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# VP, Sr Director, Finance Technology

- **Company:** State Auto
- **Location:** Portsmouth, NH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Data Transformation, Data Warehousing, SAP ERP, Data Strategy
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/usfc659c10b7b232c8963697c82d8838f2/eaa

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience; Master's preferred
 * Minimum 15 years of related experience, including 5+ years in senior technology leadership
 * Seasoned technology leader with a proven record leading large-scale, multi-year transformations in complex, regulated environments, with deep finance and insurance business acumen and understanding of how technology can be leveraged to support business strategy
 * Demonstrated ability to influence, challenge, and partner with executives on operating models, sequencing, investment tradeoffs, and change absorption, addressing conflict directly for better outcomes
 * Hands-on credibility across 3rd-party platform implementations (SAP experience a plus) and cloud-native, homegrown solutions (full-stack AWS, data transformation, data warehousing, and business intelligence/reporting)
 * Proven experience crafting and delivering an enterprise data strategy
 * Proven change leader who has built resilient, high-performing teams through sustained transformation, and translates vision into actionable deliverables
 * Strong vendor and ecosystem leadership, selection, governance, and value realization across major Finance platforms and delivery partners (software, consulting, and outsourcing)
 * Financial and operational acumen, including ownership of multi-year technology investment portfolios (labor, compute, software) and blended workforce strategies
 * Ability to partner closely and establish strong, trusted working relationships to make impacts beyond technology. E.g., contributing to the larger Finance transformation at Liberty
 * Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, able to go deep while staying focused on the big picture
 * Effective, highly articulate communicator able to convey important messages verbally and in writing to all organizational levels



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