise programs—particularly SAP S/4HANA—are fully aligned to annual operating plans, capital planning cycles, and long-range financial targets
- Embed strong financial controls, compliance, and audit readiness into program design and execution, particularly across Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, and Financial Close processes
- Lead various enterprise program implementations with a primary focus on quality, value realization, and investment discipline, ensuring delivery within approved business cases, funding models, and capital guardrails
- Manage the design, build, deployment, and stabilization of large-scale enterprise initiatives, with a primary focus on the SAP S/4HANA finance workstream transformation across global markets
- Partner closely with Finance, IT, Supply Chain, Operations, and external system integrators to ensure project requirements, controls, and reporting needs are fully integrated into program delivery
- Drive execution rigor across all phases of the program lifecycle, including fit-to-standard design, global template development, localization, data migration, testing, cutover, and hypercare
- Integrate financial milestones, funding checkpoints, and performance KPIs into integrated program plans, ensuring project health is visible and actively managed
- Own the management, productivity tracking, and optimization of system integrators and consultants, including scope adherence, velocity, cost efficiency, and value delivered across program phases
- Establish and lead financial governance frameworks for enterprise programs, including steering committees, funding approvals, and stage-gate reviews
- Evaluate and prioritize program investments based on financial impact, risk, resource capacity, and strategic alignment
- Identify financial risks early, including cost overruns, scope creep, and benefit leakage, and implement mitigation strategies to protect enterprise value
- Provide transparent, executive-level reporting on financial performance, risks, and value realization
- Lead and develop program execution team members with accountability for financial performance and cost discipline
- Oversee resource allocation and vendor spend to ensure efficient use of internal and external resources
- Partner with Procurement and Finance to manage contracts, vendor financial performance, and commercial governance
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, including Aramco stakeholders, on the financial health and value delivery of enterprise programs
- Communicate financial insights, trade-offs, and recommendations to enable informed decision-making at the enterprise level
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations, or related field
- 15+ years of experience in a global IT or ERP related role with a strong familiarity of finance-focused programs/platforms
- 5+ years of experience leading global enterprise-scale programs with significant financial complexity, including but not limited to ERP (SAP S/4HANA) implementations
- Demonstrated expertise in program budgeting, forecasting, cost management, and benefits realization
- Significant partnership experience with global Finance organizations, including FP&A and Controllership across the Americas/EMEA/Asia Pacific
- Deep knowledge of project and program management methodologies, consultant management and financial governance models
- Proven ability to manage large, multi-year program budgets and executive-level financial reporting
- MBA or advanced degree preferred
- PMP, PgMP, or related certification preferred
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