Financial Services Solutions Lead

MorganFranklin Consulting LLC; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Highspring seeks a Manager in its Financial Services team to lead complex, ambiguous client challenges from concept through execution. You will drive solution design across strategy, operations, data, risk, and technology, guiding multi-disciplinary teams and client executives.

You will connect business objectives with technology enablement, leveraging Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, and AI-enabled modernization. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in business, accounting, finance, information systems, data analytics, or related field.
• 5+ years in financial services consulting, transformation, or architecture.
• Experience across lending, deposits, payments, treasury, finance, risk and controls, regulatory change.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex workstreams or transformation initiatives.
• Ability to define approach from ambiguous problems and develop executable solutions.
• Experience designing future-state solutions across people, process, data, technology, governance, and operating models.
• Translating business needs into functional requirements, designs, or implementation plans.
• Leading cross-functional teams and coordinating stakeholders.
• Leading client workshops, working sessions, and requirements forums.
• Strong executive communication, synthesis of complex issues into recommendations.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and their impact on financial services.
• Familiarity with Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Power Automate or similar.
• MS Office experience: PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook.
• Willingness to travel 25% plus onsite flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of practical business solutions translating strategy into executable changes across people, process, data, technology, governance, and controls.
• Own complex client problems from definition through design and implementation with limited senior oversight.
• Lead design and modernization of financial services platforms including lending, underwriting, servicing, payments, and treasury.
• Design finance architectures spanning ledgers, consolidation, and regulatory reporting.
• Lead assessments on how enterprise data platforms support reporting, analytics, risk management, and AI.
• Apply modern cloud and data platforms like Azure, Snowflake, Databricks to broader solutions.
• Identify opportunities to redesign processes using AI, automation, and low-code tools such as Power Automate.
• Help clients establish OKRs, KPIs, and performance-management frameworks.
• Lead risk transformation across operational and regulatory domains.
• Lead workstreams in M&A integration, finance transformation, and data/AI modernization.
• Evaluate alternatives, guiding clients through tradeoffs on value, risk, and execution.
• Serve as day-to-day advisor to client leaders with concrete recommendations.
• Lead solution-design workshops, executive sessions, interviews, and decision forums.
• Bridge business and technology teams to translate objectives into requirements.
• Anticipate risks and dependencies, driving resolution.
• Review analyses to ensure practical, well-supported solutions.

Skills

Executive communication

Leadership

Client workshops

Requirements gathering

PowerPoint

Excel

Team collaboration

Education

BA/BS in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Technology, Operations, or related

MBA or other advanced degree

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Power Automate

Job description

Highspring seeks a Manager in its Financial Services team to lead complex, ambiguous client challenges from concept through execution. You will drive solution design across strategy, operations, data, risk, and technology, guiding multi-disciplinary teams and client executives.

You will connect business objectives with technology enablement, leveraging Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, and AI-enabled modernization. Travel up to 25% may be required.