Job Description
The Senior Director, Finance leads critical commercial finance processes, oversees the sustainment and enhancement of forecasting dashboards and commercial P&L reporting, and drives complex projects in a global SAP environment. This role owns key business processes end-to-end, partners closely with regional and global stakeholders, and ensures high-quality financial insights through robust governance, validation, and continuous improvement of reporting tools and workflows.
ResponsibilitiesOwn and manage the quarterly territory rollover business process, including leading all communications with regional and global stakeholders.Establish, maintain, and communicate the schedule and calendar for quarterly territory rollover activities.Prepare and distribute templates to collect feedback from regions, ensuring timely and accurate data collection.Perform validations on submitted territory data and lead subsequent conversations with regional teams and global support organizations to resolve issues.Review and approve or deny off-cycle account-to-territory change requests from global support organizations, ensuring adherence to governance and policy.Lead the business process for forecast snapshots, aligning with Global Commercial Finance on the approach and timing for dashboard refreshes and subscriptions from quarter end through forecast cycles.Update reporting flags and perform dashboard validations to ensure data accuracy and consistency across forecast snapshots.Provide support and coverage for dashboards, including troubleshooting issues and coordinating with technical teams as needed.Maintain and update the forecast snapshot calendar, including snap timings, and send calendar reminders to support ongoing sustainment.Review and approve or deny Tableau server access requests, ensuring appropriate access governance.Action Tableau workbook-level access requests received through ServiceNow, email, or other channels, including role-based security updates.Support and validate Tahoe publishes, ensuring that extracts and subscriptions function correctly and align with business requirements.Manage extract refresh and subscription settings, including monitoring performance and resolving issues.Communicate with executive leadership and Global Commercial FP&A regarding dashboard pauses, changes, or other impacts to reporting availability.Support quarter-end and SAP release activities by preparing dashboard lists and assisting with execution, validations, and pausing or enabling extracts and subscriptions.Lead the sustainment of the Commercial P&L, including quarterly reviews of cost center changes and coordination with global and regional teams on mapping updates and operating expense allocations.Validate Commercial P&L data between forecast cycles to ensure ongoing accuracy and integrity of financial reporting.Drive commercial projects by coordinating communications and meetings for go-live events, demonstrations, user acceptance tests, and project kick-offs.Prepare clear and compelling PowerPoint presentations to communicate project status, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders.Develop, review, and refine user acceptance test (UAT) scripts to ensure comprehensive testing coverage.Lead or support testing and validation activities for commercial projects, ensuring that dashboards, Commercial P&L, and related tools meet requirements before go-live.Plan and oversee dashboards and Commercial P&L initiatives, acting as overall project manager or project lead where required.Manage the dashboard roadmap and project portfolio, including intake of new requests, prioritization, and assignment of resources.Lead requirements gathering and design sessions for new dashboards, collaborating with stakeholders to define scope, metrics, and visualizations.Provide ongoing support to the development team throughout dashboard development, ensuring alignment with business needs and timelines.Review, validate, and test dashboards and related tools prior to go-live, ensuring quality, usability, and accuracy.Define access groups and row-level security (RLS) for new dashboards to ensure appropriate data access and compliance.Prepare and review project plans for dashboard and reporting initiatives, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocations.Provide miscellaneous user support by responding to ad-hoc questions and requests from business partners regarding dashboards, forecasts, and commercial P&L.Foster strong stakeholder communication and alignment across global and regional teams, ensuring transparency and timely updates on key initiatives.Continuously improve business processes, tools, and reporting by identifying opportunities for optimization and implementing best practices.Essential SkillsMinimum 5 years of relevant project management experience leading complex financial or commercial initiatives.Demonstrated experience owning and managing business processes end-to-end, including scheduling, communications, and governance.Strong expertise with Tableau dashboards, including access management, workbook-level permissions, and dashboard validation.Proven experience in forecasting processes, including forecast snapshots, dashboard refresh cycles, and subscription management.Hands-on experience working with Commercial P&L reporting, including cost center mapping, operating expense allocations, and data validation.Experience operating in an SAP environment, including coordination of activities around SAP releases and quarter-end processes.Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with executive leadership, global finance teams, and regional business partners.Proven ability to manage intake workflows, prioritize requests, and allocate resources across multiple projects.Experience with user acceptance testing (UAT) and testing methodologies, including test script preparation and execution.Strong presentation skills, including the ability to prepare and deliver clear and compelling PowerPoint presentations for Senior audiences.Additional Skills & QualificationsExperience with dashboard roadmap management and project portfolio oversight.Familiarity with defining access groups and row-level security (RLS) for dashboards and reporting tools.Experience coordinating with global commercial finance or FP&A teams on reporting and forecasting initiatives.Comfort working with tools and workflows such as Tableau Server, Tahoe publishes, and ServiceNow for access and support requests.Ability to translate business requirements into clear design specifications for dashboards and reporting solutions.Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail in data validation and process sustainment.Demonstrated ability to support users with ad-hoc requests and provide clear, timely guidance.Work Environment
The role operates in a highly collaborative, global finance environment focused on commercial performance, forecasting, and reporting. You will work extensively with financial dashboards, including Tableau and related reporting tools, within an SAP-based ecosystem. The position involves regular coordination with global and regional finance teams, executive leadership, and technical partners, often across multiple time zones. Work includes managing calendars for key financial cycles, supporting quarter-end and system release activities, and overseeing access governance for reporting tools. The environment values structured project management, clear communication, and continuous improvement of financial processes and dashboards, with a professional dress code appropriate for a corporate finance setting where presentations to Senior stakeholders are common.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of San Diego, CA.
Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $50.00 - $54.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job\n classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be\n subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits\n available for this temporary role may include the following:\n\n
• Medical, dental & vision\n
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital\n
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available\n
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)\n
• Short and long-term disability\n
• Health Spending Account (HSA)\n
• Transportation benefits\n
• Employee Assistance Program\n
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
This is a hybrid position in San Diego,CA.
Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on May 15, 2026.
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\nAbout Aston Carter\n\n
Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® double diamond winner for both client and talent service.
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