Strategic Program Manager, Controllership

The role:

SoFi is seeking a Strategic Program Manager to join SoFi’s Controllership Team, reporting to our Chief Accounting Officer. In this role, you will partner cross-functionally to lead transformation projects and improvements throughout the Controllership organization. The Strategic Program Manager will play a key role in scaling the finance operations by managing strategic projects across the organization aimed at modernizing, accelerating, and enhancing financial processes. This role plays a critical role in the department's relentless pursuit of enhancing the efficiency, clarity and accuracy of financial information and ensuring our processes are industry leading. You should have a proven ability to build relationships/partnerships and work cross-functionally to drive time-sensitive deliverables, issues tracking, and reporting.

What you’ll do:

• Drive transformation that is in alignment with the Controllership organization’s strategy, goals, and technology roadmap 
• Partner with Controllership teams to drive process and system improvements to enable the organization to effectively and efficiently scale operations.
• Orchestrate large-scale, cross-functional projects, coordinating seamlessly between diverse teams to ensure successful execution and delivery time
• Responsible for tracking and understanding projects from original concept through final implementation, while preparing and presenting high-level reports on overall program progress, gaps, and key highlights to leadership 
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables and develop detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation
• Conduct regular project status meetings and provide updates to stakeholders and senior management
• Utilize project management tools and techniques to monitor and track project progress
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between technical and non-technical teams to achieve project objectives
• Work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to align efforts and drive organizational goals
• Prepare agendas, briefings, and materials for leadership meetings; track action items and follow up on deliverables

What you’ll need:

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Information Systems or a related degree
• 5+ years of progressive experience and a proven record of  leading programs and business management that combines strategic thinking with tactical execution
• Public company experience in a fast-growing global company
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects, priorities and complete objectives on time
• Demonstrated track record of successfully leading large transformational implementations
• Experienced in project management & system process analysis skills
• Ability to develop documentation for training and user procedures
• Ability to communicate at all levels with clarity and precision both written and verbally and strong presentation skills
• Ability to break down challenges/opportunities, build a strategy, write an action plan, identify resources, and project-manage to completion 
• High EQ to build relationships across all levels, departments, and personality types to lead without direct reporting lines 
• Track record of performance in a high-growth, dynamic environment 
• Bias toward action, strong analytical skills, and solid business judgment 
• Eagerness to roll up your sleeves to get things done (even the unglamorous things) 
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple work streams for different stakeholders
• Passion to learn, responsibly grow our business, and support our mission of helping members get their money right 

Nice to have:

• Experience in management consulting, fintech, banking/ financial services
• PMP, CPA, MBA
• Fluent in Spanish