Sr Director Finance Special Projects

Powering the world’s payments ecosystem

ACI powers the payments ecosystem – globally, and you power ACI.  You’ll innovate, collaborate, and grow – in an energetic technology culture with decades of proven success.  ACIers – in all roles and levels – are truly your colleagues and many are your friends. Our size and reach allow you to see the global impact of your work. You are visible, your talents are valued, and you are empowered to shape the future of payments.

As a Senior Director of Finance Special Projects in Omaha (hybrid), you will join a diverse, passionate team, dedicated to powering the world’s payments ecosystem!

Job purpose:

The Senior Director of Finance Special Projects is a senior leadership role with direct accountability for accelerating the delivery of high impact business metrics, insights, and business cases across ACI. The role leads complex, enterprise-wide financial initiatives, including business unit analysis in support of Corporate Development, development of free cash flow and capital allocation analytics, and financial support for Investor Relations and Velocity, ACI’s GenAI initiative for Strategic Finance. 

A typical day at ACI for a Senior Director of Finance Special Projects is:

• Define and articulate the key drivers of ACI’s long-term shareholder value and stock price performance. This includes ownership of enterprise level value creation analytics, peer benchmarking, and long-term financial modeling across scenarios such as organic growth, M&A, divestitures, and capital return strategies. 
• Serve as the finance lead for Board-level analytical support, preparing deep dive materials on strategy, capital allocation, and transformation topics at the request of the CFO and SVP Strategic Finance. 
• Act as a central coordinator for cross functional, timebound strategic initiatives that span business segments and functions and require independent financial judgment. 
• Partners closely with Corporate and Business Unit Finance leaders to provide strategic updates to ACI’s multiyear financial plan, ensure alignment with monthly forecasts, and deliver ad hoc analyses and financial insights to the CFO and executive leadership team. These insights support strategic decision making, identify risks, and surface opportunities to drive growth and profitability.
• Supports the financial integration and value realization of acquisitions, divestitures, and corporate investments to enhance long-term shareholder value. 

Knowledge, Skills and Experience needed to succeed in this role: 

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years related experience. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex business models and to translate model inputs to understandable and actionable financial model outputs.

• Strong P&L discipline with the ability to effectively manage the company’s global financial planning to maximize revenues and profits

• Proven presentation skills to an executive and/or board-level audience. 

Core Capabilities:

We seek colleagues who embody our core capabilities — these shape our culture and enable us to make a meaningful impact together:

• Ensure Accountability: holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

• Drives Results: consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

• Customer Focus: building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

• Cultivate Innovation: creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.

• Collaborates: building partnerships and working collaboratively with others.

• Courage: stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position