Financial Services Delivery & Transformation Executive
$290k - $320k+ Bonus + RSU eligibility
Expert
New York, NY, USA
Remote
Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership
About the job
Requirements
- Executive delivery leader with multi-account portfolio ownership and a track record of predictable execution.
- Financial Services domain credibility in banking, capital markets, payments, insurance, and/or wealth or asset management.
- Profit-and-loss and margin leadership, including forecasting discipline, cost-to-serve management, and commercial rigor in scope and change control.
- Delivery governance and risk management across onshore/offshore, managed services, and product-enabled delivery models.
- Ability to scale teams through coaching, succession planning, and cross-functional influence.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery excellence and delivered margin across the Financial Services portfolio.
- Set delivery standards, build leadership bench strength, and create repeatable assets to support delivery at scale.
- Set governance, operating rhythms, and quality standards, and drive predictable execution.
- Lead portfolio risk, audit readiness, and resiliency expectations for regulated Financial Services environments, including security, privacy, and controls.
- Influence enterprise delivery strategy, talent, and operating models.
- Coach and scale delivery leadership, including succession planning, capacity planning, cross-capability integration, and delivery culture.
- Drive profitable growth through reuse and AI-enabled practices while reducing escalations and improving client outcomes and satisfaction.
- Set portfolio delivery strategy aligned with Financial Services growth priorities and client outcomes.
- Define and enforce governance and operating rhythms across accounts, including weekly and quarterly business reviews, dashboards, risk reviews, and decision forums.
- Establish accountability and performance management across ADOs and delivery leaders, and intervene to course-correct programs.
- Own escalations and crisis response, protect outcomes and reputation, drive root-cause fixes, and prevent recurrence.
- Own portfolio profitability and delivered margin through forecasting rigor and active cost-to-serve management.
- Set and enforce commercial guardrails covering scope and change control, productivity, partner strategy, and rate integrity.
- Shape deals with industry and sales leadership to enable profitable, repeatable delivery, including delivery models, milestones and acceptance, and risk pricing.
- Drive early-warning indicators and corrective action plans, and increase cross-account synergies and asset reuse.
- Translate Financial Services operating constraints, including risk, compliance, regulatory oversight, and controls, into delivery requirements and plans.
- Embed security, privacy, data residency, resiliency, and audit readiness into delivery governance and execution.
- Own portfolio risk identification and mitigation across delivery, financial, operational, third-party, and reputational risks, with transparent client communication.
- Partner with Risk/Compliance, Security, and Legal to ensure controls and evidence meet client and regulatory scrutiny.
- Build a high-performance delivery culture balancing client outcomes, quality, profitability, and people health.
- Mentor and evaluate ADOs and delivery leaders, and build succession plans and bench strength for scale.
- Lead portfolio workforce planning, including capacity, demand forecasting, critical role coverage, and leadership allocation.
- Partner with People Strategy/HR on performance and retention, and model inclusive, accountable leadership in a matrixed organization.
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled delivery practices and modern engineering methods to improve quality, speed, and scalability.
- Build and scale reusable assets across accounts, including playbooks, patterns, reference architectures, automation, and industry accelerators.
- Uplift delivery maturity through enablement partnerships and communities of practice that share learnings and reduce reinvention.
- Serve as an executive counterpart to senior client stakeholders and lead or support portfolio-level steering committees and executive business reviews.
- Align with the Industry Lead on account prioritization, investment decisions, and growth strategy, and provide data-driven visibility into delivery health.
- Cultivate trusted relationships with senior client executives and participate in strategic account growth and expansion discussions.
- Influence cross-functional executives in Finance, Capacity, People Strategy, and Product/Engineering enablement to remove blockers and drive portfolio outcomes.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience leading large-scale Financial Services transformations in modernization, digital channels, data/AI, or risk/compliance, and building reusable assets or accelerators.
- Experience with managed services, including SLAs/SLOs and continuous improvement, and/or AI governance in regulated environments.
About the company
Publicis Groupe runs advertising, media buying and digital transformation services for companies that want to reach consumers, coordinate campaigns and improve their business systems. Its agency network includes creative and media specialists, while Publicis Sapient builds and modernizes the technology behind clients' operations. Epsilon adds customer data and marketing technology that connect brands with audiences and measure campaign results. Clients pay for consulting, campaign creation and execution, with production and media costs billed through alongside the group's service work. Founded in 1926, Publicis Groupe is headquartered in Paris, France.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1926
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Growth is holding up: July 2026 results showed 4.7% organic net revenue growth in the first half.
- Data work is expanding: Publicis agreed in May 2026 to buy LiveRamp and its data collaboration business.
- International experience has a formal route: WorkYourWorld gives approved Publicis employees up to six weeks abroad annually.
What critics are saying
- Accounts are vulnerable: Publicis' top 100 clients generated 58% of 2025 revenue, with short-notice contract exits.
- Employees face continuing reorganization: July 2026 results reported €76 million restructuring costs, up from €63 million.
- Expansion adds interest costs: September 2026 LiveRamp financing priced €500 million of bonds with a 4.125% coupon.
What makes Publicis Groupe unique
- Agency collaboration has financial backing: Publicis unifies profit accounts and gives each global client one accountable leader.
- Epsilon connects ads to purchases: its CORE ID uses transaction data rather than third-party cookies.
- Leadership continuity is unusual: Arthur Sadoun is only Publicis Groupe's third CEO.
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Benefits
- Remote Work Options
- Hybrid Work Options
- Training Programs