Manager, Finance Application Business Support

Job Description Summary

Provide guidance, drive business transformation and strategic change, and create value by driving initiatives that reinvent the core of the business. Partner across the enterprise to introduce, enable, and adopt transformation methodologies and concepts within the product model. Model effectively—with deep understanding—agile execution, change management, and transformation advocacy across the business. Specialize in scaling transformation efforts across the organization, often leading multiple initiatives. Help more traditional companies transform to be product- or customer-led.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Manage projects or substantial workstreams within a transformational change program, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to build acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
• Champion an innovation stream within the innovation road map, ensuring the right resources are in place to execute on the strategy.
• Develop stakeholder engagement by identifying stakeholders; by finding out their needs, issues, and concerns; and by reacting to these needs, issues, and concerns to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Mentor, coach, support, and provide advice and guidance for service users, in accordance with guidelines and standards, to support them through issues and times of challenge and vulnerability.

Skills

• Review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Demonstrate a change mindset as well as plan, execute and monitor activities during times of change whilst keeping performance levels up.
• Shift into and out of a mental mindset associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment, and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario.

Education

Bachelor’s: Accounting, Bachelor’s: Business Administration, Bachelor’s: Data Processing

Work Experience

General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI)

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. 

We expect our associates at all levels to:
•  Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
•  Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
•  Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
•  Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
•  Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates.  When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.