Finance Operate - Manager - Governance & Standards Lead

About the role

Recruiting for this role ends 09/30/2026.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement governance frameworks, delivery standards, and quality guardrails for the Tech Enablement team across all workstreams.
• Establish and maintain documentation standards for solution architecture, process flows, integration designs, and AI/automation outputs.
• Define cross-team consistency requirements—templates, naming conventions, reuse patterns, and review checkpoints—to reduce rework and accelerate delivery.
• Own the team's operating model documentation, including onboarding guides, delivery playbooks, and escalation protocols.
• Identify, assess, and communicate delivery and technical risks across all active workstreams; develop and track mitigation plans.
• Ensure platform solutions meet finance-specific compliance requirements, including SOX controls, audit trails, access controls, and data retention policies.
• Partner with technical architects and process leads to embed control points into solution designs (approvals, segregation of duties, auditability).
• Lead readiness assessments for platform deployments, ensuring quality gates are met before production releases.
• Serve as the integration point across US and offshore workstreams to ensure alignment on standards, timelines, and dependencies.
• Facilitate governance forums, design reviews, and quality checkpoints; escalate blockers proactively.
• Track and report on team-level KPIs, delivery metrics, and quality indicators for leadership visibility.
• Mentor team members on governance, documentation, and quality practices.
• Champion continuous improvement of the team's delivery operating model as the team scales.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Finance, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in technology delivery, consulting, or program management, with demonstrated ownership of governance and standards functions.
• Strong understanding of risk management, quality assurance, and compliance frameworks in a technology or consulting context.
• Experience developing and enforcing documentation, delivery, and quality standards across distributed teams.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and organizational skills; proven ability to work across senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with finance-specific compliance and controls requirements (SOX, audit trail, access control frameworks).
• Ability to travel 25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Preferred: PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or related program management/delivery certifications.
• Experience in managed services or Finance Operate delivery environments.
• Knowledge of AI/automation governance considerations (model risk, auditability, bias mitigation).
• Familiarity with Agile delivery tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence).