VP, Transformation & Strategy

Ryan, LLC; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility hybrid/remote options

Health, dental, vision coverage from第一

Paid parental leave & sabbatical after

401(k) employer match

Tuition reimbursement after one year

Fitness reimbursement

Award-winning workplace

Job summary

Ryan, LLC in Plano, TX seeks a senior leader to drive enterprise transformation and IPO readiness. You will own strategic initiatives, align cross-functional teams, and translate complex analytics into actionable execution plans that scale across the firm.

The role requires deep experience in program governance, finance and technology, with a track record of delivering measurable value and sustained improvements.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in program management, enterprise transformation or large-scale tech implementations.
• Hands-on IPO/public company readiness experience, including SOX and internal controls.
• Demonstrated ERP leadership across multi-year, cross-functional programs.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent strongly preferred.
• Experience in professional/financial services environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integrated enterprise transformation and IPO readiness program across ERP, HCM, billing, CRM, data and integrations.
• Coordinate workstream PMs to align with program plan, milestones and dependencies.
• Develop a master program plan with critical path, milestones, and resource needs.
• Translate IPO readiness requirements into defined deliverables with accountable owners.

Skills

Program management

Enterprise transformation

IPO readiness

Executive communication

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Workday

Power BI

Tableau

Smartsheet

Salesforce

Job description

Why Ryan?

• Flexibility Built for Life: Hybrid and remote work options, depending on the role
• Benefits Starting Day One: Health, dental, and vision coverage effective on your first day for you and your eligible dependents
• Support for Growing Families: 14 weeks of 100% paid leave for new parents, including adoption, plus access to a fertility assistance program
• Time to Recharge: Generous paid time off and eligibility for a four-week, company-paid sabbatical after five years of service
• Investing in Your Future: 401(k) employer match and tuition reimbursement after one year of service
• Fitness Reimbursement: Choose a monthly gym membership or eligible home fitness equipment reimbursement
• An Award-Winning Workplace: Join a culture recognized for its team member experience

The Vice President, Transformation & Strategy serves as a high-impact, senior enterprise leader responsible for shaping, prioritizing, and driving Ryan’s transformation agenda to deliver measurable, sustained value creation. This role owns the integration of strategy, analytics, and execution discipline across the firm, ensuring that enterprise initiatives are rigorously prioritized, clearly quantified, and relentlessly tracked to outcomes. Reporting to the CTSO and partnering closely with executive leadership, the VP translates strategic ambition into executed results by ensuring completion of selected enterprise initiatives and accelerating change at scale. This role elevates Ryan’s transformation capability to best-in-class standards by embedding financial and operational rigor, KPI discipline, and accountability into every major initiative, while enabling scalability, efficiency, controls, and superior client service. In particular, this role serves as a hands‑on transformation leader to drive a complex, enterprise-wide transformation and IPO readiness program. This is a senior leadership role that must operate at both strategic and tactical levels—leading workstream project managers, managing complex dependencies, removing roadblocks, holding implementation partners accountable, and driving alignment and decisions across senior leadership.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Enterprise Program Leadership & Execution: Lead the integrated enterprise transformation and IPO readiness program across ERP, HCM, billing, CRM, data, integrations, and related business initiatives.
• Lead and coordinate workstream project managers across functional and technical teams, ensuring alignment with the integrated program plan, milestones, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Develop and maintain an integrated master program plan, including critical path, milestones, cross-workstream dependencies, resource requirements, and key decision points.
• Proactively identify and remove roadblocks impacting program execution, working across teams and leadership to resolve issues, manage competing priorities, and maintain delivery momentum.
• Program Governance, Risk & Issue Management: Manage program governance, including leadership meetings, program reviews, stage gates, decision-making processes, and executive reporting.
• Own the program's CRAID (Constraints, Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decisions) management process, ensuring clear ownership, mitigation plans, and timely resolution.
• Drive issue resolution and escalation, ensuring critical risks, issues, and decisions are addressed at the appropriate leadership level with clear recommendations and actionable solutions.
• Translate IPO and public company readiness requirements into defined deliverables, accountable owners, timelines, and dependencies, connecting technology delivery to SOX, financial close, revenue recognition, and audit readiness.
• Provide concise, transparent executive updates on program health, progress, critical path, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Stakeholder Leadership & Program Management Excellence: Facilitate executive and cross-functional working sessions to drive alignment, resolve competing priorities, and accelerate critical decisions.
• Partners with internal client groups and executive leaders to identify, prioritize, and structure high-impact transformation initiatives aligned to Ryan’s strategic objectives.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership by translating complex data, analytics, and scenarios into clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
• Owns enterprise transformation value discipline, including value-at-stake identification, financial impact modeling, KPI definition, and benefits tracking.
• Monitors transformation performance through dashboards, analytics, and structured reviews, identifying risks, gaps, and opportunities for course correction.
• Influence senior stakeholders across the firm without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Own and expand adoption of the organization’s internal program management framework, methodologies, and tools across the business.
• Lead a cross-functional transformation team, with direct reports added over time, while providing direction for existing Transformation & Strategy team members.

Education and Experience

• 15+ years of progressive experience in program management, enterprise transformation, or large-scale technology implementations, including leadership of complex, multi-year, cross-functional programs.
• Hands‑on experience with IPO or public company readiness initiatives, including an understanding of financial reporting, internal controls, SOX compliance, and operational readiness requirements.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale, complex ERP implementations through go‑live, preferably involving Finance and HCM, multiple integrated platforms, and significant business process transformation.
• Extensive experience leading and coordinating multiple workstream project managers, driving accountability, managing cross-functional dependencies, removing delivery roadblocks, and escalating critical issues to executive leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in business, finance, economics, engineering, analytics, or a related discipline.
• Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Background in professional services, financial services, or another services business preferred.

Computer Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel for financial modeling, scenario analysis, and performance measurement.
• Expert-level PowerPoint skills for executive‑ready presentations and strategic storytelling.
• Experience with emerging analytical tools and techniques, including automation, machine learning, and AI‑enabled insights.
• Experience with data visualization and dashboarding tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Familiarity with enterprise analytics platforms, BI environments, and performance reporting systems.
• Smartsheet experience for enterprise program management, including integrated project plans, dashboards, automated reporting, and portfolio-level visibility; Smartsheet Control Center experience is a plus.

Required Skills

• Exceptional analytical, quantitative, and problem‑solving capability, with the ability to distill complexity into clear insights.
• Advanced proficiency in enterprise program and project management methodologies, tools, and disciplines, including integrated master schedules, critical path analysis, CRAID management, stage gates, resource planning, and executive dashboards.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve complex program challenges, balance competing priorities, and drive decisions across multiple stakeholders.
• Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive accountability across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate data into compelling narratives for senior leaders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across functional groups and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• High degree of curiosity, initiative, and drive, with a commitment to continuous improvement and operational rigor.
• Strong financial modeling skills and experience developing robust business cases.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Workday, a modern billing platform, or a large Salesforce redesign.
• Experience operating within or alongside a Transformation Office, Strategy function, or Value Realization Office.
• Background in professional services or advisory environments with high expectations for rigor and client service.

Certificates and Licenses

Valid driver’s license required.

Work Environment

• Standard indoor working environment.
• Occasional long periods of sitting or standing while working.
• Position requires regular interaction with employees and clients both in person and via e‑mail and telephone.
• Target in‑office location (Plano): at least 3‑4 days per week.
• Independent travel requirement: 10%.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities.

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Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Accommodation

Ryan, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to compliance with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination. It is our policy to take all employment actions and make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy), affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, citizenship status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, disability, military status, status as a disabled or other protected veteran or any other protected status under applicable law. It is Ryan's policy to make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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