Sr. Manager, Finance & Value Realization

This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/13821936\ \ Overview\ Due to growth, we are adding a Sr. Manager, Finance & Value Realization to our team! The Sr. Manager, Finance & Value Realization serves as a strategic finance partner responsible for strengthening financial discipline, business case governance, portfolio performance, and value realization across enterprise transformation investments. This position partners with finance, transformation, technology, operations, legal, compliance, and business leaders to evaluate initiative economics, monitor financial performance, and provide executive-ready insights that support prioritization, investment decisions, and accountable delivery of transformation value. The Sr. Manager, Finance & Value Realization owns the financial discipline and value realization routines for transformation investments; it does not replace business owner accountability for achieving operational outcomes. The Sr. Manager partners with FP&A to ensure transformation impacts are reflected in forecasts, financial plans, and enterprise performance reporting. This role partners with Transformation Operations on portfolio visibility, path-to-green planning, and executive reporting, with a specific focus on financial impact and value realization. From time to time, this role may take on additional finance, transformation, or enterprise initiatives at the direction of the Director of FP&A. Is this you? Find out more below! \ \ Responsibilities\ How do I make an impact on my team? - Evaluate transformation investment requests, business cases, funding proposals, and Board-approved initiatives. - Review financial assumptions, expected outcomes, timing, dependencies, risks, and return profiles. - Establish standardized financial governance routines for transformation funding, performance monitoring, and investment tradeoff decisions. - Develop financial models, ROI analyses, and scenario assessments for transformation investments and enterprise initiatives. - Quantify costs, benefits, risks, dependencies, and expected financial returns to support investment decisions. - Partner with FP&A and business teams to reflect transformation impacts in forecasts, budgets, and enterprise performance reporting. - Challenge effort estimates, vendor quotes, and resourcing plans to ensure costs reflect delivery complexity and support informed tradeoff decisions. - Monitor transformation spend, forecasts, variance drivers, milestone timing, and financial performance against approved funding. - Support path-to-green planning when initiative outcomes, timing, or investment performance are at risk. - Develop portfolio financial reporting, dashboards, and executive summaries that highlight performance, risks, and decision points. - Serve as the finance partner to transformation governance, portfolio reviews, and value stream financial discussions. - Partner with FP&A, Accounting, Treasury, Strategy, Transformation Operations, and business leaders to ensure financial consistency and transparency. - Serve as a bridge between Finance, Operations, Technology, Legal, and Compliance to integrate financial oversight, risk management, and regulatory considerations into transformation strategy. - Other duties as assigned. \ \ Qualifications\ What our team expects\ \ \ Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.\ \ PI287927632