Senior Director – Enterprise Applications

Role Overview

• Serve as the primary operational owner of D365 F&O and other financial systems within the Finance Systems team’s purview, ensuring platform stability, performance, and alignment with organizational requirements.
• Maintain a comprehensive inventory of applications, integrations, and data flows across the financial systems landscape; identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for rationalization.
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to evaluate, onboard, and retire financial system components in a controlled, well-documented manner.
• Monitor system health, coordinate scheduled maintenance windows, and ensure adequate business continuity and disaster recovery planning is in place for critical financial platforms.
• Serve as the primary owner of day-to-day management of key technology vendors and implementation partners, including managed service providers, ensuring contractual obligations and service levels are met.
• Lead recurring vendor governance meetings; track open issues, escalate risks, and drive resolution in a timely manner.
• Evaluate vendor performance against defined SLAs; provide input into contract renewals and statement of work negotiations.
• Collaborate with Procurement and Legal as needed to manage vendor agreements, change orders, and compliance requirements.
• Own the end-to-end user access lifecycle for D365 F&O and related financial systems, including provisioning, modification, periodic review, and termination.
• Maintain and enforce a robust security role framework aligned to the principle of least privilege, ensuring Segregation of Duties (SoD) policies are embedded into role design and access assignment.
• Lead periodic user access reviews in partnership with Controllership leadership and business control owners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance systems administration, ERP operations, or a related field; at least 3 years in a leadership or senior individual contributor capacity.
• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O), including security role configuration, workflow administration, and master data management.
• Demonstrated experience managing vendor relationships and third-party implementation partners (e.g. Avanade, Hitachi, Accenture, or equivalent)
• Experience with application license management, cost modeling, and total cost of ownership analysis for enterprise financial systems.
• Familiarity with ERP user access management principles, including Segregation of Duties (SoD) frameworks and periodic access review processes.
• Experience supporting multi-entity environments and/or new legal entity deployments is required.

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• life and disability insurance
• paid vacation
• 401(k) plan