Manager, Strategy & Transformation (Data & Integration)

Highspring•McLean, VA

2d•$109,062 - $178,411•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.