Senior Director - Finance Strategy & Operations

Hines is a privately owned global real estate investment manager, owner, and developer operating across major markets worldwide. We bring together investment management, development, operations, and enterprise capabilities to create long-term value for our investors, clients, partners, employees, and ownership.

Our culture is grounded in integrity, excellence, collaboration, accountability, and a long-term perspective.

The ongoing transformation of Finance is central to the strategic evolution of Hines. The enterprise requires a comprehensive modernization of its operating model, processes, data, technology, and execution capabilities to deliver measurable change while maintaining control, continuity, and decision support across the core Finance function.

The Senior Director, Finance Strategy & Operations will lead this critical agenda, partnering with Finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align investment decisions, operational priorities, and execution capacity. The role will drive standardization and optimization of Finance delivery, accelerate technology enablement, and build lasting capability across the organization. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Define the agenda

• Partner with Finance leadership to define the target operating model, business case, and multi-year roadmap.

• Align priorities across Accounting, Finance Operations, Capital Markets, Tax, Technology, and the business.

Modernize Finance delivery

• Standardize end-to-end processes, clarify global process ownership, and optimize shared services and centers of excellence.

• Accelerate ERP alignment, automation, data and AI capabilities that simplify work and improve insight.

Govern execution, value, and risk

• Establish governance, manage dependencies, resource constraints and risks, and track delivery, adoption, and benefits against KPIs.

Build lasting capability

• Build adaptability, change leadership, process ownership, and digital fluency across Finance; use project and interim expertise where needed to accelerate delivery without disrupting day-to-day priorities.

Minimum Requirements Include:

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.

• 12+ years in Finance transformation.

• Enterprise operating-model and process redesign experience.

• ERP and data modernization experience.

• Shared services experience.

• Demonstrated rigorous value realization and benefits tracking.

• Proven executive stakeholder influence and partnership capability.

• Large-scale change leadership and transformation execution capacity.

• Strong Finance and controls foundation with deep understanding of Finance operations.

• Excellent communication, judgment, and influencing skills with ability to operate at executive level.

• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on operational execution.

• Compensation: Chicago - $162,000 - $218,000; Houston - to be determined based on experience.

Leadership Attributes

• Strategic and commercially minded.

• Converts transformation ambition into executable capacity and measurable outcomes.

• Collaborative and globally oriented.

• Decisive and accountable.

• Strong people leader and talent developer.

• Operationally disciplined and grounded in integrity.

• Comfortable leading through complex, large-scale change.

At Hines, we believe the built world is ultimately about people. As one of the world’s largest privately held real assets firms, we bring nearly seven decades of investment, development, and management experience to work that shapes cities and communities around the world.

Our people make that possible. Across 29 countries, more than 4,600 colleagues bring different perspectives and expertise to Hines, with opportunities to take on meaningful responsibility, learn from leaders across the business, and build a career with room to evolve. We support that journey through professional development, competitive rewards, comprehensive benefits, and a culture grounded in trust and high standards.

Hines is proud to be named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2024.

We are an equal opportunity employer and support workforce diversity.

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