Senior Manager, Operating Model Transformation (Insurance & Banking)

Highspring
  • Chicago, Illinois
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    The Team – Strategy, Technology & Transformation 

    Join a high-impact team partnering with senior leaders across insurance and banking organizations to improve enterprise performance, transparency, and decision-making. The team supports complex transformations spanning financial planning, profitability analytics, operating model redesign, and data-enabled performance management, often in the context of growth, integration, or large-scale change initiatives.  

    Your Impact 

    This role is designed for a seasoned finance transformation leader who understands how financial performance is created, measured, and managed within complex financial services organizations. You will work closely with executive stakeholders to translate strategy into actionable financial and operating models, ensuring insight, accountability, and sustainable value creation. 

    Key responsibilities include: 

    Financial Planning, Performance & Profitability 

    • Lead FP&A and corporate planning initiatives, including stress testing and capital planning, long-range planning, annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and scenario modeling tailored to insurance and/or banking businesses 
    • Develop and oversee product, customer, and business-line profitability analysis, including margin drivers, pricing impacts, and capital considerations 
    • Drive transparency into corporate overhead and shared services costs, ensuring expenses are appropriately allocated to the right products, functions, and business lines 
    • Support executive decision-making through clear, insight-driven financial narratives and dashboards 

    Data, Integration & Performance Enablement 

    • Partner with finance, technology, and data teams to improve data mapping, integrations, and financial data flows across source systems 
    • Translate business and finance requirements into scalable performance management and business solutions 
    • Ensure consistency of definitions, metrics, and hierarchies across planning, reporting, and analytics 
    • Support post-merger or transformation environments where financial integration and performance alignment are critical 

    Target Operating Model (TOM) Leadership 

    • Lead or support Target Operating Model design and implementation for finance and performance management functions 
    • Assess current-state capabilities across people, process, technology, governance, and data 
    • Define future-state operating models aligned to strategy, scale, and regulatory expectations 
    • Drive execution through detailed roadmaps, change management, and stakeholder engagement 

    Leadership & Client / Stakeholder Engagement 

    • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives and finance leadership, including CFO organizations 
    • Facilitate executive and working sessions, translating complex topics into clear, actionable outcomes 
    • Lead and mentor project teams, providing coaching, quality oversight, and performance feedback 
    • Contribute to business development through solution design, proposal development, and thought leadership 

     Your Experience 

    Minimum Qualifications 

    • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline 
    • 10+ years of progressive experience in finance, FP&A, corporate planning, or finance transformation with at least 2 years of client-facing experience in a professional services organization 
    • Deep industry experience in Insurance and/or Banking, with a strong understanding of industry economics, products, and regulatory environments 
    • Demonstrated expertise in:  
    • FP&A and enterprise planning 
    • Product and business-line profitability 
    • Expense management and cost allocation 
    • Performance management frameworks and KPIs 
    • Hands-on experience supporting or leading Target Operating Model transformations 
    • Strong ability to bridge business, finance, and data/technology teams 

    Preferred Qualifications 

    • MBA or advanced degree in a relevant field 
    • Experience in professional services or internal transformation roles within large financial institutions 
    • Familiarity with FP&A, EPM, or performance management platforms 
    • Proven track record leading complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives 
    • Strong executive presence with excellent communication and storytelling skills 

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationChicago, Illinois
    Websitehttps://www.highspring.com/about/careers/current-openings/

    Skills

    • Accountingunmatched
    • Banking Servicesunmatched
    • Budget Managementunmatched
    • Business Administrationunmatched
    • Business Bankingunmatched
    • Business Developmentunmatched
    • Business Performance Managementunmatched
    • Business Skillsunmatched
    • Business Solutionsunmatched
    • Change Managementunmatched
    • Coachingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Corporate Planningunmatched
    • Cost Allocationunmatched
    • Customer Relationsunmatched
    • Data Mappingunmatched
    • Data Modelingunmatched
    • Decision Supportunmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Expense Allocationunmatched
    • Expense Managementunmatched
    • Expense Trackingunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Managementunmatched
    • Financial Modelingunmatched
    • Financial Planningunmatched
    • Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)unmatched
    • Financial Servicesunmatched
    • Forecastingunmatched
    • Head of Financeunmatched
    • Insuranceunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Metricsunmatched
    • Performance Analysisunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
    • Performance Metricsunmatched
    • Pricingunmatched
    • Professional Servicesunmatched
    • Profit & Lossunmatched
    • Profit & Loss Analysisunmatched
    • Proposal Developmentunmatched
    • Regulationsunmatched
    • Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
    • Storytellingunmatched
    • Stress Testingunmatched
    • Thought Leadershipunmatched

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