Finance Transformation Manager

Main Responsibility 

The Finance Innovation & AI Lead will define and drive Getnet’s finance innovation agenda, leading the identification, prioritization, design, and scaling of high-value transformation opportunities across global finance teams. The role will combine deep understanding of finance processes with strong digital and AI fluency to improve efficiency, insight generation, control, and decision-making across the finance function. 

This person will act as the bridge between Finance, Technology, Data, Operations, and external partners, ensuring that innovation initiatives are aligned to business priorities, governance requirements, and measurable outcomes. The ideal candidate combines strong finance transformation experience, strategic thinking, structured problem solving, and the ability to lead change across multiple countries and stakeholders. This builds directly on the finance-process and tech-bridging focus already present in your current draft, while making the role explicitly accountable for innovation and AI agenda ownership. 

Key Responsibilities 

1) Finance Transformation & Process Redesign 

• Assess and redesign end-to-end finance processes across key domains such as R2R, P2P, O2C, FP&A, Treasury, reporting, and controls. 

• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, manual activities, fragmentation, control gaps, and opportunities for standardization. 

• Define target-state processes that improve productivity, quality, transparency, and decision support. 

• Quantify opportunities through KPIs such as cycle time, error rates, manual effort, service quality, and business impact. 

2) Finance Innovation & AI Portfolio Leadership 

• Define and maintain the Finance Innovation & AI roadmap aligned with strategic business priorities. 

• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize initiatives across automation, advanced analytics, AI, workflow digitization, intelligent document processing, reconciliation, forecasting, and decision-support use cases. 

• Build business cases and prioritization criteria based on value, feasibility, scalability, risk, and adoption potential. 

• Distinguish clearly between quick wins, pilot initiatives, and strategic capabilities that should be scaled across the organization. 

3) Use-Case Shaping & Solution Translation 

• Translate finance problems and opportunities into clear business requirements, use-case definitions, and solution hypotheses. 

• Partner with Technology, Data, Architecture, and external vendors to shape scalable and practical solutions. 

• Ensure that proposed solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture, data availability, controls, and long-term maintainability. 

• Challenge technical proposals constructively to ensure business relevance and measurable value, without being a hands-on engineering role. 

4) Governance, Risk & Value Realization 

• Embed governance, auditability, control, and data quality requirements into finance innovation initiatives. 

• Ensure solutions are designed and deployed in line with internal standards, regulatory expectations, and operational resilience needs. 

• Define metrics to monitor performance, adoption, benefits realization, and control effectiveness. 

• Track outcomes and ensure successful initiatives move from concept or pilot to scaled business adoption. 

5) Cross-Functional Orchestration 

• Act as the central point of coordination across Finance, Technology, Data, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and external partners. 

• Align senior stakeholders around priorities, scope, business case, and target outcomes. 

• Facilitate decision-making across functions and countries to remove blockers and accelerate execution. 

• Support the creation of an effective operating model for finance innovation and AI within Getnet. 

6) Change Management & Adoption 

• Lead stakeholder engagement across multiple countries and levels of seniority. 

• Facilitate workshops to identify pain points, define priorities, and align on future-state solutions. 

• Drive communication, training, and adoption plans for new processes and digital tools. 

• Build digital and AI literacy within finance teams and promote a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. 

Experience 

• 8+ years of experience in Finance, Finance Transformation, Process Excellence, Digital Transformation, or related areas. 

• Proven track record leading complex cross-functional initiatives in finance transformation or finance innovation. 

• Strong experience in redesigning finance processes and delivering measurable business improvement. 

• Experience identifying and implementing automation, analytics, or AI-enabled opportunities in business environments. 

• Experience working across business and technology teams in multinational or multi-country environments. 

• Experience in payments, financial services, fintech, or regulated environments is a strong plus. 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. 

• Master’s degree or MBA preferred. 

Technical / Functional Competencies 

• Strong understanding of core finance processes. 

• Strong understanding of finance transformation levers, including standardization, automation, operating model redesign, self-service analytics, and AI-enabled workflows. 

• Strong analytical skills and ability to build business cases, define KPIs, and prioritize initiatives. 

• Ability to bring business cases and wishes from departments to life. 

• Ability to translate business needs into structured requirements for technical teams and vendors. 

• Good understanding of governance, risk, controls, and data quality considerations in finance-related digital initiatives. 

• Strong technology fluency is essential. 

Leadership / Soft Skills 

• Strategic mindset with strong business judgment. 

• Excellent structured problem-solving capabilities. 

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills. 

• Ability to work across functions, geographies, and levels of seniority. 

• Strong communication and workshop facilitation skills. 

• High degree of curiosity, ownership, and innovation mindset. 

• Ability to manage ambiguity and move initiatives from concept to adoption. 

Other Relevant Information 

• Willingness to travel internationally up to 20% of the time. 

• Fluent in English and Spanish. 

• Portuguese is a plus.