Manager, Strategy & Transformation (Financial Systems)

Highspring
  • Richmond, Virginia
    8 days ago

    Job Description

    The Team

    Join a team of talented professionals with deep business and finance transformation experience who guide clients through major transactions, including M&A, carve-outs, IPOs, system implementations, and organizational change. We help organizations define business strategy and execute transformation initiatives across operational accounting, financial process improvement, financial technology enablement, FP&A, liquidity and cash reporting, regulatory reporting, risk management, and transactions.

    Your Impact.

    • Support large-scale programs and multi-workstream initiatives, ensuring alignment and timely execution.
    • Partner with senior team members to execute strategic initiatives, transformation projects, leadership communications, and executive-ready recommendations.
    • Lead client workshops, current-state assessments, requirements-gathering sessions, and executive presentations, drawing on prior experience in similar client-facing environments.
    • Apply Finance & Accounting, operational, project management, product management, and problem-solving skills to solve complex challenges, with limited formal documentation, and deliver tangible outcomes.

    Your Experience

    Minimum Qualifications

    • BA/BS in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline
    • 5+ years of experience in Consulting, Finance, or Accounting
    • Knowledge of financial services, FinTech, insurance, brokerage, Fortune 500 Tech, or similarly complex enterprise environments
    • Direct involvement with complex mergers and acquisitions, integration projects, and/or system implementations
    • Strong communication, leadership communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
    • Experience working directly with Finance & Accounting teams
    • Experience working with multiple stakeholders including Lines of Business Leads, Product, and Technology
    • Ability to produce deliverables without relying on standardized templates
    • Hands on experience with assessing current state and making recommendations for future state; writing business requirements and test cases; executing test cases and escalating issues through to resolution
    • Willingness to go onsite to clients ~1-3 days per week

     Preferred Qualifications

    • Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning tools (such as SAP, Oracle, etc.)
    • Experience in client-facing work in professional services
    • Project management experience
    • Experience with operational accounting, SOX/controls, FP&A, SEC or regulatory reporting
    • Integration or M&A experience
    • Knowledge of financial services regulations and risk management
    • Advanced degrees (MBA or MSA) or certification (CPA or equivalent)

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationRichmond, Virginia
    Websitehttps://www.highspring.com/about/careers/current-openings/

    Skills

    • Accountingunmatched
    • Accounting Policiesunmatched
    • Acquisition Integrationunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Brokerageunmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • Business Transformationunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Consultingunmatched
    • Customer Escalationsunmatched
    • Customer Relationsunmatched
    • Documentationunmatched
    • ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)unmatched
    • Financial Regulationsunmatched
    • Financial Servicesunmatched
    • Financial Systemsunmatched
    • Fortune 500 Customersunmatched
    • Insuranceunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Liquidityunmatched
    • Mergers and Acquisitionsunmatched
    • Operations Managementunmatched
    • Oracleunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Product Managementunmatched
    • Professional Servicesunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Regulatory Reportsunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • Risk Managementunmatched
    • SAPunmatched
    • SEC Filingsunmatched
    • Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)unmatched
    • Strategic Planningunmatched
    • Test Caseunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched

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