Manager, Strategy & Transformation (Data & Integration)

Highspring

  • Richmond, Virginia
  • 19 days ago

    Highlights

    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. 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.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationRichmond, Virginia

    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, disciplined execution, and measurable business outcomes.
    • 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.
    • Assess complex customer, account, product, transactional, regulatory, and operational environments to identify risks, define future-state requirements, and support successful integration outcomes.
    • Translate ambiguous or fragmented business, data, process, and technology realities into clear recommendations, structured decision frameworks, and actionable delivery plans.
    • Facilitate alignment across business, risk, compliance, product, technology, and operations stakeholders when ownership, accountability, control expectations, or interpretation conflicts arise.
    • Design and execute structured test strategies, integration approaches, risk assessments, governance routines, and readiness plans that support transformation, regulatory expectations, and operational sustainability.
    • Identify data-related risks, quantify business and regulatory impact, and support risk-based prioritization decisions.

    Your Experience

    Minimum Qualifications

    • BA/BS in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or related discipline
    • 5+ years of experience in consulting or complex financial services, FinTech, insurance, brokerage, Fortune 500 Tech environment.
    • Strong communication, leadership communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
    • Willingness to go onsite to clients ~1-3 days per week
    • Ability to assess and map complex data environments across customer, account, product, transactional, and regulatory datasets.
    • Strong critical thinking skills to reconcile conflicting data definitions, ownership models, and legacy platform inconsistencies.
    • Where appropriate, ability to leverage automation or AI-enabled data profiling, lineage, and metadata tools to enhance transparency and efficiency.
    • Ability to assess downstream impacts of system changes on controls, reporting, and compliance obligations.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Experience in client-facing work in professional services
    • Project management experience
    • Ability to map current-state operations and design future-state workflows across multiple lines of business.
    • Knowledge of financial services regulations and risk management
    • Advanced degrees, such as MBA or MSA, or certification, such as CPA or equivalent
    • Product management experience
    • Ability to design and execute comprehensive test strategies covering system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.

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