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About the Role

The North America Finance Transformation Lead is a high-impact individual contributor role responsible for orchestrating and delivering a targeted portfolio of approximately 120 Finance 2.0 initiatives across Record-to-Report (R2R), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and Payroll within the region. This role drives focused execution in North America to deliver measurable productivity outcomes and provides ongoing support during the transition to the future operating model.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end orchestration of a ~120-project Finance 2.0 portfolio across R2R, O2C, P2P, and Payroll, ensuring alignment with global priorities and regional business needs.
Translate high-level program objectives from the global PMO into clear, executable regional plans with defined milestones, deliverables, and success criteria.
Actively manage cross-tower dependencies, sequencing, and critical paths to ensure integrated and timely delivery across all initiatives.
Drive execution discipline by establishing clear accountability, tracking progress at a granular level, and intervening where delivery risks emerge.
Ensure consistency in execution approach across initiatives, promoting standardization while enabling flexibility for business unit-specific needs.
Serve as the primary North America interface to the global PMO, ensuring alignment on governance frameworks, delivery standards, tools, and reporting expectations.
Operationalize global methodologies, templates, and cadence within the NA portfolio to drive consistency and transparency.
Provide detailed, data-driven insights into regional execution performance, including progress against milestones, risks, issues, and dependencies.
Actively contribute to global program discussions, representing NA priorities, constraints, and opportunities to ensure balanced decision-making.
Ensure NA initiatives are fully integrated into the broader global program plan, avoiding duplication and managing cross-regional dependencies.
Own the identification, tracking, and realization of productivity improvements across the portfolio, ensuring each initiative delivers measurable business value.
Define clear benefit metrics (e.g., efficiency gains, cost savings, cycle time reduction, quality improvements) and embed them into execution plans.
Establish robust tracking mechanisms to monitor benefits realization over time, ensuring sustainability beyond initial implementation.
Challenge and refine business cases to maximize value delivery and eliminate low-impact activities.
Provide regular, transparent reporting on productivity outcomes to leadership, highlighting achievements, gaps, and corrective actions.
Provide hands-on leadership during key transition phases, including pre-go-live readiness, cutover, stabilization, and post-implementation support.
Proactively identify risks across initiatives, business units, and process towers, assessing both delivery and operational impacts.
Develop and implement mitigation strategies to address risks early, minimizing disruption to ongoing finance operations.
Ensure strong issue management discipline, including root cause analysis, escalation, and timely resolution.
Support business continuity by closely monitoring operational performance during transition and intervening as needed.
Act as the central integrator across retained finance teams, operating business units, MGSF, D&T, and external partners to ensure coordinated execution.
Align stakeholders on priorities, scope, timelines, and trade-offs, balancing competing demands in a complex, matrixed environment.
Influence without direct authority to drive decisions, remove roadblocks, and maintain momentum across initiatives.
Ensure appropriate resource allocation and utilization across the portfolio, identifying capacity gaps and escalating where necessary.
Foster strong cross-functional relationships to enable collaboration, accountability, and shared ownership of outcomes.
Drive transformation execution across all finance process towers (R2R, O2C, P2P, Payroll), ensuring equal focus and rigor across domains.
Partner with process owners, tower leads, and technology teams to deliver standardized, harmonized, and optimized finance processes.
Ensure initiatives leverage automation, digital tools, and data capabilities to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
Identify cross-tower improvement opportunities and ensure solutions are designed with end-to-end process integration in mind.
Maintain a strong focus on simplifying and streamlining operations to support the future-state operating model.
Support and reinforce change management strategies to drive adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure readiness for change, including training, communication, and transition planning.
Monitor adoption and performance post-implementation, addressing gaps to ensure sustained outcomes.
Promote a mindset of continuous improvement, encouraging teams to identify and act on optimization opportunities.
Ensure that transformation outcomes are fully embedded into business-as-usual operations and deliver long-term value.

Requirements

Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.
Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading, writing, and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.
Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form and to solve problems involving several variables.

Skills

Finance transformation
Finance operations
Large-scale program delivery
R2R processes
O2C processes
P2P processes
Payroll processes
Shared services (GBS)
BPO providers
Technology implementation partners
ERP transformation programs
Finance transformation programs
SAP
Oracle
Workday
Program management
Portfolio management
Stakeholder management
Influencing skills
Analytical skills
Financial acumen
Benefits tracking
Performance measurement
Communication skills
Executive stakeholder engagement
Adaptability
Ownership
Managing competing priorities

Location

New York, NY
Vancouver, WA
Santa Monica, CA

Work Type

Full time
Onsite

Experience Level

10+ years of experience in finance transformation, finance operations, or large-scale program delivery in a global organization
Proven ability to manage complex, multi-project portfolios with high levels of interdependency

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
MBA, CPA, CMA, PMP, or equivalent certification preferred
Formal project/program management training or certification strongly preferred

Salary/Compensations

$154,440.00 - $241,312.50
$154,440- $265,444

Benefits

Competitive salary with paid time off & holidays
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your loved ones.
Fertility and family-building assistance.
Paid Parental leave.
Practice Paid Basic Life Insurance.
Practice Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability.
Automatic enrollment 401(k) Savings Plan after 60 days of employment with generous company match.
Commuter Benefits.
Legal Plan.
Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Account.
Mental health support and resources.
Paid Volunteering.
Optimum Wellness Plans® for up to three pets.
Continuing Education allowance & MED hours for eligible positions.
Student Debt Relief (for full-time DVMs).
A Variety of discounts including Mars, PetSmart, Royal Canin, fitness, cellular and so much more.

About the Company

As part of the Mars Petcare family of businesses, Mars Veterinary Health is a global network of veterinary practices made possible by 75,000 Associates who care for millions of pets across nearly 3,000 clinics in more than 20 countries each year.
We are committed to leveraging our reach to make a long-term positive impact on people, pets, and the planet and know our Purpose – A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS – starts with the people who care for them.
We strive to offer unparalleled veterinary care for pets by first and foremost enabling and empowering our Associates to do what they love, whether in primary, specialty, and emergency care or management and leadership.
Mars Veterinary Health (MVH)® strongly supports and values the uniqueness of all individuals and promotes a work environment where diversity is embraced.

Equal Opportunity

WE ARE A DRUG-FREE, SMOKE-FREE, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
MVH is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
MVH complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every MVH location.