Job Description
Along with its affiliate companies, Affinius Capital invests across the risk spectrum for a global client base, managing over $61 billion in gross assets under management within a diversified portfolio across North America and Europe. Affinius Capital provides strategic equity and debt capital, including to capitalize on the accelerating demand for technology-driven real estate assets, to meet the critical need for housing solutions, and for other market and capital structure opportunities exhibiting compelling risk-return characteristics. For more information, visit affiniuscapital.com.
The Vice President Process Excellence will be responsible for leading enterprise-wide Technology projects across the organization and will be an integral part of the Process Improvement and Project Management function at Affinius Capital. This is a challenging role that will have significant influence across all areas of the company as we work to continually accelerate the business.
Essential Duties:
- Portfolio Management and Governance – Supports administration and organization of IT projects across the business. Focuses on elements such as project budgets, resource use, and timelines when making prioritized decisions. Manages development teams through an AGILE methodology.
- Process and Project Stewardship – Develop and facilitate the adoption of process and project best practices across the organization.
- Project Coordination - Determines goals to expedite a team of associates through project life cycle. Resolves issues, guides routine work activities, and keeps team on track with project schedule. Improves workflow by implementing suggested process enhancements.
- Strategy Support - Assists in the strategic development, execution, and management of projects. Maximizes available resources while minimizing risk. Ensuring high quality results by employing best practices, engaging appropriate expertise, and suggesting efficiency improvements.
- Collaboration - Works in conjunction with individuals, business units, and outside parties. Assists in negotiations with external consultants or vendors. Facilitates communication across functions to enhance process flow.
- Reporting - Conducts methods of tracking progress and performance. Conveys results of tracking to appropriate parties through reports or other documentation.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Personal Traits We Value:
- A genuine appreciation for Affinius Capital’s business, goals, strategies, and needs
- Highly adaptable, self-motivated, and comfortable operating with ambiguity and autonomy
- Collaborative and consensus-oriented, building trust and alignment across teams, functions, and external partners
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Informaton Systems, Business Administration or related field. Four additional years of directly related work experience may be considered in lieu of required education.
- 6 years of experience in process and project stewardship within the financial services or real estate investment industry.
- Exceptional facilitation and communication skills and the ability to present information effectively and tailor message to all levels of the organization through written and verbal methods.
- Ability to work across multiple, distributed, functional groups.
- Strong enterprise-wide vision (seeing the big picture) with strong attention to detail.
- Aptitude for understanding organization operations and culture and the related functional capabilities of implemented enterprise applications (custom and off-the-shelf).
- Able to manage several simultaneous initiatives and shifting priorities with composure
- Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving instincts, with a bias toward practical, measurable outcomes
- Familiarity with standard software development methods (SDLC, Agile, etc.)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (PPT, Excel, Visio) and an aptitude for technology.
- Willing to work onsite full-time in the San Antonio office.
- Qualifications may warrant placement in different job title.
Key Competencies:
- Certifications or relevant training in any of the following areas: Lean Six Sigma, Business Process Management, Quality Management or Engineering.
- Experience with Scaled Agile Execution (SCRUM/KANBAN concepts).
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At Affinius Capital our employees enjoy generous benefits packages including comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, educational and professional designation assistance, casual dress attire and much more! The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.
Affinius Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.