Job Description
Finance Futurist
Location: South San Francisco, California
Flexible work from home days
3 days a week in office / 2 remote
Reports to CFO.
Ideal Candidate : Strong finance professional with passion for tech and experience in digital space.
We seek a Finance Futurist, a visionary leader to drive financial innovation, digital transformation, and future-focused strategy within Finance. This pioneering role goes beyond traditional finance, leveraging emerging technologies, data-driven insights, and market foresight to position the company's Finance as a lighthouse for digital transformation across our company. The Finance Futurist will work cross-functionally to anticipate financial trends, develop innovative business models, and implement next-generation technologies, ensuring long-term financial sustainability and future-proofing the organization's financial strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Anticipate financial trends : Continuously scan the external landscape to identify emerging trends and disruptive technologies.
- Lead Digital Transformation for the company's Finance: Act as a catalyst for change, defining a clear and ambitious roadmap for digital transformation, ensuring alignment with business needs and technological advancements.
- Drive digital technology adoption : in collaboration with eCOE (enterprise Center of Excellence) and IT, evaluate, recommend, and implement AI, machine learning, and other next-gen financial technologies to enhance efficiency and accelerate value realization.
- Enhance data-driven decision-making to achieve Business Outcomes faster : In collaboration with eCOE and leveraging the new SAP system, establish advanced analytics capabilities to extract valuable insights from financial data, empowering leadership with real-time, predictive intelligence.
- Work cross-functionally : Partner with IT, eCOE, and other internal stakeholders to align digital initiatives with overall business objectives.
- Drive cultural and operational change : Lead the adoption of new ways of working within Finance, ensuring teams embrace technology, agility, and continuous innovation.
- Lead and coach a team by setting clear expectations and accountability within the team for impacting patients, customers, our organization, and the team.