Finance Futurist
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.
Qualifications
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Business (MBA preferred)
- 10+ years of experience (in Finance or Biopharma preferred)
- Proven ability to see beyond the present, anticipate future financial trends, and develop proactive strategies
- Strong understanding of corporate finance, business models, and industry dynamics
- Experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives within Finance or related functions with a track record of driving cultural and operational change
- Deep knowledge of emerging finance technologies
- Experience implementing data-driven decision-making tools and methodologies
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence C-suite, cross-functional leaders and cross-cultural teams
- Passion for continuous learning, adaptability, and a future-oriented mindset
- Experience with SAP, particularly S/4HANA, is a strong advantage
- Experience with data strategies and advanced data management platforms that support data mesh architecture
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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