Senior Lead, Finance Platform Engineering

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Description

The Senior Lead, Finance Platform Engineering provides engineering leadership and is accountable for the successful realization, governance, and continuous improvement of the enterprise Finance platform portfolio. This role provides day-to-day leadership for the Finance Platform Engineering organization while executing approved platform strategy through engineering realization, modernization planning, platform optimization, business engagement, and long-term platform health.

Reporting to the Executive Director, ERP & Value Chain Platform Engineering, the Senior Lead partners closely with Finance Product and Technology leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), Operations & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, and strategic technology partners to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable Finance capabilities that support global business operations.

This role provides engineering leadership across SAP ECC and related Finance platforms while overseeing engineering realization of approved business requirements and solution designs through Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic partners, and cross-functional engineering teams. The Senior Lead ensures engineering quality, delivery excellence, platform stability, production readiness, and continuous improvement while supporting modernization initiatives, platform optimization, and long-term lifecycle management.

The Senior Lead also provides engineering leadership across Finance platforms by proactively managing engineering risks, technical dependencies, delivery readiness, and platform health while ensuring engineering execution aligns with approved solution designs, enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and enterprise engineering practices.

The ideal candidate combines strong engineering leadership, deep SAP Finance expertise, and enterprise platform experience with the ability to balance technical leadership, organizational development, engineering partnership, and engineering excellence across a complex global Finance landscape.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

Engineering Realization, Delivery Leadership & Platform Stewardship (40%)

• Provide day-to-day leadership for the Finance Platform Engineering organization, including direct leadership of Finance Platform Engineering Managers, while executing approved platform strategy through engineering realization, modernization delivery, platform optimization, lifecycle execution, and long-term platform health.

• Lead engineering realization across Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic technology partners, and cross-functional engineering teams, ensuring successful delivery of approved business requirements and solution designs through high-quality engineering execution and production readiness.

• Provide engineering leadership across core Finance capabilities including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Fixed Assets (AA), Controlling (CO), Treasury, Financial Close, and Finance integrations.

• Partner with the Executive Director, Finance Product and Technology leaders, and Enterprise Architecture to execute approved engineering roadmaps, modernization initiatives, and long-term platform lifecycle plans.

• Ensure engineering deliverables align with approved solution designs, enterprise architecture standards, engineering principles, security requirements, and established development methodologies.

• Provide engineering leadership for major Finance platform initiatives, ensuring delivery excellence, operational readiness, knowledge transfer, and successful transition into ongoing support.

Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)

Engineering Governance, Quality & Platform Optimization (35%)

• Establish engineering governance, technical quality standards, release readiness, platform lifecycle management, and delivery controls supporting enterprise Finance platforms.

• Ensure engineering quality, production readiness, platform optimization, lifecycle execution, engineering governance, and long-term platform sustainability across Finance solutions.

• Lead engineering capacity planning, resource forecasting, and delivery planning to support approved business demand while maintaining engineering quality, platform stability, and delivery commitments.

• Consolidate engineering risks, technical dependencies, delivery status, and platform readiness across Finance initiatives while proactively escalating issues that impact approved solution designs, enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, platform stability, or delivery commitments.

• Drive continuous improvement through platform optimization, engineering automation, environment strategy, technical debt remediation planning, modernization delivery, and operational efficiency initiatives.

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Operations & Infrastructure, and Finance Technology teams to ensure engineering solutions align with enterprise standards, operational requirements, and long-term platform sustainability.

Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)

Finance Business Partnership & Engineering Realization (15%)

• Partner with Finance Product and Technology leaders to translate approved business requirements, solution designs, and product roadmaps into engineering realization plans supporting enterprise Finance capabilities and strategic initiatives.

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), business stakeholders, and strategic technology partners to successfully deliver Finance platform modernization and transformation initiatives.

• Provide engineering leadership during planning, estimation, engineering reviews, testing, deployment, production readiness, and production acceptance activities.

• Support Finance platform modernization initiatives including SAP ECC optimization, SAP S/4HANA transformation activities, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption, OneStream integration, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities where appropriate.

• Escalate material engineering implementation risks or deviations that impact approved solution designs, enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, or platform stability through established governance processes.

Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)

Engineering Excellence & Organizational Capability (10%)

• Provide engineering and organizational leadership through technical expertise, mentoring, engineering accountability, collaboration, and organizational influence while leading Finance Platform Engineering Managers and developing future engineering leaders.

• Lead Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic technology partners, and the Enterprise Platform Engineering organization through clear engineering governance, technical leadership, delivery accountability, and organizational alignment.

• Champion modern engineering practices, AI-enabled engineering capabilities, automation, reusable engineering assets, and continuous improvement to improve engineering productivity, platform quality, and organizational capability.

