Remote | Strategic Project Lead, Finance Expertise — $400,000–$550,000/year

24-Mag
  • New York, New York
  • Remote
    6 days ago

    Job Description

    We are sharing a full-time opportunity for an experienced strategic project leader with strong Finance expertise, project ownership, data operations, stakeholder management, and human-data workflow experience to lead complex projects supporting advanced AI organisations and data-intensive initiatives.

    The role combines finance-domain expertise with end-to-end project execution. The successful candidate will translate ambiguous customer requirements into clear specifications, design and improve finance-focused workflows, coordinate Operations and Finance subject-matter experts, manage delivery milestones, and maintain direct communication with senior stakeholders.

    Key Responsibilities

    Project & Finance Workflow Leadership

    • Own complex projects from scoping through execution and final delivery
    • Translate customer requirements into structured project plans and finance-focused workflow specifications
    • Define milestones, dependencies, deliverables, quality standards, and success criteria
    • Design workflows supporting financial analysis, modelling, investment, accounting, or related data-intensive tasks
    • Resolve blockers quickly and maintain delivery momentum

    Data Operations & Quality

    • Design and refine finance-focused data pipelines and human-data workflows
    • Coordinate expert-driven review, annotation, and evaluation processes
    • Improve workflow efficiency, scalability, and operational reliability
    • Establish data-quality and review procedures
    • Identify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements

    Stakeholder & Team Management

    • Work closely with Finance experts, Operations teams, project leads, and customers
    • Own communication across scope, quality, timing, progress, and risk
    • Align contributors around clear responsibilities and execution expectations
    • Provide concise updates, feedback, and next steps
    • Support rapid mobilisation of expert teams for new project requirements

    AI & Human-Data Project Delivery

    • Support projects involving AI training, evaluation, and human-generated data
    • Translate customer objectives into scalable operational systems
    • Apply Finance-domain judgement to project specifications and evaluation criteria
    • Maintain strong execution across financial, operational, and technical workstreams
    • Improve workflows supporting complex AI and data initiatives

    Ideal Profile

    • Strong professional background in Finance, Financial Engineering, Economics, Accounting, or a related discipline
    • 2+ years of experience leading complex projects, operational workflows, or finance-related initiatives
    • Demonstrated ability to manage projects from ambiguity through delivery
    • Strong project-management, execution, and stakeholder-management skills
    • Experience coordinating cross-functional or expert teams
    • Excellent written and verbal communication
    • Ability to work effectively with senior Finance professionals
    • Strong attention to detail, ownership, urgency, and operational discipline
    • Experience with financial modelling, investment analysis, financial markets, accounting, or related workflows is advantageous
    • Experience with technical or data-intensive projects is valuable
    • Familiarity with data pipelines, AI/ML organisations, data annotation, evaluation workflows, or human-in-the-loop systems is beneficial

    Engagement Details

    • Full-time engagement
    • Fully remote
    • Compensation: $400,000–$550,000/year
    • Work will involve strategic project leadership, Finance workflows, stakeholder management, data operations, human-data pipelines, project delivery, and cross-functional coordination
    • Responsibilities may span financial modelling, investment analysis, financial markets, accounting, data workflows, AI-training operations, and related project environments
    • Regular communication with customers, Finance domain experts, Operations teams, and project leads is expected
    • Project scope, priorities, customer requirements, and workflows may evolve based on business needs
    • Work must be completed without using confidential, proprietary, regulated, client-identifiable, or otherwise restricted information belonging to any employer, financial institution, investment organisation, client, data provider, or other third party

    About the Platform

    This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNew York, New York (
    Remote
    )
    Website4-mag.com/privacy-policy

    Skills

    • Accountingunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Managementunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Delivery Managementunmatched
    • Detail Orientedunmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Analysisunmatched
    • Financial Modelingunmatched
    • Financial Operationsunmatched
    • Investment Accountingunmatched
    • Investment Analysisunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Operations Managementunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Project Evaluationunmatched
    • Project Executionunmatched
    • Project Planningunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Quality Metricsunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • Stock Marketunmatched
    • Systems Scalabilityunmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
    • Technical Consultingunmatched
    • Training Data Setsunmatched
    • Workflow Analysisunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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