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New York, NY Alpharetta, GA Chicago, IL Red Bank, New Jersey Princeton, NJ London - Scalpel Full time REQ06758 This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital - a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance. We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture.
As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry. At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.
Job Description: Head of Finance Transformation Reporting To: Chief Financial Officer About the Team The Finance function at AXIS plays a central role in enabling enterprise strategy, capital stewardship, regulatory integrity, and performance insight. As AXIS continues to evolve, Finance is undertaking significant transformation to modernize its operating model, strengthen scalability and controls, and enhance its strategic contribution to the business.
This role sits within the CFO organization and operates as a senior Finance transformation leader, working alongside the CFO and Finance Leadership Team to modernize Finance processes, capabilities, systems and ways of working across a multi-year horizon. How does this role contribute to our collective success? The Head of Finance Transformation is accountable for shaping and delivering the Finance transformation strategy and roadmap in line with Finance priorities and AXIS business objectives.
Acting as the CFO's senior adviser on Finance transformation, the role ensures Finance has the operating model, capabilities, technology and ways of working needed to support AXIS's strategic objectives over a multi-year horizon. The role exists to improve Finance's scalability, decision support, control maturity and adoption of modernized ways of working, helping Finance operate as a more integrated and insight-driven partner to the business.
Scope Transformation is delivered through functional leadership, not around it. The role develops and recommends Finance transformation standards, target-state designs, and prioritization approaches, while execution accountability remains with Finance functional leaders. The role partners across Finance (e.g., FP&A, Controllership, Finance Operations, Treasury, Investor Relations, Tax, and other Finance teams) and with enterprise partners (BTS, Data, Operations, Underwriting, Actuarial, Risk, and others) to drive integrated solutions and consistent adoption of the future state.
The role owns the Finance transformation strategy, roadmap, governance and benefits framework. The Chief of Staff integrates transformation progress, dependencies and decisions into the broader CFO agenda and executive operating cadence. What will you do in this role? Define and maintain the Finance Transformation strategy, roadmap, and target operating model aligned to Finance priorities and approved investment plans.
Serve as the senior Finance transformation adviser to the CFO, providing recommendations on transformation investment, capability development, modernization priorities and key decisions requiring CFO or Finance Leadership Team direction. Shape and coordinate the Finance technology, data and analytics roadmap in partnership with BTS, Data and Risk, embedding advanced analytics and AI-enabled capabilities into Finance workflows such a