Finance Strategic Initiatives Manager Job Charlotte area,North Carolina USA,Finance & Banking

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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

The Finance Strategic Initiatives Manager is responsible for leading the design, execution, and continuous evolution of Finance’s workforce optimization and operating model strategy. This role partners across Finance leadership, Human Resources, Technology, and Enterprise Functions to develop scalable service delivery models, enhance organizational effectiveness, and drive sustainable efficiency while maintaining strong control and risk management standards.

The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of core Finance functions, including accounting, financial planning and analysis, regulatory and management reporting, controllership, treasury support, and finance operations. Leveraging this foundation, the Finance Strategic Initiatives Manager evaluates current-state processes, organizational structures, and service delivery approaches to identify opportunities for simplification, automation, centralization, outsourcing, and global delivery optimization.

This role serves as a strategic advisor to senior Finance leaders, helping shape future-state operating models that improve performance, capacity, talent deployment, and cost effectiveness. The position requires strong analytical, transformation, and change leadership capabilities, with the ability to translate enterprise strategy into practical workforce and operating model solutions that enable Finance to meet evolving business, regulatory, and stakeholder expectations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

Oversee project portfolios, aligning strategic initiatives with business goals while proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating project risks across programs.

Contribute as an integral member of the Finance team, providing effective thought leadership around strategy and prioritization of ideas and initiatives in support of Finance business processes, with an emphasis on optimization and efficiency.

Provide leadership and guidance to project teams in overseeing management of day-to-day prioritization and deliverables within assigned initiatives.

Manage large projects through end-to-end project management including standing up program/project/ sub-work streams, monitoring and prioritizing tasks and deliverables, ensuring creation of project deliverables in line with PMO best practices, making decisions on behalf of senior leadership, capacity management and monitoring initiative risks with necessary mitigation escalation.

Lead and own strategic key initiatives for Finance LOBs, influencing a broad spectrum of partners to drive decisions and progress for key objectives while balancing optimization and execution goals.

Advise Finance leadership on prioritization and effective implementation through clear guidance on objectives and project priorities, execution of project plan, analysis of downstream impacts and risks, escalation and effective challenge of project issues, and mitigation recommendations.

Manage and coordinate engagements with risk partners in the First, Second, and Third lines of defense for exams and reviews, to more efficiently provide documentation and responses to findings on behalf of assigned front office LOBs.

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