Program Manager - Business Transformation & Strategy

Posted 2 Days Ago
New York, NY, USA
In-Office
Junior
Information Technology • Software
The Role
Lead cross-functional transformation initiatives: break down strategy into tasks, run pilots, analyze KPIs, map processes, track risks, and prepare executive presentations while managing multiple workstreams to convert pilots into operational processes.
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Summary

Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path.

What a Successful Program Manager (Transformation) Does
  • Break down strategic goals into structured analyses, tasks, and clear deliverables.
  • Support cross-functional workstreams across Sales, Servicing, Billing, Product, and Technology.
  • Conduct data analysis, process mapping, and issue identification to highlight risks and opportunities.
  • Help design and execute small-scale pilots across onboarding, servicing, and pricing.
  • Track KPIs, analyze pilot performance, and generate insights to support decision-making.
  • Assist in converting successful pilots into operational processes with Product and Technology teams.
  • Prepare polished executive-ready documents, presentations, and dashboards.
  • Maintain strong project discipline—timeline tracking, risk logs, RAID items, follow-ups, and documentation.
  • Work independently with minimal oversight and proactively push progress forward.
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, analytics, engineering, or a related field—or equivalent experience
  • 1–4 years in business operations, strategy execution, consulting, or process improvement (internships acceptable if highly relevant).
  • Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous problems into structured components.
  • Strong analytical skills, including comfort with data manipulation and KPI tracking.
  • Excellent communication and slide‑building skills (comfortable presenting to managers and directors).
  • Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed environments.
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams and follow through without constant direction.
Preferred Qualifications 
  • Experience at a top-tier consulting firm (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture Strategy, Big 4 Advisory) or comparable consulting/project-based environment.
  • Exposure to transformation, operating model redesign, or customer experience improvement initiatives.
  • Experience with process mapping tools and project tools (JIRA, Confluence).
  • Strong proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with SQL or BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) is a plus.
  • Prior experience in payments, financial services, or fintech preferred but not required.
  • Demonstrated problem‑solving toolkit (hypotheses, root-cause analysis, stakeholder interviews, KPI frameworks).
Eligibility Requirements
  • Must be willing to submit to a background investigation and drug test as part of the selection process.
  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have authorization to work in the country without the need for sponsorship.
Job Type
  • Full-Time
Schedule
  • Monday to Friday
Location 
  • On-site in New York City, NY 
Benefits
  • Health insurance 
  • Health savings account
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Disability insurance
  • Childcare assistance
  • Education reimbursement
  • Fitness membership
  • Volunteer time off

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by their immediate supervisor or management. Principals only.

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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in business, finance, analytics, engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
  • 1-4 years in business operations, strategy execution, consulting, or process improvement (internships acceptable)
  • Ability to break down ambiguous problems into structured components
  • Strong analytical skills, comfort with data manipulation and KPI tracking
  • Excellent communication and slide-building skills; comfortable presenting to managers and directors
  • Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed environments
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams and follow through without constant direction
  • Willingness to submit to a background investigation and drug test
  • Authorization to work in the country without the need for visa sponsorship
  • On-site work in New York City, NY
  • Experience at a top-tier consulting firm or comparable consulting/project-based environment
  • Exposure to transformation, operating model redesign, or customer experience improvement initiatives
  • Experience with process mapping tools and project tools (JIRA, Confluence)
  • Strong proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
  • Familiarity with SQL or BI tools (Power BI, Tableau)
  • Prior experience in payments, financial services, or fintech
  • Demonstrated problem-solving toolkit (hypotheses, root-cause analysis, stakeholder interviews, KPI frameworks)
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The Company
HQ: Dallas, TX
344 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

Your success is our objective. We have more than a decade of service providing business intelligence solutions and applying extensive experience and knowledge to your business requirements. From its roots in the finance, banking, and the payments industry, Aperia expanded to become the preeminent provider of ETL, BI, and hosted solutions in a variety of industries. Aperia platforms scale with industry, processing massive volumes on time. The Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms support millions of end users creating billions of transactions per day, all with the speed and reliability required for business. The company’s management combines more than a century in finance, business consulting, rapid growth, and governance, as well as business intelligence, the company’s core function. Aperia knows that data holds power and providing the precision tools to release that power from data in any format is our passion, skill, and talent.

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