Associate Vice President, Finance Business Process & Systems Lead

Summary The Associate Vice President serves as the senior techno-functional leader for the firm’s core finance operations spanning Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Billing, and Payroll, together with the reporting and data integrity that underpin them. Sitting at the intersection of finance and technology within the Finance Process & Operations (FPO) team, the role owns the process and systems landscape for these functions and sets the strategy for how AI, automation, and emerging technology create value across them. As the AI and technology champion for these functions, the AVP defines where automation and AI deliver the highest return, maintains a prioritized portfolio of use cases, and establishes the governance needed to adopt new technology safely. The role pairs this forward-looking mandate with deep accountability for data integrity and controls - ensuring accuracy, auditability, and compliance across record-to-report and order-to-cash processes. The AVP is a trusted strategic partner to finance leadership, translating business goals into a technology and process roadmap and representing these functions in firmwide initiatives. The role leads a team of FPO staff and consultants through agile delivery, manages risk and exposure across the domain, and communicates progress and trade-offs to senior leadership. Success requires the judgment to balance strategic transformation with the day-to-day realities of finance operations, and the influence to drive outcomes across a broad set of stakeholders. In-Office Requirement: 4 days a week Primary Responsibilities AI/Technology Champion & Strategic Partnership (~25%) Serve as the AI and technology champion for the GL, AR, Billing, and Payroll functions, setting the vision for where AI and automation create the most value and driving adoption across the teams Maintain a prioritized portfolio of AI and automation use cases, applying a value-to-effort lens to sequence investment toward the highest-return initiatives Establish lightweight governance for AI use in finance - covering data usage, access, model validation, and human oversight - in partnership with GTS and risk functions Act as a trusted strategic partner to finance leadership, translating business goals into a technology and process roadmap for the domain and surfacing risks, opportunities, and trade-offs Serve as the senior business owner and SME representing these functions in cross-functional and firmwide initiatives, influencing priorities and resourcing without direct authority over all stakeholders Stay current on emerging AI, low-code/no-code, and finance-technology trends, evaluating their fit and redesigning roles and processes around AI capability as routine work is automated Process Ownership & Data Integrity (~20%) Own the end-to-end record-to-report and order-to-cash process landscape across GL, AR, Billing, and Payroll, and the systems that support them Champion data integrity across these functions, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency of financial data and standard data definitions with clear ownership Oversee the control framework for the domain, including GL and subledger reconciliations and SOX process and control documentation, partnering with audit Drive standardization and modernization of core workflows - billing and receivables, payroll accounting, journal entry, and reconciliations - to compress close timelines and reduce manual error Ensure system changes preserve controls, auditability, and compliance with GAAP and SOX across the domain Project & Delivery Execution (~20%) Lead delivery of technology and process initiatives across the domain, from discovery and fit-gap through design, build, UAT, deployment, and stabilization Own the initiative roadmap and backlog, balancing strategic programs against day-to-day enhancement demand Drive fit-gap analyses, future-state process design, system integrations, and data migration for finance-systems initiatives Coordinate