At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead AI initiatives to transform Finance operations and decision-making.
- Company: Join AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with a focus on collaboration and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by leveraging AI to improve financial outcomes.
- Qualifications: Experience in AI, finance, and digital transformation is essential.
The predicted salary is between 134190 - 164010 $ per year.
AtkinsRéalis is looking for a Director, Artificial Intelligence, Finance to turn the potential of AI into measurable improvements in how Finance works and how the business makes decisions. This is a hands‑on leadership role. The Director will define a practical AI strategy, identify the opportunities worth pursuing and lead a disciplined portfolio from business case through adoption and verified results. They will also personally design, build, test and help deploy practical Finance agents and AI‑enabled workflows within approved enterprise environments. Success means tangible outcomes: capacity released for higher‑value work, faster and better‑informed decisions, stronger controls, improved cash performance and protection of project margins.
The role is not about deploying technology for its own sake or accumulating pilots that never change how Finance operates. Leading a small team with a global mandate, the Director will bring together Finance leaders and process owners with the Financial Systems Centre of Excellence (CoE), IT, Global Digital, the Chief Digital Officer’s organization, and data, cybersecurity, privacy and risk specialists. They will develop Finance‑specific strategy and governance within enterprise standards, not create competing platforms or policies.
You are a business‑led AI and transformation leader who combines strategic ambition, financial discipline and genuine hands‑on ability. You can inspire executives, challenge a weak business case and align Finance, Digital, IT and control teams. You are as comfortable discussing strategy as you are building an agent to test an idea with users.
Your role
- Set the strategy and build alignment: Define and communicate a value‑first AI strategy and roadmap for Global Finance, aligned with Finance priorities, enterprise AI strategy, technology standards and the Financial Systems roadmap. Determine where AI can materially improve outcomes, where conventional automation or process redesign is preferable, and where an opportunity should not proceed. Build a shared agenda across FP&A, Controllership, Project Finance and other Finance teams; engage regional and business leaders to identify needs that can scale.
- Own a disciplined portfolio of use cases: Establish transparent intake and prioritization connected to enterprise channels and governance; assess business value, process and data readiness, feasibility, adoption, total cost and risk. Maintain a sequenced portfolio with named sponsors, accountable process owners, delivery partners, milestones and clear decisions to proceed, change direction or stop. Prioritize a few opportunities with a credible path to impact over a large collection of pilots.
- Make the business case and prove the return: Require proportionate business cases before material investment, with baselines, expected benefits, implementation and ongoing costs, risks, dependencies, adoption assumptions and alternatives. Distinguish time saved from capacity genuinely redeployed and from cost removed; do not treat these as interchangeable financial benefits.
- Build, test and demonstrate solutions personally: Personally design, build and refine selected Finance agents and AI‑enabled workflows, especially early prototypes and focused solutions that accelerate learning. Use Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Studio hands‑on to configure agents, test them with users, assess reliability and improve outputs based on feedback.
- Establish practical, responsible governance: Translate enterprise AI policy and standards into a Finance operating model covering ownership, intake, risk assessment, testing, approvals, human oversight, monitoring and lifecycle management.
- Deliver through partnership and adoption: Partner with the Financial Systems CoE so initiatives fit ERP, EPM and reporting architecture without creating competing technology roadmaps.
- Lead a lean, high‑impact team: Build and coach a small team with commercial judgment, hands‑on capability and delivery discipline; mobilize a federated network of Finance champions, process owners and enterprise specialists.
About you
A degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience, is expected. Significant experience leading AI, data, automation or digital transformation in a complex organization, with demonstrated outcomes beyond proofs of concept. Experience navigating architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, data governance and risk requirements without losing sight of business value or delivery pace.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada. Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.
About AtkinsRéalis
We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems.
Director, Artificial Intelligence, Finance in Montréal employer: AtkinsRéalis Group Inc.
AtkinsRéalis is an exceptional employer that prioritizes employee growth and well-being, offering competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package tailored to individual needs. With a strong commitment to professional development and a hybrid working culture, employees can thrive in a supportive environment while contributing to meaningful projects in the nuclear energy sector. Located in Canada, this role provides unique opportunities to collaborate with a diverse team and engage in impactful initiatives that shape the future of infrastructure and energy systems.
