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Our client, an investment management company, is seeking a Head of Finance
Location : New York, NY
Position Type : IT Full Time
Key Responsibilities :
Partner with key project stakeholders to define project scope and primary objectives based on business outcome expectations
Operationally responsible for delivering a clear understanding and documentation of business requirements
Serve as the technology lead for system implementation, integration, enhancements and ongoing monitoring
Serve as Client liaison with technology vendors employed by business stakeholders, seeking to foster a strong partnership relationship between all parties
Act as data steward, synthesizing data and connecting dots to provide context and insight and exploring opportunities to enhance data sourcing and data governance
Influence business stakeholders to drive rapid consensus
Drive standardization, a control framework and constantly evaluate systems, processes and procedures for efficiency opportunities, making recommendations for improvements
Ownership in designing, building and, where relevant, handing over projects
Leverage data science capabilities to turn raw data into information and insight to support business decisions and improve system processes
Manage vendor resources and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a timely and seamless project delivery
Create and manage project plans for every initiative and communicate timelines to all stakeholders at every level
Ownership of global delivery roadmap, including project milestones, BAU, and support.
Strategic business analysis of projects ensuring alignment with overall business and tech strategies.
Actively manage trade-offs between strategic and tactical implementation.
Serve as a thought leader for developing system prototypes and processes to minimize time-to-market for new system features
Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements and maintain integrity of data and system processes
Manage the oversight of status reporting and escalation of systems issues and delays and communicate to stakeholders
Work with technical manager on architecture and infrastructure strategy and roadmap
Act as the first line of support for system issues and work with vendor / internal technical resources to triage and fix bugs and system outages.
Build and troubleshoot reporting with proprietary vendor applications
Requirements :
10 years of experience in a business analyst or project management role with a Private Equity firm or other Financial Services organization.
Superior problem-solving skills with a process-oriented mindset and the ability to deliver well-structured analyses and clearly present findings
Strong business and data analysis skills; working knowledge of debt operations a strong plus
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to talk to the business, synthesizing complex ideas into clear messages and translating needs into IT requirements
Superior organizational skills; ability to multi-task and flex with changing priorities
Project management experience covering project inception through execution, implementation and closeout preferred
Experience delivering high-performance and highly technical mission critical digital technology platforms in a business analysis and project management capacity.
In-depth experience in Agile development practices and system integration through API, web services, or ETL with both proprietary and vendor systems.
Experience financial services or consulting services organization
Experience of working in a regulated environment and the associated processes and tools
Ability to prioritize, take full ownership and responsibility of various tasks without losing attention to detail.
Experience with the following tools and skills (not required)
Data Platforms Snowflake, Databricks, IVP
Workflow / Task Management tools Asana, Appian, Airflow
Reporting Tools Power BI or Tableau
Data tools SQL, Azure Data Factory
General applications : ERP systems, GL systems
Salary Range : $200,000 – $215,000
9 hours ago
