Programme Director – Enterprise Performance Management

Summary

Join insightsoftware as a Programme Director, acting as both a regional project director and a senior solutions architect for Planning, Budgeting & Financial Consolidation offerings. You will manage multiple customer programs, from scoping to adoption, dedicating up to 50% of your time to pre-sales activities. Partner with Sales Directors to shape deal strategy and present executive-level delivery proposals. Mentor and coach a team of Solution Architects and Consultants, ensuring delivery excellence and meeting utilization and margin targets. Lead services-scoping workshops, craft persuasive Statements of Work (SOWs), and present proposals to C-suite executives. Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities, contribute to revenue forecasting, and build relationships with implementation partners. This role requires significant experience in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) or Finance Transformation programs and strong commercial acumen.

Requirements

• Experience delivering Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) or Finance Transformation programmes, having acted in a senior engagement-lead or programme-director role
• Deep functional knowledge of Finance, FP&A, and Accounting processes; hands-on expertise with at least one leading EPM platform (e.g., Anaplan, OneStream, SAP BPC, CCH® Tagetik)
• Proven track record scoping and negotiating multi-million-dollar SOWs and exceeding services KPIs (bookings, revenue, margin, utilization)
• Demonstrated success leading geographically dispersed, multi-vendor delivery teams using agile / hybrid methodologies
• Strong commercial acumen, executive-level communication skills, and ability to translate complex issues into clear, actionable plans
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Information Systems, or related discipline; MBA or equivalent experience preferred
• Willingness to travel up to 25%

Responsibilities

• Serve as programme director on large or complex implementations, owning delivery governance, commercials, and client success
• Establish programme structure, communication cadence, and risk-management processes across customer, partner, and insightsoftware teams
• Drive steady, measurable progress toward clearly defined scope, schedule, and margin goals; intervene early to remove road-blocks
• Provide technical and functional vision, guidance, and quality assurance to Solution Architects across parallel work-streams
• Champion delivery standards, agile best practices, and continuous-improvement initiatives
• Escalate and resolve project issues promptly, protecting both customer satisfaction and commercial outcomes
• Lead services-scoping workshops during sales cycles; craft persuasive SOWs that set clear scope, staffing, timeline, and profitability expectations
• Collaborate with Account Executives to build delivery road-maps and value propositions that accelerate deal velocity
• Present proposals and solution architectures to C-suite and senior finance leadership, establishing yourself as a trusted advisor
• Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities within existing accounts and hand off qualified leads to Sales / Customer Success
• Contribute to quarterly revenue forecasting, pipeline reviews, and pricing strategy; maintain discipline around bookings, backlog, and utilization metrics
• Build and nurture relationships with strategic implementation partners to augment capacity and drive a healthy partner-to-insightsoftware revenue mix