Remote | Strategic Project Lead, Finance Expertise — $400,000–$550,000/year

Job description

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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