Head of Strategy and Innovation

Are you ready to shape the future of financial technology? At Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT), we partner with thousands of the largest and most powerful financial institutions globally. They love what we do for them and with their data, and we know we can do more. We’re seeking a visionary Head of Strategy and Innovation to unlock new markets, create transformative products, and drive growth.

As our Head of Strategy and Innovation, you won’t just identify new opportunities to serve our sophisticated client base – you’ll turn bold ideas into market-leading solutions and be a catalyst for innovation, leading cross-functional teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving FRT’s continued positioning as a market leader. Specifically, you will:

Partner with senior leadership to identify, explore, analyze and cultivate market opportunities that leverage our strengths and drive strategic growth, both organically and inorganically

• Develop a deep understanding of FRT’s business, unique capabilities, market strengths, and current ecosystem to identify opportunities to extend our current products in our market and/or bring new products into adjacent markets
• Shape and refine our understanding of adjacent markets, the competitive landscape, and the target clients and segments, and identify potential synergies with our current business
• Develop a pipeline of market opportunities (including partnerships, acquisition targets and product development, ) that closely aligns with FRT’s growth objectives

Execute against identified opportunities in the pipeline

• Identify most promising opportunities and participants in adjacent markets
• Drive strategy, idea generation, opportunity sourcing, business case development, and build/buy/partner decision-making with respect to those opportunities
• Develop prototypes and proofs of concept that become new products to solve our clients' most challenging middle office problems

Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships

• Identify and collaborate with key players in our ecosystem across a range of industry verticals
• Develop strategic relationships with executives to build support and lead our team to substantive and conclusive assessments of business development opportunities

Our ideal candidate:

• Has a proven track record in strategy and innovation, ideally blending consulting expertise with hands-on experience in financial services or technology;
• Is engaging and highly credible, known for developing relationships, building presence, and earning/commanding respect of senior executives and boards of directors;
• Is a strategic thinker with business savvy and acumen and impeccable, data-driven judgment;
• Is resilient and determined in the face of obstacles and challenges;
• Is results-driven, zealously striving to meet targets and learning from any misses;
• Is intellectually curious, with a demonstrated commitment to continuous growth; and
• Is entrepreneurial in nature - t