Director, Analytics & AI Transformation

The Director, Analytics & AI Transformation is accountable for leading best-in-class systems and process design, implementation and governance across the enterprise for the reporting, analytics and artificial intelligence.  This leader will embrace simple and standard solutions as an enabler of delivering scale and efficiency to the entirety of the enterprise.  They will own everything involved in ensuring standards that eliminate or automate reporting and controls across the enterprise.  They will collaborate with external resources as well as key internal stakeholders (business, GIS, corporate) to ensure one source of the truth as it relates to actual results as well as standard and automated tools to simplify forecast reporting and deliver best in class capability as measured by cost to value relationship.  The scope of the role will bridge from early design alignment on the standards and processes used to successful implementation while ensuring proper governance structure exists to maintain our commitment to simple, standard, and automated.  This leader will collaborate with transformation peers to ensure coordinated efforts and will further partner with business peers to ensure alignment and effectiveness of proposed solutions.

Reports to:  Vice President, Transformation

Span of Control:  Small team of direct and indirect reports

Business and Functional Partnership

• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders across the enterprise, as well as external partners, to define one source of the truth as it relates to actual results.
• Partner with GIS and finance functions to define and develop standard and automated tools to simplify forecast reporting.
• Develop a deep understanding of industries, markets, and emerging technologies, as well as key drivers and influences impacting business results.
• Understand the differentiators of the businesses as well as operational threats. Align Reporting and AI Transformation initiatives to accelerate business results.

Process Transformation

• Lead best-in-class systems and process design, implementation, and governance across the enterprise for reporting, analytics and artificial intelligence. 

• Advocate and implement simple and standard ERP solutions as an enabler of delivering scale and efficiency to the entirety of the enterprise. 
• Define enterprise standards that enable automated reporting and controls across the enterprise. 
• Develop standard metrics, KPIs and scorecarding to measure our progress at the enterprise level with a focus on simple, standard and automated. 
• Build the business case for enterprise system and technology investments in business process, technology, and project management.
• Act as an accountability partner to the businesses and functions to ensure true process transformation and efficiencies are realized.
• Design and implement a sustainable governance structure capable of maintaining our commitment to simple, standard, and automated processes.
• Develop training programs and capabilities to build AI literacy and necessary adoption of employees.

Enterprise Leadership

• Foster a culture of innovation, strategic evaluation, and continuous improvement within the organization.
• Develop and communicate the vision for area of accountability ensuring the impact is clear to key stakeholders.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration and alignment across departments to streamline processes, improve decision-making, and accelerate execution of transformational initiatives.
• Partner with leaders across the enterprise to ensure synergy among transformation initiatives.
• Lead communication of strategic plans and progress to stakeholders, both internal.
• Empower individuals to successfully deliver a portfolio of high-impact enterprise initiatives.

Experience:

• Undergraduate degree in finance, data science or related field of study required; Masters-level degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in a variety of business and corporate facing finance roles.
• Demonstrated capability in BI and familiarity with cloud based solutions
• Progressive leadership experience across a global matrixed environment.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to simplify and automate in a manner that drives insight and confidence.
• Project management experience that drives impact, strong results and leads change.
• Demonstrated collaborative leadership style.
• Proven track record of identifying and overcoming challenges.
• Ability to leverage technology and systems to enable scale and efficiency.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build connection with key stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent interpersonal and influential leadership skills.

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