Our client is a growing organization embracing collaboration and innovation while delivering transformative solutions. Currently seeking to add a Senior Manager within their business transformation team. Ideal candidate will be tasked with driving innovation, creativity, and impact effective change within the firm. Reporting directly to the CFO, this mission-critical leader will be key in enabling Finance’s ability to achieve its long-term ambition of becoming a trusted business partner and steward of long-term value creation for policyowners.

Responsibilities:

• Act in an internal management consulting capacity; heavily focused on current-state organizational maturity benchmarking, and Finance transformation and operational industry best practices, emerging trends, benchmarking
• Streamline financial processes to drive alignment with organizational goals, ensuring efficient and impactful resource management.
• Lead the integration and financial reporting workstream of a post-merger integration program
• This role has primary accountability for strategies and deliverables that support Future-of Finance (FoF) target operating model, and for driving operational efficiency / effectiveness across the Finance organization
• Develop and implement financial growth plan/processes and best practices for firm by fully integrating post-merger acquisitions
• Drive Finance alignment with enterprise project management standards
• Develop success KPIs, budgeting, coordinating approvals, and determine scope and timelines for successful organizational growth
• Partnering with Executive level stakeholders to understand their needs, enable their vision and build trusted relationships.
• Ensuring Finance Transformation Strategy / Roadmap alignment with other Enterprise Strategic Planning and Initiatives
• Tracking and reporting on program status in relation to Finance Transformation Roadmap value realization, embedding a strong focus on service excellence, cost reduction, and continuous improvement for all of the services delivered by the organization using benchmarks and best practice comparisons.
• Designing and delivering complex transformation and value creation programs.
• Providing day-to-day strategic direction and leadership for creating an environment and culture that fosters partnership
• Implement engagement finance dashboard allowing senior leadership to monitor program financial health, budget forecasts, and profitability across all teams within firm
• Lead strategic partnerships and advise Management Team on deal structures and negotiations
• Develop solutions to complex problems and recommend changes to policies that affect your work area and possibly the business function within your area/department

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8+ years most recent experience Banking or Management Consulting, Financial Services Experience;
• Strategy/Management Consulting experience strongly preferred
• Top Academic pedigree
• MBA highly desirable
• Strong strategic and execution skills with ability to influence, collaborate, and work across the organization
• Distinguished record of standing up and leading/overseeing the successful implementation of large scale finance transformation projects
• Corporate Development Business Transformation/Advisory
• Advanced Technical Skills; Strong quantitative and qualitative skills
• Superior written and verbal communication skills