Finance Transformation Specialist

What Timken makes possible begins with you.
Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.
A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.
Purpose:
The Finance Transformation Specialist advances the global Finance organization’s transformation strategy by connecting finance processes, data, systems, and technology. This role partners with Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities, define business and data requirements, and deliver scalable analytics, automation, and technology-enabled solutions that improve decision-making, efficiency, governance, and business insight.
Essential Responsibilities:
Technology Strategy
Partner with Finance leadership to identify and implement process improvement, automation, and digital transformation opportunities that improve efficiency, controls, and business outcomes.
Lead project workstreams and support enterprise initiatives involving ERP, consolidation, planning, reporting, and finance technologies.
Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies to improve business processes, decision making, and financial insights.
Data & Technology Enablement
Partner with Finance, IT, and data teams to define finance data requirements, business data models, and reporting structures that support planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics.
Collaborate with IT and automation teams to deliver scalable reporting, analytics, and technology solutions that improve data accessibility, governance, quality, consistency and decision making.
Project Management & Stakeholder Engagement
Lead project workstreams and collaborate with Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to deliver strategic transformation initiatives.
Manage project scope, deliverables, timelines, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
Facilitate workshops and requirements gathering sessions to document business needs, define future-state processes, and develop business requirements.
Center of Excellence
Promote knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and adoption of emerging technologies across the Finance organization.
Serve as a trusted advisor on finance systems, analytics, data management, automation, AI, and transformation best practices.
Support change management, training, and adoption activities associated with new processes, systems, and technologies.
Technical/Functional Skills:
Required:
Experience working with ERP, financial consolidation, planning, reporting, or finance systems; examples may include SAP, OneStream, Blackline, Power BI, or similar platforms.
Strong understanding of finance processes, data flows, reporting requirements, and system-enabled process improvement.
Ability to translate business needs into clear requirements for data, analytics, reporting automation, and technology solutions.
Experience analyzing and leveraging data from multiple business systems to support reporting, planning, forecasting, and decision making.
Ability to lead workstreams or cross-functional initiatives involving Finance, IT, and business stakeholders.
Strong analytical, critical thinking, communication, and continuous improvement skills.
Preferred:
Working knowledge of data architecture, data modeling, data governance, cloud data platforms, data lakes, or semantic models and the ability to partner effectively with IT and data teams.
Exposure to AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, or advanced analytics use cases in a finance or business environment.
Experience supporting finance transformation, data modernization, reporting automation, digital finance, or process improvement initiatives.
Familiarity with Power BI, SQL, Azure, Databricks, or similar data and analytics platforms.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or similar field. Preferred: Master's degree in Business Administration, Business/Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or similar field.
7 years of experience in supporting finance processes, reporting, analytics, process improvement, leading workstreams, or transformation initiatives. Preferred: 10 years of experience.
This position may require access to United States export controlled technical data (“CTD”) and hardware under the Departments of US State (ITAR) and/or Commerce (EAR). Eligible candidates are; US Citizens, Green Card holders, Asylees or others eligible to receive US export license authorizations. Candidate must be authorized to work in the US.
All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be