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Job Title

Finance Systems & Transformation Leader

The Director Finance Transformation & SAP Strategy will serve as a key Finance leader responsible for driving finance process transformation, SAP S/4HANA deployment readiness, finance data strategy, and cross-functional execution across CoorsTek’s phased enterprise transformation roadmap. This role will partner across Finance, Accounting, IT, Data & Analytics, and business process teams to improve finance processes, strengthen reporting and data capabilities, support scalable SAP-enabled operations, and help build long-term finance transformation capability across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation

• Serve as a Finance business lead and cross-functional liaison for SAP S/4HANA implementation activities across Finance workstreams.
• Provide hands-on leadership for UAT, defect triage, business process validation, training development, cutover readiness, and hypercare support.
• Partner with Finance, IT, system integrators, and business stakeholders, to identify and resolve process, data, configuration, security, reporting, and integration issues.
• Support the phased SAP rollout roadmap and future corporate deployment activities.
• Help ensure finance process design supports scalable operations, strong internal controls, accurate reporting, and efficient end-user adoption.
• Translate business requirements into practical SAP-enabled processes, with emphasis on finance usability, data integrity, standardization, and operational sustainability.

Finance Business Process Leadership

• Act as a Finance process transformation leader across AR, AP, general accounting, financial reporting, operational accounting, treasury-related processes, and other finance areas as needed.
• Evaluate current and future-state finance processes and recommend improvements that increase efficiency, reduce manual work, improve controls, and enhance reporting visibility.
• Partner with process owners to define standard work, desktop procedures, training materials, and post-go-live support models.
• Support finance policy, governance, and process standardization across phased deployment sites.

Reporting, Data & Analytics

• Support finance reporting transformation and consolidated reporting initiatives, including opportunities to leverage enterprise data platforms and reporting architecture.
• Partner with Finance, IT, and Data & Analytics teams to improve access to reliable finance data, reduce manual reporting dependencies, and enhance management reporting.
• Develop or support dashboarding, analytics, and reporting solutions that improve transparency into financial performance, working capital, process performance, and operational metrics.
• Help bridge current reporting tools and future enterprise data/reporting architecture.

Strategic Finance & Cross-Functional Initiatives

• Support finance leadership on strategic projects requiring a combination of accounting, systems, reporting, process, and business judgment.
• Provide support for Japan-related finance initiatives, including process, reporting, system, or operating model analysis as needed.
• Support acquisition integration, finance systems onboarding, data conversion, and process standardization activities.
• Partner with Treasury, Tax, Accounting, FP&A, and Operations on initiatives that require integrated finance execution.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual finance activities and improve the quality and timeliness of financial information.

Controls, Accounting Partnership & Governance

• Ensure finance transformation activities maintain compliance with company policies, internal controls, US GAAP, and applicable international reporting requirements.
• Partner with Accounting leadership to ensure SAP-enabled processes support accurate month-end close, account reconciliations, consolidation, reporting, and audit readiness.
• Assist with the design and validation of controls embedded in future-state finance processes.
• Support internal and external audit readiness related to transformed processes, system changes, and financial reporting impacts.

Leadership & Change Management

• Lead through influence across Finance, IT, operations, and project teams to drive timely decisions and effective execution.
• Develop strong relationships with business process owners, finance leaders, regional teams, and end users.
• Provide coaching, structure, and practical guidance to users and team members during implementation, training, go-live, and stabilization.
• Help build long-term finance transformation capability within the organization.
• Communicate risks, dependencies, decisions, and progress clearly to senior Finance leadership.

Job Requirements:

Education & Certification

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or related field required.
• Active CPA license strongly preferred.
• Advanced degree or relevant systems/project certifications preferred but not required.

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive finance, accounting, systems, shared services, or finance transformation experience.
• Experience leading or materially supporting SAP ERP implementations, with SAP S/4HANA experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience translating finance business requirements into system-enabled processes.
• Experience with finance data, reporting, analytics, dashboards, or enterprise reporting tools.
• Experience in accounting operations, shared services, general accounting, financial reporting, FP&A, treasury-adjacent processes, or operational finance.
• Prior people leadership, project leadership, or cross-functional leadership experience required.
• Manufacturing, multinational, or complex multi-entity experience preferred.

Functional / Technical Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong understanding of finance and accounting processes, including AR, AP, general ledger, close, reporting, reconciliations, controls, and data integrity.
• Strong SAP finance process knowledge, with ability to partner effectively with technical resources and business users.
• Ability to diagnose issues across process, data, configuration, security, integration, reporting, and training.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work hands-on in project details while maintaining strategic perspective.
• Strong communication skills, with ability to explain complex finance and system issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change, facilitate decisions, manage competing priorities, and drive accountability.
• Strong Excel, reporting, and data analysis capability.
• Experience with tools such as SAP Fiori, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Business Warehouse, Hyperion/Essbase, Cognos, enterprise data platforms, or similar reporting and analytics tools preferred.

Target Hiring Range

Annual Salary: USD 146,552.00 - USD 201,509.00

Actual compensation is commensurate with experience, skills and education. CoorsTek strives to give all qualified applicants equal opportunity and to make selection decisions on job related factors. Do not provide any information on the application which will indicate your race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law or regulation.

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