Director, Accounting Global Process Owner

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Enterprise Accounting Strategy and Governance Serve as a strategic advisor to the Chief Accounting Officer and senior finance leaders regarding global accounting processes, governance, technology capabilities, and controls. Develop and maintain a multiyear global accounting strategy aligned with enterprise priorities, business needs, regulatory requirements, and emerging capabilities. Establish enterprise-wide process standards, policies, decision rights, documentation requirements, and exception protocols. Lead governance forums that address strategic priorities, process decisions, risks, performance, and competing stakeholder requirements. Strategic Portfolio and Value Realization Translate the global accounting strategy into a prioritized portfolio of initiatives with clear outcomes, ownership, milestones, resource requirements, and success measures. Prioritize initiatives based on enterprise value, business risk, control impact, scalability, implementation complexity, and organizational capacity. Develop and sponsor business cases for major accounting investments and influence related resource and investment decisions. Evaluate initiative performance and realized value, directing corrective action when expected outcomes are not achieved. Future-State Process, Technology, and Data Establish the future-state vision and design principles for technology-enabled accounting processes, including automation, workflow, analytics, data governance, and controls. Partner with Finance Technology and other stakeholders to incorporate accounting requirements into enterprise architecture, platform, and implementation decisions. Evaluate emerging technologies and process solutions and recommend appropriate investment, adoption, and enterprise deployment. Ensure solutions are sustainable and supported by appropriate ownership, governance, documentation, controls, and performance measures. Risk, Controls, and Regulatory Readiness Partner with Internal Audit, SOX, Finance Technology, and accounting leaders to ensure process and technology strategies support control and regulatory requirements. Anticipate risks arising from business growth, acquisitions, organizational change, technology implementation, regulatory developments, and evolving operating models. Provide strategic guidance on complex process and control matters that cross organizational or geographic boundaries. Establish governance mechanisms to monitor process adherence, control effectiveness, significant exceptions, and emerging risks. Organizational Adoption and Capability Development Establish the change and adoption strategy for major global accounting initiatives. Influence senior leaders, global process owners, and key stakeholders to align around enterprise priorities, standards, and governance expectations. Anticipate organizational barriers and stakeholder concerns and develop strategies that build alignment and sustain adoption. Strengthen global capabilities in process ownership, technology enablement, internal controls, governance, and continuous improvement. Use external advisors, professional organizations, technology providers, benchmarking, and peer relationships to identify emerging practices and capabilities. Performance Management and Executive Communication Define enterprise KPIs, baseline measures, performance expectations, and benefit targets for global accounting processes and strategic initiatives. Evaluate performance across operational, financial, control, service, and organizational dimensions. Direct cross-functional