About the job Remote | Strategic Project Lead, Finance Expertise — $400,000–$550,000/year
We are sharing a full-time opportunity for an experienced strategic project leader with strong Finance expertise, project ownership, data operations, stakeholder management, and human-data workflow experience to lead complex projects supporting advanced AI organisations and data-intensive initiatives.
The role combines finance-domain expertise with end-to-end project execution. The successful candidate will translate ambiguous customer requirements into clear specifications, design and improve finance-focused workflows, coordinate Operations and Finance subject-matter experts, manage delivery milestones, and maintain direct communication with senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Project & Finance Workflow Leadership
- Own complex projects from scoping through execution and final delivery
- Translate customer requirements into structured project plans and finance-focused workflow specifications
- Define milestones, dependencies, deliverables, quality standards, and success criteria
- Design workflows supporting financial analysis, modelling, investment, accounting, or related data-intensive tasks
- Resolve blockers quickly and maintain delivery momentum
Data Operations & Quality
- Design and refine finance-focused data pipelines and human-data workflows
- Coordinate expert-driven review, annotation, and evaluation processes
- Improve workflow efficiency, scalability, and operational reliability
- Establish data-quality and review procedures
- Identify bottlenecks and implement practical process improvements
Stakeholder & Team Management
- Work closely with Finance experts, Operations teams, project leads, and customers
- Own communication across scope, quality, timing, progress, and risk
- Align contributors around clear responsibilities and execution expectations
- Provide concise updates, feedback, and next steps
- Support rapid mobilisation of expert teams for new project requirements
AI & Human-Data Project Delivery
- Support projects involving AI training, evaluation, and human-generated data
- Translate customer objectives into scalable operational systems
- Apply Finance-domain judgement to project specifications and evaluation criteria
- Maintain strong execution across financial, operational, and technical workstreams
- Improve workflows supporting complex AI and data initiatives
Ideal Profile
- Strong professional background in Finance, Financial Engineering, Economics, Accounting, or a related discipline
- 2+ years of experience leading complex projects, operational workflows, or finance-related initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects from ambiguity through delivery
- Strong project-management, execution, and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience coordinating cross-functional or expert teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to work effectively with senior Finance professionals
- Strong attention to detail, ownership, urgency, and operational discipline
- Experience with financial modelling, investment analysis, financial markets, accounting, or related workflows is advantageous
- Experience with technical or data-intensive projects is valuable
- Familiarity with data pipelines, AI/ML organisations, data annotation, evaluation workflows, or human-in-the-loop systems is beneficial
Engagement Details
- Full-time engagement
- Fully remote
- Compensation: $400,000–$550,000/year
- Work will involve strategic project leadership, Finance workflows, stakeholder management, data operations, human-data pipelines, project delivery, and cross-functional coordination
- Responsibilities may span financial modelling, investment analysis, financial markets, accounting, data workflows, AI-training operations, and related project environments
- Regular communication with customers, Finance domain experts, Operations teams, and project leads is expected
- Project scope, priorities, customer requirements, and workflows may evolve based on business needs
- Work must be completed without using confidential, proprietary, regulated, client-identifiable, or otherwise restricted information belonging to any employer, financial institution, investment organisation, client, data provider, or other third party
About the Platform
This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.
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