Director Financial Operations Jobs in Washington

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Finance

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Data Governance, Financial Systems, System Implementations

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

The Director, Financial Systems Operations provides strategic leadership for the organization's financial systems, enterprise reporting, financial applications, and operational support functions. This position is responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, continuous improvement, and effective utilization of enterprise financial systems that support accounting, finance, contracts, projects, procurement, and business operations.

This individual is responsible for the strategy, governance, optimization, and operational support of the organization's financial systems ecosystem. This leader partners with Finance, IT, Accounting, FP&A, Procurement, HR, and external vendors to ensure financial applications are stable, scalable, compliant, and aligned with business objectives.

The ideal candidate combines deep financial systems expertise with operational leadership, enterprise application management, automation, and financial process improvement experience.

Leads a multidisciplinary organization responsible for financial systems administration, business applications, reporting and analytics, user support, governance, and business process improvement while partnering closely with Finance, Information Technology, Contracts, Human Resources, Strategic Acquisition, Internal Audit, and other business leadership. The position oversees multiple managers and supervisors supporting approximately 25 employees and provides leadership for major enterprise initiatives, system implementations, upgrades, integrations, and operational excellence efforts.

How the Director, Financial Systems Operations will make an impact:

• Develop and execute the long-term strategy for enterprise financial systems.

• Develop and execute the financial systems roadmap aligned with corporate strategy.

• Lead day-to-day operations of ERP and support financial applications.

• Ensure system reliability, performance, security, and availability.

• Manage system upgrades, releases, patches, and enhancements.

• Ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of mission-critical financial applications.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, automation, internal controls, and user experience.

• Establish governance processes for application changes, prioritization, testing, and production deployments.

• Foster collaboration between Finance, IT, and business organizations to deliver integrated business solutions.

• Lead organizational change management, communications, and user adoption for new technologies.

• Sponsor innovation through automation, analytics, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, audit standards, and corporate policies.

Key Partnerships

• Partner with Finance leadership to improve accounting and reporting processes.

• Collaborate with IT on architecture, integrations, cybersecurity, and infrastructure.

• Translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Financial Operations

• Support:

  • Labor & timekeeping

  • General Ledger

  • Accounts Payable

  • Accounts Receivable/Billing

  • Fixed Assets

  • Revenue Recognition

  • Procurement

  • Expense Management

  • FP&A

  • Financial system integrations

System Administration

• Oversee:

  • ERP (Oracle) administration

  • User provisioning

  • Security roles

  • Workflow configuration

  • Master data governance

  • Change management & training

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

The Director, Financial Systems Operations must have:
Education: Bachelor's degree required
10+ years of related finance/IT experience

Experience managing ERP implementations or major system upgrades

Experience supporting organizations with $500M+ annual revenue preferred

Experience working within public companies or SOX-regulated environments

Experience in a leadership capacity managing a team or leading major projects
US Person

Location: Hybrid to GDIT Falls Church or Herndon, VA office with an expectation of working 3 days/week in office

Technical Skills:

Knowledge of ERP Platforms & Business Intelligence & Reporting:

Examples include:

• Oracle Analytics Server (OAS)

• Power BI

• Tableau

• SQL

• Oracle: EBusiness Suite or Fusion Cloud ERP

• Workday

Security & Compliance:

Measurable knowledge & experience with:

• SOX controls

• Segregation of Duties (SoD)

• Audit support

• Identity & Access Management

• Change Management

• Data Governance

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Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
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The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 - $215,004. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA VA Falls Church

Additional Work Locations:

USA VA Herndon

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

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