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At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care, a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 700,000 clients on their path to a brighter future.
While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.
The SVP of Business Transformation will lead enterprise-wide strategic initiatives. This role is responsible for identifying transformation opportunities, driving end-to-end execution, and ensuring organizational alignment around key change initiatives. The SVP will work closely with executive leadership across product, engineering, technology, compliance, finance, and analytics business teams to embed transformation into the core of how the company operates.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a comprehensive transformation roadmap aligned with the company’s growth strategy, business goals, and market evolution.
- Partner with senior leaders across departments to define, prioritize, and deliver high-impact transformation initiatives that improve speed, efficiency, quality, and scalability.
- Lead efforts to reengineer core business processes (e.g., onboarding, customer service, business operations) to reduce friction, improve outcomes, and enable automation.
- Identify and deploy technology solutions and operational innovations that drive automation, real-time decisioning, and data-driven workflows.
- Foster a culture that embraces transformation, challenges legacy thinking, and prioritizes speed and adaptability in everything we do.
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience in business transformation, operational strategy, or management consulting, including 8+ years in senior leadership roles
- Strong fintech, financial services, or technology experience required
- Proven track record leading large-scale transformation initiatives across complex, fast-growing organizations
- Expertise in process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, Agile) and modern enterprise technologies
- Exceptional strategic thinking, communication, and change leadership skills
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent graduate degree strongly preferred
Why Join Us?
While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:
- Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
- Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
- 401(k) matching program
- Merit advancement opportunities
- Career development & training
And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.
Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions. No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team. No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.
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