Edwards Lifesciences is hiring a Director, Finance Strategic Projects to lead critical financial integration initiatives. You will be responsible for guiding end-to-end finance-led integration for acquired businesses, ensuring alignment with our financial, operational, and cultural objectives. This role serves as a key orchestrator of cross-functional efforts, providing governance and strategic insights directly to senior leadership.
What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end integration programs for acquired businesses, ensuring alignment with financial, operational, and cultural objectives.
- Establish and manage a Finance Integration Office/Council, providing governance, structure, and visibility across all finance-related integration workstreams.
- Partner with Corporate Development, Finance, HR, IT, and business units to ensure timely execution of integration milestones.
- Translate deal rationale into actionable financial integration plans, including P&L alignment, reporting structures, and performance tracking.
- Facilitate the development and approval of complex business cases and ensure financial targets are embedded in integration plans.
- Provide strategic insights to senior leadership on integration risks, opportunities, and value realization.
- Drive the digital enablement of integration processes, including automation of reporting, data migration, and system harmonization.
- Collaborate with IT and Finance Systems teams to implement tools that support scalable integration and performance monitoring.
- Identify and champion digital innovations that enhance integration speed, accuracy, and transparency.
- Develop and manage integration related milestone plans, ensuring scope, quality, schedule, and cost are controlled across all initiatives.
- Lead Finance Integration Council including program governance, reporting, and change management activities to ensure stakeholder alignment and accountability.
- Optimize resource allocation across the integration portfolio in partnership with functional and regional leaders.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including executive sponsors and acquired finance leadership teams.
- Serve as a mentor and subject matter expert in program management, integration strategy, and finance transformation.
- Lead post-close reviews and lessons learned to continuously improve integration playbooks and practices.
What We're Looking For
- A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business or related field.
- A minimum of twelve years (or ten years with a Master's) of hands-on experience managing large to midsize projects and/or programs of increasing complexity.
Nice to Have
- MBA or PMP certification.
- Experience in program management, finance transformation, or Post-Merger Integration.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in complex, global environments.
- Strong understanding of financial planning, reporting, and operational processes.
- Experience with digital tools and platforms that support integration and performance management.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salaries.
- Performance-based incentives.
- Wide variety of benefits programs.
- Compensation range: $156,000 to $221,000.
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
