Director FP&A - Automations and AI

Why Choose Bottomline? Are you ready to transform the way businesses pay and get paid? Bottomline is a global leader in business payments and cash management, with over 35 years of experience and moving more than $16 trillion in payments annually. We're looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help drive impactful results for our customers. If you're dedicated to delighting customers and promoting growth and innovation - we want you on our team! Job Title: Director, Finance Technology & Analytics Role: COE – Tech Team Location: Bengaluru Job Summary: We’re seeking a strategic and driven Director, Finance of Technology & Analytics, to join our dynamic Global Finance Team. This is more than a numbers role – it’s a chance to shape the financial future of a fast-growing company. The successful candidate will lead the technology, systems, data, analytics, and transformation agenda for the FP&A organization. This role will serve as the strategic bridge between Finance, Data, Engineering, and IT, with accountability for the FP&A technology roadmap, platform strategy, data governance, automation, analytics, and transformation delivery. The Director will lead the FP&A technology team and drive scalable, reliable, and well-controlled capabilities across planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision support, enabling FP&A to operate more efficiently and deliver stronger business insights. This is your chance to be part of a high-impact team where your insights will shape strategy and fuel growth. We value innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning—and we’re excited to grow with you. Key Responsibilities: • FP&A Technology Strategy: Own and execute the FP&A technology and transformation roadmap, aligning investments and priorities with Finance and business objectives. • Planning Systems: Provide strategic ownership and governance of Workday Adaptive Planning and related planning capabilities supporting budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, workforce planning, and scenario analysis. • Analytics & Reporting: Lead the FP&A analytics strategy across Power BI, OfficeConnect, Adaptive reporting, and other BI tools, enabling executive reporting, actionable insights, and governed self-service analytics. • Data & Integration: Partner with Data and Engineering teams to strengthen FP&A data architecture, governance, taxonomy, integrations, and data flows across Snowflake, Adaptive, ERP/HCM/CRM platforms, and reporting solutions. • Automation & AI: Identify and deliver automation, AI, advanced analytics, and workflow opportunities that reduce manual effort, improve controls, accelerate planning/reporting cycles, and enhance decision support. • Transformation Leadership: Lead strategic FP&A transformation initiatives from business case and solution design through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization. • Architecture & Governance: Establish standards for solution architecture, system access, data quality, testing, change management, documentation, controls, and production releases. • Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the senior FP&A technology partner to Finance leadership and collaborate closely with IT, Data Strategy, Engineering, Accounting, HR, and other business teams. • People Leadership: Lead, develop, and mentor the FP&A technology, BI, systems, and analytics team while building strong technical capability, succession, and operational resilience. • Adoption & Enablement: Drive user adoption, training, documentation, knowledge sharing, and data literacy to enable effective and controlled self-service across Finance. Qualifications & Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, or a relate