Senior Principal, Finance Strategy

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🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $175k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Pearson VUE

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

Education • eCommerce • SaaS

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Lead enterprise-wide finance transformation at Pearson, shaping strategy, operating model, and digital evolution to enable a more agile, insight-led, and AI-enabled finance function. • Partner with the Group Finance Officer to define, refine, and operationalise the finance strategy in alignment with broader corporate and business unit priorities • Translate strategic vision into a clear, executable finance operating model, including defined accountabilities across global, business unit, and functional finance teams • Drive alignment between financial planning, performance management, and value creation priorities across the organisation • Clarify the role of finance as both an owner and enabler of performance, embedding best-in-class principles for accountability and decision support • Lead a portfolio of enterprise finance transformation initiatives spanning global processes, systems, data governance, and business assurance • Establish and run a structured program governance model, with clear milestones, delivery plans, and value realisation tracking • Identify and remove barriers to execution, ensuring transformation initiatives deliver at pace and with measurable impact • Act as the integrator across initiatives, ensuring a connected, end-to-end transformation rather than fragmented delivery • Drive the adoption of automation, advanced analytics, and AI across finance to improve efficiency, forecasting, and decision support • Partner with Technology and Data teams to prioritise finance system investments aligned to strategic outcomes • Champion the shift toward real-time, data-driven finance capabilities, reducing manual processes and enhancing predictive insight • Ensure digital initiatives are embedded into day-to-day ways of working, not just deployed as standalone tools • Act as a key interface between finance leadership, business unit leaders, and central functions to align priorities and drive trade-offs • Influence executive-level stakeholders to prioritise transformation initiatives and commit the necessary resources • Provide strategic insight and challenge, positioning finance as a proactive partner in enterprise performance • Build strong cross-functional relationships to enable faster, more effective decision-making • Lead the overall change narrative for finance transformation, translating strategy into a clear, compelling story for the organisation • Design and deliver structured change management approaches to ensure adoption of new processes, tools, and behaviours • Engage and mobilise the finance community, building momentum and commitment to transformation goals • Ensure communication is consistent, outcome-focused, and reinforces accountability and progress • Build and develop capability across the finance organisation in program delivery, digital finance, and strategic partnering • Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement across teams

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience in transformation, strategy, or operating model design within a large, complex organisation • Demonstrated track record of delivering enterprise-wide transformation programmes with measurable business impact • Strong strategic leadership capability, with the ability to link finance strategy to enterprise value creation • Experience leading complex, multi-year programmes across systems, processes, and organisational structures • Deep understanding of financial performance, profitability drivers, and capital allocation principles • Expertise in operating model design, including governance, processes, and accountability frameworks • Exceptional ability to influence and align executive stakeholders across functions • Strong change leadership capability, with experience driving behavioural as well as structural change • Experience working with enterprise systems, data transformation, and digital finance capabilities • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex strategy into clear, actionable narratives.

🏖️ Benefits

• This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program • Information on benefits offered is here.