Director, Governance and FP&A

AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.•Jersey City, NJ

About The Position

The Director, Governance and FP&A will establish and operate a centralized governance capability for evaluating, prioritizing, tracking, and reporting on capital projects and enterprise IT capacity usage. Based within FP&A, this role serves as the central coordinator for business case intake and evaluation, portfolio tracking, and executive-level governance. The role owns the end-to-end operating rhythm, from developing and challenging business cases through quarterly leadership readouts and ongoing performance tracking, while integrating governance into annual planning and budgeting. A traditional finance background is not required, but the successful candidate must understand core financial concepts and facilitate decision-making with senior business, functional, and technology leaders.

Requirements

8–12+ years of experience in one or more of program or portfolio management; strategy, transformation, or enterprise PMO; or corporate planning, investment governance, or business operations.
Demonstrated experience working across multiple functions, such as business, finance, IT, and operations, in a complex organization.
Proven ability to work with senior-level stakeholders and influence without direct authority.
Strong working knowledge of core financial concepts, including cash versus P&L impacts, capital versus operating expenditure, NPV, ROI, payback, and value drivers.
Experience reviewing, challenging, or building business cases.
Strong organization skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholders concurrently.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize large volumes of information into clear executive-level materials.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and building structures from the ground up.
Inquisitiveness, constructive challenge, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
Sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive commercial and strategic information.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on financial modeling experience.

Responsibilities

Establish and operate a centralized governance framework for capital projects and IT capacity usage.
Define and document intake processes, evaluation criteria, approval workflows, and reporting standards.
Align FP&A, IT, and business stakeholders on governance expectations and decision rights.
Own capital- and IT-related business case submissions and partner with stakeholders to develop, refine, and challenge business cases.
Assess business case scope, benefits, costs, risks, timing, value drivers, trade-offs, and interdependencies; identify gaps and promote consistency and comparability.
Engage senior leaders to understand strategic priorities and upcoming investment needs.
Facilitate neutral, objective discussions of competing priorities and governance decisions.
Translate complex information into clear, decision-ready narratives for executive audiences.
Prepare quarterly portfolio readouts covering new submissions and recommendations, project status, capacity utilization and constraints, financial and delivery metrics, risks, and issues.
Synthesize data into insights, scenarios, and recommendations to support leadership decisions.
Track approved projects, including spend, benefits realization, timelines, and delivery status.
Collect actuals and performance metrics from project teams and stakeholders, identify variances from business case assumptions, and escalate risks or deviations as appropriate.
Improve portfolio tracking processes as the portfolio scales.
Integrate capital and IT investment governance into annual planning and budgeting.
Ensure approved projects, future pipeline, and capacity constraints are reflected accurately in financial plans.
Coordinate with FP&A colleagues to align governance outputs with forecasts, outlooks, and long-range plans.