Vice President – Director Corporate Functional Partner – Enterprise Functional Platforms

We are seeking an experienced Vice President – Director Corporate Functional Partner for Back-Office Systems. This role serves as the technology and business partner for Corporate/Back Office functions (e.g., Finance, HR, Legal, Communications and related shared services), reporting to the Vice President Managing Director of Technology Production Operations. The Corporate Functional Partner (VP/Director) enables simple, common, enterprise-leverage platforms and capabilities while ensuring each function’s unique needs are understood, challenged appropriately, and met through scalable, secure, and compliant solutions. The role blends consultative partnership, product/platform leadership, and cross-functional influence to deliver outcomes that improve productivity, reduce complexity, and strengthen enterprise governance.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted partnerships with senior leaders across Finance, HR, Legal, Communications, and other corporate functions to understand strategies, priorities, and pain points and translate them into a clear technology enablement approach.
• Lead discovery and requirements shaping with functional stakeholders by clarifying desired business outcomes, simplifying where possible, and ensuring requirements align to enterprise standards and reusable capabilities.
• Own the functional technology roadmap across corporate domains, balancing enterprise platform leverage with function-specific needs, and ensuring priorities are aligned with business value and organizational capacity.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for end-to-end delivery across corporate functional initiatives, coordinating across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Data, Vendor Management, and Change/Training teams.
• Champion platform rationalization and standardization by reducing duplicative tools, driving adoption of common capabilities, leveraging cloud capabilities & modern technologies and enabling consistent processes, controls, and reporting.
• Establish and run governance forums (e.g., functional technology councils, steering committees, intake/prioritization cadences) to drive transparency, decision-making, funding alignment, and risk management.
• Collaborate with functional teams to evaluate solution options, including process redesign, configuration-first approaches, system enhancements & upgrades, and integration opportunities, bringing practical recommendations to the table.
• Collaborate with Technology teams to ensure non-functional requirements are defined and implemented into the platforms that enable the functional technology.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders to ensure solutions meet regulatory obligations, audit expectations, data protection standards, and internal controls (including segregation of duties where applicable).
• Manage vendor and partner relationships for relevant enterprise platforms and tools, including performance management, contract neogiation & alignment, roadmap influence, and cost/value optimization.
• Define success measures (OKRs/KPIs) for functional and technology outcomes, track benefits realization, and continuously improve services based on adoption, user experience, operational stability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead and mentor a team (directly or through matrixed leadership) to deliver consistent stakeholder engagement, high-quality execution, and strong operational rigor.
  
  

Key Skills

• Executive-level business partnering with the ability to influence, challenge constructively, and align diverse stakeholder priorities.
• Strong product and platform mindset, with experience driving standardization, reuse, and enterprise leverage while meeting domain-specific needs.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate between business, technical, and risk/compliance audiences.
• Proven experience in roadmap development, intake/prioritization, and portfolio execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Knowledge of enterprise platforms and corporate function systems (e.g., ERP/financial systems, HRIS/HCM, collaboration and communications platforms, contract lifecycle management, GRC tools).
• Proven experience with program and project management, able to lead cross-functional delivery through matrixed teams using Agile and/or hybrid delivery methods.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including process mapping, root cause analysis, and benefits/value modeling.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (or equivalent relevant experience).
• 10 years of progressive experience in technology, product/platform leadership, or business technology partnership roles, including enterprise-scale delivery.
• 5 years leading teams and/or large cross-functional programs with significant stakeholder complexity.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with corporate functions such as Finance, HR, Legal, Communications, Procurement, Risk/Compliance, or similar shared services.
• Experience working in a regulated industry (financial services strongly preferred) with familiarity navigating compliance, audit, privacy, and security expectations.
• Proven ability to drive platform standardization and simplification while maintaining strong customer experience and functional outcomes.
• Experience managing third-party vendors and enterprise software relationships (contracts, performance, roadmap alignment).