About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
14 About the Role:
The Senior Director of Enterprise FP&A and Transformation is a senior finance leadership position responsible for shaping financial strategy, strengthening business performance, and elevating how FP&A operates across the enterprise. The role is focused on partnering with the Ratings and Energy divisions.
In parallel, the Senior Director will oversee the FP&A transformation project, leading the modernization of enterprise planning, forecasting, reporting and analytical processes through data Fabric, AI-enabled automation, advanced analytics, and next-generation planning tools, driving enterprise-wide FP&A modernization.
The Team:
Our Enterprise FP&A team operates as a strategic partner to executive leadership, with members based across New York, Philippines, and Malaysia working collaboratively on financial planning processes and strategic business insights. The team values analytical excellence, cross-functional partnership, and innovative thinking as we drive enterprise-wide modernization of financial planning processes. This dynamic environment offers direct exposure to senior leadership, Board-level communications, and transformational projects that shape the future of S&P Global's financial operations.
Responsibilities and Impact:
Strategic business partnering:
Corporate finance counterpart to Ratings and Energy teams during annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, medium-term planning, and scenario planning processes
Serve as the enterprise strategic finance partner for Ratings and Energy divisions, challenge assumptions, and prepare executive-level financial insights and performance narratives that connect financial results, operational drivers, opportunities, and strategic priorities
Partner directly with VP Enterprise FP&A and executive leadership on strategic initiatives, capital allocation decisions, and Board financial communications with enterprise-wide visibility
FP&A modernization and transformation leadership:
Oversee the FP&A transformation project to drive enterprise-wide FP&A modernization, leveraging Data Fabric, AI automation, and advanced analytics to revolutionize financial planning processes
Identify and prioritize opportunities to embed AI and automation into traditional FP&A workflows, improving speed, accuracy, scalability, and the quality of business insights.
Develop standardized tools, dashboards, models, and reporting mechanisms that provide greater transparency and operational visibility across the enterprise.
Establish transformation objectives, milestones, success measures, governance, and adoption plans, ensuring that modernization initiatives deliver measurable business value.
Foster cross-functional partnerships and lead strategic project coordination across the finance organization, ensuring alignment on enterprise priorities and initiatives
Incentive modeling and performance management
Lead incentive slope modeling and related financial analysis to assess plan performance, payout outcomes, business affordability, and alignment between compensation structures and strategic objectives.
Partner with senior leadership and Executive Compensation to evaluate incentive plan design, performance thresholds, targets, funding levels, and potential outcomes under multiple business scenarios.
Develop clear executive-level materials explaining incentive performance, sensitivities, and financial implications.
Ensure incentive models are accurate, transparent, appropriately controlled, and aligned with approved financial plans and enterprise performance measures.
Integrate incentive analysis into forecasts, performance reviews, and strategic planning to provide leadership with a comprehensive view of business and compensation outcomes.
Executive communication
Prepare clear, decision-ready financial materials for executive leadership, the CFO, and the Board of Directors
Deliver concise and compelling executive communications that…