Operations Manager - Finance

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of core banking implementation upgrades and platform conversions across multiple workstreams.
• Define program scope, objectives, milestones, and success criteria in partnership with business and technology leadership.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, resource forecasts, and delivery schedules.
• Drive risk and issue management, proactively identifying and resolving program-level dependencies and blockers.
• Lead change management and readiness activities to ensure a smooth transition to new core platforms.
• Provide clear, regular status reporting to stakeholders, steering committees, and executive sponsors.
• Cook up cross-functional teams, vendors, and system integrators throughout the full delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure delivery aligns with applicable financial regulations, controls, and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Senior-level program project management experience leading core banking upgrades and conversions.
• Demonstrated success delivering large, complex programs in banking or financial services.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across business, technology, and vendor teams.
• Bachelor's degree in business, technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Qualifications

• Core Banking platforms: Deposits and Certificates of Deposit (CDs), Loans and Loan Syndication, Cards (Credit and Debit), ACH and payment frameworks, US Tax and financial regulations.
• Agile/Scrum delivery methodology.
• Risk and issue management.
• Resource and schedule planning.
• Stakeholder reporting.
• Change management.
• Planview (project portfolio management tool).