Sr. Manager, Finance Transformation

**Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?** Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. **Senior Manager, Finance Transformation** **London, UK** At Sony Interactive Entertainment, we are passionately committed to redefining the future of Finance. Building on the momentum of our transformation journey, we strive to set new standards as trusted, and strategic Business partners. Through cross-functional collaboration, we drive innovation, transformation, and operational excellence on a global scale. The **Senior Manager, Finance Transformation** role focuses on hands-on program management (PMO) and organizational change management (OCM) activities for specific Finance transformation projects. The Senior Manager works under high-level guidance to translate strategic objectives into actionable project plans, drive day-to-day project progress, and coordinate cross-functional teams and resources. Additionally, this critical role will drive the design and implementation of the Finance Target Operating Model and Service Delivery Model, end‑to‑end process excellence. This role will have direct people management responsibility, providing expert leadership and detailed guidance to ensure best in class Finance transformation methodologies and future-state target operating model enablement. It offers the opportunity to shape the future of Finance in a dynamic and innovative organization committed to operational excellence and talent development. **Key Responsibilities:** Strategic Leadership & Support: - Lead the development and execution of complex, large-scale Finance transformation programs, supporting FTO leadership to translate the CFO vision into actionable roadmaps with defined milestones, measurable outcomes, and performance indicators. - Drive initiative prioritization and sequencing by supporting centralized intake and governance processes, ensuring alignment to enterprise objectives and capacity constraints. - Anticipate, identify, and proactively mitigate execution risks by implementing structured risk management processes. Operating Model & Service Delivery: - Manage and execute the future-state Finance Target Operating Model (TOM) and Service Delivery Model (SDM) as part of the transformation. - Conduct comprehensive Current-State Assessments (CSA) of Finance processes / capabilities, perform Work Activity Analysis (WAA) and Finance Maturity Assessments and leverage other diagnostic tools to inform design decisions and refine implementation approaches - Leverage standardized global end-to-end (E2E) process taxonomies to support TOM and SDM design anchored in standardization, simplification, and automation-first principles. PMO Execution & Strategic Governance: - Own day-to-day execution of assigned initiatives: develop and manage project plans (e.g. RAID logs, resource and capacity plans, performance KPIs), and monitor progress to ensure disciplined execution - Serve as a liaison between the Transformation Office and other departments (e.g. Finance functional owners, IT, HR, and external System Integrators). Ensure integration points are coordinated and proactively anticipate and escalate risks or roadblocks to FTO leadership, along with mitigation/contingency plans and recommendations - Manage the day-to-day activities of project team members (including Business analysts, IT partners, consultants, etc.),…