Financial Analysis & Reporting Senior Manager – Strategy and Operations (New York)

The D. E. Shaw group seeks a senior manager to join the Financial Analysis & Reporting (FA&R) group, part of the firm's Financial Operations function. This person will serve as the project manager for a major new finance data platform while supporting the group's day-to-day business and leading its adoption of generative AI. The role offers the opportunity to drive a significant technology project, with regular exposure to senior stakeholders across the firm.

What you’ll do day-to-day Serve as the project manager for the group's main technology initiative and its primary point of contact for the in-house engineering team, owning delivery in close partnership. Act as the group's business analyst, translating team pain points into clear problem statements and requirements, and supporting iterative design with engineering. Drive the group's adoption of generative AI, including hands-on enablement, and develop practices that teams across the function can reuse.

Apply generative AI to everyday work such as summarizing materials, tracking projects, and producing deliverables and visualizations. Own problems strategically, framing them, weighing approaches, and shaping longer-term plans for the group. Work with FA&R leadership and partner teams to align priorities, and manage deadlines and risk across concurrent workstreams. Work across teams on process improvements, with scope to take on additional initiatives as the group grows.

What we’re looking for A bachelor’s degree or higher and a minimum of ten years of relevant professional experience. Keen business-analysis and product-ownership instincts, including translating team needs into well-scoped, high-impact requirements. Proven experience managing senior stakeholders, including distilling complex information for senior audiences and coordinating priorities across leadership and partner teams.

Solid project management skills, with the ability to structure complex, high-stakes initiatives and manage deadlines and risk. Initiative in adopting new technology, with hands-on experience applying generative AI tools to real work and an interest in teaching those practices to others. Advanced Excel skills and sound quantitative judgment, including questioning number and system outputs rather than taking them at face value.

Comfort operating both strategically and tactically, with sound judgment on what to own versus delegate. The expected annual base salary for this position is $200,000 to $300,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.