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence while strengthening organizational capability across the Finance Platform Engineering organization.

• Promote engineering documentation, knowledge transfer, technical standards, and operational readiness to ensure long-term platform sustainability and successful production support.

Qualifications

Finance Platform Leadership & Enterprise ERP Expertise

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• 7+ years of progressive leadership experience governing enterprise Finance platforms, ERP applications, or Finance technology organizations within complex global enterprises.

• Demonstrated leadership experience governing large-scale SAP ERP Finance environments supporting Record-to-Report (R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), Fixed Assets (AA), Controlling (CO), Treasury, and Financial Reporting capabilities.

• Deep understanding of SAP ECC and the broader SAP application ecosystem supporting enterprise Finance business capabilities. Experience with enterprise financial consolidation and performance management platforms (e.g., OneStream), enterprise planning solutions, and modern Finance transformation initiatives is highly desirable.

• Proven ability to develop engineering roadmaps, lifecycle plans, and modernization strategies supporting approved platform strategy while balancing technical sustainability, engineering capacity, and operational excellence.

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering realization of approved business requirements and solution designs across Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic technology partners, and global engineering organizations while maintaining accountability for engineering quality and platform outcomes.

• Experience supporting global Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Manufacturing, Retail, or similarly complex multinational organizations with large-scale Finance transformation initiatives is strongly preferred.

Qualifications (Continued)

Finance Platform Delivery, Governance & Optimization

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering realization and day-to-day delivery across enterprise Finance platform portfolios while ensuring engineering quality, production readiness, delivery predictability, platform health, and operational stability.

• Proven ability to establish engineering governance, platform standards, modernization delivery, release governance, environment strategies, and lifecycle management practices supporting enterprise Finance platforms.

• Experience driving Finance platform optimization through landscape simplification, environment utilization, technical modernization, engineering operating efficiency, software licensing optimization, data lifecycle management, and long-term platform sustainability.

• Strong understanding of enterprise Finance transformation, SAP ERP modernization strategies, Agile delivery methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), DevSecOps, testing strategies, release management, and modern engineering practices.

• Ability to balance engineering quality, modernization delivery, platform stability, technology risk, production readiness, and long-term business value across enterprise Finance platforms.

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering capacity planning, delivery forecasting, engineering risk management, and cross-functional delivery coordination across multiple Finance initiatives.

Qualifications (Continued)

Enterprise Partnership & Finance Engineering Leadership

• Proven ability to build trusted partnerships across Finance Product and Technology leadership, Enterprise Product Design Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Operations & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), Finance business stakeholders, and strategic technology partners.

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, organizational influence, and collaboration skills with the ability to translate approved business requirements, solution designs, and product roadmaps into engineering realization plans supporting enterprise Finance capabilities.

• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise Finance modernization initiatives by collaborating across multiple business functions, engineering disciplines, and global delivery organizations.

• Proven ability to provide engineering leadership across Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic partners, and cross-functional engineering teams while maintaining accountability for engineering quality, production readiness, and platform health.

Qualifications (Continued)

Finance Platform Modernization, Technology Stewardship & Continuous Improvement

• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale SAP Finance modernization initiatives, enterprise Finance platform transformations, cloud adoption strategies, and Finance capability modernization programs.

• Strong understanding of SAP ECC, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), enterprise financial planning, consolidation, and reporting platforms (e.g., OneStream), and modern Finance technologies supporting complex global organizations.

• Experience providing technical leadership and recommendations regarding platform technology usage, engineering tooling, software licensing, engineering capacity, vendor delivery performance, and long-term platform sustainability.

• Proven ability to leverage AI-enabled engineering capabilities, automation, reusable engineering assets, and modern engineering practices to improve engineering productivity, platform quality, operational efficiency, and technology maturity.

• Commitment to continuous platform optimization, engineering excellence, innovation, and long-term platform sustainability.

Qualifications (Continued)

Engineering Leadership & Organizational Development

• Demonstrated success leading and developing Finance Platform Engineering Managers and engineering teams across complex enterprise technology organizations.

• Proven ability to build organizational capability through leadership development, mentoring, succession planning, technical coaching, engineering documentation, production support readiness, and engineering career progression.

• Ability to lead through strategic engineering vision, platform stewardship, engineering accountability, collaboration, organizational influence, and technical leadership while maintaining strong partnerships with Finance Product and Technology leadership.

• Demonstrated commitment to strengthening Enterprise Platform Engineering through engineering excellence, Finance platform modernization, AI-enabled engineering, organizational capability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Pay Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $119,300.00  to $196,600.00. Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program as well as participation in the share incentive plan. In addition,

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

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