Lead, GBS - Finance Transformation

Job description

Manage and coordinate the company's financial function, including general accounting, cost management, budgeting, and payroll, in accordance with corporate policies and procedures to meet the company’s business requirements. This is the top finance position for a specific location, but it is governed by policies and frameworks established by the larger corporation. ## Job Description **Position at a Glance** The **Global Finance Lead** is a key leader in the Mexico City Global Capability Center (GCC), overseeing teams that support Global Finance across the AI Finance Capability, Reporting and Data Foundations, and IT FP&A. This role connects global priorities and programs to disciplined execution, ensuring that solutions, reporting services, and financial routines are delivered consistently, on time, and in line with global standards. The role is accountable for leading teams that translate direction into high-quality outcomes across three critical areas. For the AI Finance Capability, this includes coordinating and aligning on priorities set by the global team and ensuring the effective delivery of enabling platforms, tools, automation, and agents. For Reporting and Data Foundations, the role ensures that Global Finance sponsored initiatives and standards are executed effectively, supporting consistent reporting and a trusted data foundation across markets. For IT FP&A, the role ensures strong support for IT financial routines for processes such as ZBB and CAPEX. This position provides an outstanding opportunity to combine finance, technology, and people leadership in a fast-evolving transformation environment. The role not only delivers high-impact solutions and services, but also coaches and develops a team of finance professionals while building strong partnerships across global, regional, and cross-functional stakeholders. The ideal candidate combines strong FP&A and finance operations knowledge with proven experience leading teams, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and driving technology-enabled finance transformation initiatives . **What’s on Menu?** - Lead and develop three Finance teams supporting the AI Finance Capability, Reporting and Data Foundations, and IT FP&A, ensuring strong performance, engagement, and capability building - Partner closely with global stakeholders to align on priorities, timelines, and expected outcomes, ensuring that local teams remain focused on the highest-value work - Oversee the team supporting the AI Finance Capability, ensuring effective coordination around priorities set by the global team and successful delivery of solutions spanning platform architecture, data pipelines, semantic model layers, shared agent frameworks, evaluation standards, audit-trail requirements, and agent development - Ensure AI Finance deliverables are scalable, controlled, and aligned with enterprise data, governance, and operational expectations - Lead the team supporting the Reporting and Data Foundations pillar, ensuring that projects and priorities led by global roles are executed effectively and translated into consistent, high-quality services and outputs - Bridge day-to-day reporting execution with global reporting standards, enabling reliable financial insights and a trusted data foundation across markets and sub-pillars - Oversee support for IT FP&A business partners, ensuring financial routines related to ZBB and CAPEX are delivered in alignment with global due dates, standards, and governance requirements - Build strong relationships across Global Finance, GCC, technology teams, and business partners to resolve issues, align dependencies, and accelerate delivery - Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and effective controls across reporting, data, automation, and finance support processes within the role’s scope - Coach and develop a team of finance professionals, strengthening technical expertise, leadership capability, and readiness for future growth opportunities - Influence stakeholders through clear communication, structured problem-solving, and credible finance and transformation leadership **Recipe for Success – apply now if this sounds like you!** 1. Education - Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Engineering or a related field; 2. Experience - 10+ years of experience in FP&A with relevant exposure to Finance Transformation and Technology projects; - Proven experience of overseeing large analytics teams and developing people leaders and analysts; - Good knowledge of enterprise reporting platforms and modern self-service analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Snowflake, LLM); - Solid practical ERP systems knowledge (SAP, Oracle, etc.); - Professional finance designation (FPCA, CPA, CMA, CGA) and/or MBA in Finance would be an asset; - Relevant background developed in CPG industry; 3. Skills - Finance and FP&A expertise - Leadership of complex teams - Cross-functional stakeholder management - Execution within a global operating model - Finance transformation leadership - AI, automation, and digital enablement acumen - Strategic prioritization and problem-solving - Communication, influence, and talent development ## Location(s) Mexico City - Antara Tower A - 5th Floor - Local Office **Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes****.**