Remote | Finance Operations & Planning Manager — $60–$100/hour

24-Mag • New York, NY

1d • $60 - $100 • Remote

About The Position

We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced finance professionals with strong expertise in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, cash-flow oversight, and financial operations. This role focuses on reviewing financial management content and workflows across realistic business scenarios. Selected professionals will assess financial plans, budgets, forecasts, reports, and management decisions for analytical accuracy, financial soundness, regulatory awareness, and overall professional quality.

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience in financial management, corporate finance, financial planning, financial reporting, or a closely related role
• Experience as a Finance Manager, Finance Director, Financial Planning Manager, Financial Reporting Manager, Branch Manager , or similar finance professional
• Demonstrated experience overseeing financial activities at the branch, office, department, or business-unit level
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, financial reporting, and financial analysis
• Experience overseeing accounting, banking, credit, insurance, securities, or financial-planning activities is highly relevant
• Strong understanding of financial controls, commercial decision-making, and regulatory considerations
• Ability to evaluate financial recommendations from both analytical and operational perspectives
• Strong written English communication skills
• Ability to work independently and provide precise professional feedback

Responsibilities

• Evaluate financial plans and management recommendations for accuracy and commercial soundness
• Assess whether financial decisions appropriately reflect organisational objectives and constraints
• Review assumptions underlying forecasts, budgets, and financial strategies
• Identify inconsistencies, unsupported conclusions, and material financial risks
• Apply practical judgement grounded in real-world financial management experience
• Review operating budgets, forecasts, and financial projections
• Assess revenue, expense, cash-flow, and resource assumptions
• Evaluate variance explanations and proposed corrective actions
• Identify unrealistic projections or inconsistencies between underlying data and reported results
• Review whether forecasts appropriately reflect business conditions and financial constraints
• Evaluate scenarios involving cash-flow management and liquidity oversight
• Review working-capital considerations and financial resource allocation
• Assess financial implications of operational and commercial decisions
• Identify potential financial-control or execution issues
• Evaluate recommendations for maintaining financial stability and efficiency
• Review management reports, financial analyses, and performance summaries
• Assess whether calculations, metrics, and conclusions are accurate and internally consistent
• Evaluate the quality of financial interpretation and management commentary
• Identify reporting gaps, analytical weaknesses, and unsupported conclusions
• Review whether financial information is presented clearly for decision-makers
• Evaluate pricing decisions and their financial implications
• Review assumptions involving cost, margin, profitability, and commercial trade-offs
• Assess whether recommendations are financially sustainable
• Identify weaknesses in pricing logic or supporting analysis
• Evaluate alternative approaches from both financial and operational perspectives
• Review scenarios involving accounting, banking, credit, insurance, securities, or financial-planning activities where relevant
• Assess financial controls and management decisions across branches, offices, or departments
• Evaluate risk, compliance, and operational considerations
• Identify financial-management issues requiring escalation or corrective action
• Apply professional judgement across different financial-service and corporate finance contexts
• Compare alternative financial-management responses or approaches
• Assess outputs based on financial soundness, regulatory compliance, and analytical rigour
• Identify meaningful differences between stronger and weaker approaches
• Determine whether recommendations are realistic and professionally defensible
• Provide clear reasoning supporting evaluation decisions
• Review financial work products for accuracy and professional quality
• Identify substantive analytical, financial, regulatory, and reporting weaknesses
• Distinguish material financial issues from minor presentation concerns
• Provide precise, evidence-based written feedback
• Apply evaluation standards consistently across assignments

Benefits

• Part-time independent contractor engagement
• Fully remote
• Availability of 20+ hours per week
• Immediate start
• Initial project duration of approximately 4–6 weeks
• Compensation: $60–$100/hour for hourly project work
• The initial assignment is task-based; contributors who successfully complete and receive approval for their first task may then qualify for hourly work for the remainder of the project
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on project needs and performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed