Manager, Financial Services Strategy & Transformation – Financial Services Transformation

Job Description

Manager, Strategy & Transformation (Financial Services) | MorganFranklin Consulting

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at MorganFranklin Consulting, primarily client-facing with hybrid flexibility. The company guides financial services clients through major transactions like M&A, carve-outs, IPOs, and system implementations. This role is critical for leading teams to solve complex and often ambiguous business challenges, design comprehensive solutions, and drive decisions that enable significant change.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: Hybrid with client travel
• Pay: $109062–$178411 USD yearly
• Team: Talented professionals with deep business and finance transformation experience.
• Mission: Owns the problem, solution, team, and outcome for complex, ambiguous challenges faced by banking and financial services clients undergoing significant change.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), FIS, Jack Henry, Fiserv, or other major banking platforms

What You’ll Actually Do
• Design Solutions: Lead the design of practical business solutions that translate strategic objectives and complex challenges into executable changes across process, people, technology, data, and controls.
• Manage Problems: Own complex client problems from initial definition through solution design and implementation, establishing the approach and direction with limited senior-level oversight.
• Advise Clients: Serve as the day-to-day advisor to client leaders, bringing informed perspectives and recommendations rather than simply facilitating activities or reporting status.
• Lead Teams: Lead teams through ambiguous or unfamiliar challenges, creating structure, establishing priorities, and determining the path forward when a predefined approach does not exist.
• Bridge Functions: Connect business, operational, technology, data, risk, regulatory, and financial considerations to solve problems that span traditional organizational boundaries.

The Must-Haves
• Background: BA/BS in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Operations, or related discipline, for a Manager-level role.
• Experience: 5+ years in banking, financial services consulting, or business transformation, with demonstrated subject matter expertise across multiple financial services and transformation domains. This includes experience independently leading complex workstreams, transformation initiatives, or business solution design efforts.
• Skills: Designing future-state business solutions across process, people, technology, data, controls, and operating models; identifying cross-functional and enterprise implications of proposed solutions; leading cross-functional teams and coordinating stakeholders with competing priorities; strong executive communication skills; and managing and developing junior team members.
• Bonus: Experience leading workstreams within a bank merger, acquisition integration, core banking conversion, regulatory transformation, or enterprise-wide change program. Familiarity with major banking platforms (FIS, Jack Henry, Fiserv) and regulatory expectations applicable to growing and increasingly complex banking organizations.