Manager, Finance Transformation

Role Summary

The Manager, Transformation & Change Management is a high-impact operational lead, responsible for driving complex business transformation, organizational change, and process optimization across Uber’s global CAO organization and cross-functional partners (Strategic Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, and Tech).

What You Will Do

Lead End-to-End Strategic Transformation Initiatives: Proactively identify process inefficiencies, define visionary target states, and pitch actionable transformation roadmaps. Lead emerging, high-priority projects across the CAO organization as business needs evolve, spanning Tax, Revenue Recognition, Op. Ex, and Core Accounting operations.

Drive High-Friction Initiatives: Partner directly with cross-functional groups to align on shared goals, articulate functional benefits, and manage BAU impact. Lead CAO Process Diagnostics: Animate structured workshops to benchmark current accounting workflows, identify process friction, opportunities to optimize tool utilization, and define pragmatic target-state roadmaps.

Stakeholder Alignment & Influence: Build trust across all levels of the CAO, FP&A, and Tech organizations; capability to "command a room without authority" and turn vocal skeptics into transformation champions. Lead Cross-Functional Change Strategy: Design and execute end-to-end change management strategies for high-impact accounting transformations, including stakeholder impact analyses, communication strategies, and training programs.

What You Will Need

7–10+ years of hands-on accounting and finance experience, including experience undergoing changes and supporting the transformation initiatives within the business. Understands the impact on business teams in going through complex financial transformations with heavy cross-functional dependencies and can propose a change plan that will align project milestones with engagement and adoption.

Technical Program Management Depth: Possess sufficient technical finance and accounting system knowledge to effectively manage program lifecycles, proactively surface hidden architectural risks, and collaborate directly with IT, engineering, and business teams to engineer pragmatic solutions. Outstanding negotiation, workshop facilitation, and verbal/written communication skills; ability to build compelling, data-backed executive presentations.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong foundational knowledge of core finance cycles including RTR, S2P (Procure-to-Pay / Order-to-Cash), and Tax architectures. Global & Cross-Cultural Project Leadership: Demonstrated track record of leading complex project management across multiple time zones and geographically dispersed teams, with the cultural fluency to navigate communication nuances, foster cross-regional trust, and align diverse global stakeholders.

AI Fluency: Experience leveraging AI to accelerate program delivery and to automate processes.