Business Solution Owner Finance & Treasury Lead

TRATON Financial Services (TFS) - Finance & Treasury Lead

This position is within one of TRATON’s companies.

Role Summary

This is a senior business technology leadership role with the opportunity to shape the Finance domain and its ways of working across TRATON Financial Services. You will act as the overall contact for Finance Operations, Financial Reporting and Treasury, providing a clear front door between Finance and IT. Working globally and cross-functionally, you will partner with functional sponsors, process owners, market representatives, technical product leadership, delivery teams and service providers.

In this position, you will report to the Head of Business Solutions and lead the coordinated Business Solution Owner agenda for the Finance domain. The role is accountable for creating an integrated view of business needs, priorities, roadmaps and value across the domain, while enabling supporting BSOs and cross-functional teams to operate with clarity and autonomy.

Domain scope

Finance Operations

Financial Reporting

Treasury

• Purchase order to payment
• Invoice to collection
• Delinquency handling
• In-life contract changes
• Cash management operations
• Record-to-report and close
• Consolidation and group reporting
• Management and statutory reporting
• Planning and forecasting interfaces
• Controls, reconciliation and finance data quality
• Liquidity and cash visibility
• Payments / banking interfaces
• Funding and treasury operations
• Treasury reporting and controls
• Market and currency-related requirements
• ABS capabilities

Key stakeholders

• Finance functional sponsor and Finance leadership
• Finance Operations, Financial Reporting and Treasury process owners and subject matter experts
• Brand, regional and market Finance representatives
• Technical Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture, Data & Analytics and delivery teams
• Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Information Security and Data Protection
• Strategic vendors, implementation partners and service providers
• Adjacent domain BSOs and product teams

Job Responsibilities

Lead the Finance domain and business partnership

• Act as the trusted business technology partner and primary point of contact for the Finance functional sponsor and leadership team across Finance Operations, Financial Reporting and Treasury.
• Build a deep understanding of Finance strategy, business outcomes, processes, pain points, regulatory obligations and future capability needs.
• Shape and lead the Finance domain community together with supporting BSOs, heads of function, process owners and market stakeholders.
• Provide an end-to-end view across the domain, connecting operational processes, reporting, treasury, data, applications, service operations and change initiatives.

Own the domain roadmap, demand and prioritisation

• Own and maintain the integrated Finance capability roadmap and demand pipeline, ensuring transparency of priorities, dependencies, investment and expected value.
• Translate business needs and opportunities into clear outcomes, requirements and prioritised initiatives for technical product and delivery teams.
• Balance strategic transformation, regulatory and control requirements, operational improvements, technical debt and local market needs.
• Manage the domain backlog and facilitate prioritisation with functional sponsors and governance forums based on business value, risk, cost, feasibility and strategic alignment.
• Identify capability gaps, duplication and opportunities for process harmonisation, automation and adoption of common solutions across brands and markets.

Drive solution ownership, delivery and change

• Lead cross-functional collaboration to shape scalable and sustainable solutions that support the Finance strategy.
• Partner with Technical Product Owners, architecture, data and delivery teams to maintain alignment between business outcomes, solution direction and execution.
• Set the business scope and intended outcomes for initiatives, support delivery planning and actively manage dependencies and business decisions.
• Coordinate business readiness, user acceptance, process change, training, rollout and adoption across functions and markets.
• Track value realisation after implementation and drive continuous improvement based on business performance, user feedback and operational insight.

Lead governance, investment and stakeholder alignment

• Establish clear engagement cadences, decision rights and escalation paths for the Finance domain.
• Provide transparent reporting on roadmap progress, delivery risks, IT spend, benefits and value delivered.
• Support business cases, investment proposals and benefit tracking for Finance initiatives.
• Balance global standards and reusable capabilities with justified local, statutory, regulatory and market-specific requirements.
• Ensure relevant control, audit, security, data protection, resilience and compliance considerations are incorporated into demand and change decisions.

Enable stable, cross-functional domain teams

• Create clarity of purpose, priorities and outcomes for the people and teams aligned to the Finance domain.
• Coordinate and coach supporting BSOs or capability owners across Finance Operations, Financial Reporting and Treasury.
• Enable cross-functional teams to self-organise around agreed priorities while maintaining alignment to domain strategy, architecture and governance.
• Build strong collaboration between business subject matter experts, technology specialists, data teams, delivery resources and service providers.
• Promote knowledge sharing, common ways of working and sustained ownership beyond ind