Finance Operate - Manager - Governance & Standards Lead
About the role
Join our Finance Transformation team to help shape the future of finance. Collaborate with CFOs, finance leaders, and executive clients to solve complex challenges and deliver innovative, market-driven solutions.
Responsibilities
Establish governance frameworks, delivery standards, and quality guardrails for the Tech Enablement team across all workstreams.
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).