S&P Global US | Sr Director, Enterprise FP&A and Transformation

Responsibilities

• The Senior Director of Enterprise FP&A and Transformation is a senior finance leadership position responsible for shaping financial strategy, strengthening business performance, and elevating how FP&A operates across the enterprise.
• The role is focused on partnering with the Ratings and Energy divisions.
• Our Enterprise FP&A team operates as a strategic partner to executive leadership, with members based across New York, Philippines, and Malaysia working collaboratively on financial planning processes and strategic business insights.
• The team values analytical excellence, cross-functional partnership, and innovative thinking as we drive enterprise-wide modernization of financial planning processes.
• Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
• In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.
• Partner directly with VP Enterprise FP&A and executive leadership on strategic initiatives, capital allocation decisions, and Board financial communications with enterprise-wide visibility.
• Oversee the FP&A transformation project to drive enterprise-wide FP&A modernization, leveraging Data Fabric, AI automation, and advanced analytics to revolutionize financial planning processes.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to embed AI and automation into traditional FP&A workflows, improving speed, accuracy, scalability, and the quality of business insights.
• Develop standardized tools, dashboards, models, and reporting mechanisms that provide greater transparency and operational visibility across the enterprise.
• Establish transformation objectives, milestones, success measures, governance, and adoption plans, ensuring that modernization initiatives deliver measurable business value.
• Develop clear executive-level materials explaining incentive performance, sensitivities, and financial implications.
• Ensure incentive models are accurate, transparent, appropriately controlled, and aligned with approved financial plans and enterprise performance measures.
• Prepare clear, decision-ready financial materials for executive leadership, the CFO, and the Board of Directors.
• Deliver concise and compelling executive communications that distinguish between reported results, underlying business drivers, emerging risks, opportunities, and required management actions.
• Support regulatory and management reporting requirements as applicable, ensuring accuracy, consistency, transparency, and appropriate review.
• Establish clear responsibilities and operating rhythms across the team, ensuring accountability for both day-to-day delivery and longer-term modernization.
• Serve as the enterprise strategic finance partner for Ratings and Energy divisions, challenge assumptions, and prepare executive-level financial insights and performance narratives that connect financial results, operational drivers, opportunities, and strategic priorities
• Foster cross-functional partnerships and lead strategic project coordination across the finance organization, ensuring alignment on enterprise priorities and initiatives
• Lead incentive slope modeling and related financial analysis to assess plan performance, payout outcomes, business affordability, and alignment between compensation structures and strategic objectives.
• Partner with senior leadership and Executive Compensation to evaluate incentive plan design, performance thresholds, targets, funding levels, and potential outcomes under multiple business scenarios.
• Integrate incentive analysis into forecasts, performance reviews, and strategic planning to provide leadership with a comprehensive view of business and compensation outcomes.
• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technological advancement.

Qualifications

• Track record of leading teams and managing large-scale transformation or strategic initiatives in a global organization.
• Proven experience with Board-level and executive reporting, including preparation of materials for senior leadership and external stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in financial planning platforms and data visualization tools (including Tableau, Power BI, or similar).
• Strong expertise in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis with ability to synthesize complex data into executive insights.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across matrix organizations and navigate complex stakeholder relationships.
• Experience in senior finance roles within global companies with multi-country responsibility and demonstrated cross-cultural effectiveness.
• Experience in Financial Services industry with demonstrated understanding of complex business models.
• Demonstrated expertise in change management and project leadership, with ability to guide teams through complex transformations and achieve measurable outcomes.
• Exceptional storytelling abilities with experience building compelling narratives for executive audiences and translating financial insights into strategic business recommendations.

S&P Global US

S&P Global US is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance).

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in New York, Chicago, Dallas and Colorado.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance