Manager, Strategy & Transformation (Integration Management Office)

The Team – Strategy & Transformation

Join a team of talented professionals with deep business and finance transformation experience to guide clients through major transactions (M&A, carve outs, IPOs), new system implementations, and organizational challenges. We help organizations develop business strategy and execute on transformation initiatives in the areas of operational accounting, financial process improvement, financial technology enablement, FP&A, and transactions.

Your Impact

Work with a diverse set of commercial clients ranging from growth and mid-size companies to leading enterprise Fortune 100 brands.

Help companies develop, plan for, and execute complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings.

Lead Integration Management Office and Separation Management Office teams and workstreams, working with client stakeholders across multiple companies and investor groups.

Facilitate client planning sessions ranging from executive and board level meetings to joint integration/separation planning and requirements gathering exercises.

Lead current state assessments of target companies and build transaction roadmaps.

Leverage a “roll-up your sleeves” style to develop and execute against clients’ strategic initiatives.

Manage and coach project teams to deliver complex engagements.

Participate in business development efforts across all stages (market analysis, client sourcing, relationship building, proposal development, oral presentations).

Build and maintain meaningful relationships with clients at all levels that are based on integrity and trust.

Contribute to industry best perspectives on the implications of market trends impacting the M&A market and its stakeholders (e.g. the state of the capital markets, private equity transformation, emerging technology, regulatory winds, etc.).

Your Experience

Minimum Qualifications

BA/BS in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related discipline

5+ years of client-facing experience in a professional services organization, and/or highly relevant industry experience (specifically within insurance and/or financial services) in executing complex M&A or restructuring transactions

Demonstrated track record of planning and executing large scale integration, separation, or restructuring plans

Functional experience with the following:

Standing up and managing major Integration Management Office / Separation Management Office organizations

Conducting finance, technology, and/or operational due diligence

Developing pre-legal day 1 (LD1), LD1, and post-LD1 requirements and plans

Facilitating integration / separation planning sessions around integration blueprints for integration across people, product, technology, data, etc.

Working across stakeholder groups to develop cross-functional workplans and targets – including groups such as Finance, Technology, Underwriting, Policy Administration, Claims, Actuarial Science, Product, HR, Legal, Risk, Cybersecurity, etc.

Partnering with product, marketing, and branches to strengthen customer acquisition and retention.

Developing future state target operating models for the post-LD1 company(ies)

Technology standup, conversions, and cutovers (including planning, data mapping, development, testing, and go-live)

Assessing current state operations and processes and designing and implementing interim and permanent processes

Prior experience working directly with and advising C-Level executives, including experience presenting complex ideas and facilitating executive workshops

Experience supporting firm growth initiatives including business development, proposals, client orals presentations, etc.

Highly effective interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence

Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

Master of Business Administration (may substitute for business-related undergraduate degree)

Previous experience working within the financial services, insurance carrier, and / or insurance brokerage industries

Progressive responsibility in managing client relationships and achievement against business development goals

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law, Highspring believes that the following salary range reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure to be between the range below. The individual may also be eligible for a variety of bonus and financial incentives based on individual and company performance.

Base Compensation Range

$109,062 — $178,411 USD

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