Director, Enterprise Strategy

The Director, Enterprise Strategy is a mission-critical leadership position reporting to the Vice President, Enterprise Strategy (VP). This role is responsible for managing the execution of the enterprise-level strategic planning, goal-setting frameworks, and performance measurement processes. These functions are essential to FINRA fully realizing the benefits of its strategic realignment and the continued adoption of more data-driven insights to inform senior management decision-making.
This role works directly and effectively with Senior leaders across the enterprise to operationalize the multi-year strategic plan, in alignment with corporate goals and priorities. The Director leads the ongoing monitoring of progress (through OKRs/KPIs), analyzes enterprise performance, and oversees the production of high stakes reporting for the Management Committee (MC) and Board.

Essential Job Functions:

• Enterprise Planning Execution: Owns and directs the annual enterprise-level strategic planning and goal-setting timeline and process, ensuring functional strategies align with the broader goals of the organization.
• Strategy Project Management Office (PMO) & Governance: Serves as the operational lead for the Strategy PMO function; establishes guardrails and change control processes to ensure the integrity of enterprise goals, measurement, and reporting for the MC and Board.
• Board & MC Reporting: Leads the preparation of narrative-driven reviews, materials, and presentations for Board meetings and strategy sessions; ensures accuracy and strategic alignment in deliverables for the VP and CFAO.
• Strategic Alignment: Collaborates with Finance and functional leaders to ensure resource allocation and program elements are seamlessly linked to the organization’s strategic priorities.
• Analysis & Decision Support: Leads sophisticated, high-impact analysis on complex issues—including market sourcing, benchmarking, and spending analysis—to provide data-backed recommendations for executive decision-making.
• Initiative Management: Manages enterprise-wide multi-faceted corporate initiatives with organizational significance; establishes rigorous success metrics; and works cross-functionally to proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies that could impact strategic outcomes.
• Performance Measurement: Assesses the effectiveness of metrics within business functions to determine if they are driving the appropriate outcomes and informs decisions on necessary adjustments.
• Methodology & Best Practices: Maintains expert level knowledge of industry developments in strategic planning and performance management, ensuring the team leverages best-in-class tools and methodologies.
• Team Leadership: Manage and support team in their day-to-day responsibilities to execute the goals and priorities of the program. Mentor and coach team members, providing timely and effective feedback, identifying skill gaps, and implementing training opportunities where needed.
• Demonstration of FINRA’s values.
• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Other Responsibilities:

• May lead cross-organizational working groups to address specific strategic questions or corporate initiatives as assigned.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or business administration; advanced degree or relevant certification(s) desired.

• Minimum of ten (10) years relevant experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, FP&A, or a business operations role.

• Minimum five (5) years in a people leader role.

• Extensive experience leading cross-functional strategic planning cycles and enterprise-wide initiatives.

• Proven/extensive experience with strategic modeling, framework development, and OKR/KPI methodology.

• In-depth project and program management skills; experience operating a PMO or similar governance function.

• Proven ability to collaborate and influence without direct authority to achieve outcomes.

• Strong business acumen with the ability to work autonomously to execute against department goals.

• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data into executive-level insights.

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, specifically in crafting presentations for senior leadership.

• Excellent computer skills, proficient in MS Office Suite.

Work Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements.

• Extended hours and overnight travel as needed.

For work that is performed in CO, FL, TX, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, Washington, DC, NY and NJ, please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations. 

CO/FL/TX: Minimum Salary $134,400, Maximum Salary $260,400

IL/PA: Minimum Salary $147,600, Maximum Salary $286,500

MA/MD/VA/Washington, DC: Minimum Salary $154,400, Maximum Salary $299,600

NY/NJ: Minimum Salary $154,400, Maximum Salary $312,600

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To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal, state, or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness, FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, and other benefits that support employee wellness, such as adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

Important Information

FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code’s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

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As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.

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