Operations Leader, Education, Corporate, Remote

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Requirements:

• Extensive experience in an Operational/Financial Leadership role; ideally in a professional services organization.
• Experience successfully leading in a matrix environment
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, flexibly and establish credibility with the senior team and all levels within the organization.
• Keen project management skills and the ability to deliver results via influence, not simply with positional authority
• Demonstrated leadership and experience working effectively within a highly matrixed environment across the various functional areas
• Bachelor’s degree ideally in business, finance or accounting, advanced degree a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong executive presence with excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to learn quickly, work independently, and meet deadlines.
• Digitally fluent across a broad range of platforms (e.g. Workday, Power BI, Microsoft Office, etc.)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for thinking strategically and providing leadership in identifying opportunities for growth, driving margin improvement, and executing practice operations consistent with Enterprise’s strategic direction and standards.
• Responsible for defining and executing strong financial management strategies and practices, including oversight of Enterprise-defined processes e.g financial planning, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and cost control.
• In partnership with the industry leader, executing large-scale projects, driving complex operations (including comprehensive recurring business reviews, monitoring performance to plan, etc.), and being accountable for execution of follow-on actions and decisions to ensure business objectives of the service line are met.
• Model Huron’s Leadership Principles and Values bringing strong leadership skills, the ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve results, and a demonstrated track-record of engaging and developing talent.
• Lead the career development and day-to-day support tasks that OBPs/Financial Operations members aligned to Education Industry perform.
• As a point of escalation, the Operations Leader collaborates and supports the activities of the OBP and Financial Operations team aligned to different service/solution lines within the Education Industry.
• Lead broadly across the Enterprise to define, plan, and implement new/revised processes consistent with the strategic direction of the Enterprise.
• Evidences strong communication skills and consistently articulates complex ideas and strategies to a range of stakeholders across the industry segment.