Manager, Strategy & Transformation (Financial Systems)

Highspring
  • Richmond, Virginia
  • Autofill and Review
7 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

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