Strategic Project Lead - Finance

About the role

The Strategic Project Lead - Finance will manage strategic finance pilots and research projects for financial AI model training and evaluation. This role bridges customer objectives with financial expertise and global delivery capabilities to turn emerging use cases into scalable programs. You will be responsible for defining financial quality standards, feasibility, and cost for AI model training initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Run strategic finance pilots and research projects from initial scoping through to operationalization.
• Shape the use of market data, financial statements, filings, and risk models for AI training and evaluation.
• Turn pilots into scalable projects by developing workflows, expert requirements, and quality standards.
• Collaborate with researchers and global delivery teams to ensure project success and data quality.

Required skills

• Finance
• Financial engineering
• Economics
• Accounting
• Project management
• Operational workflows
• Financial data analysis

Nice to have

• AI
• Machine Learning
• Data annotation
• Data pipelines
• Model evaluation
• Human-in-the-loop operations

Qualifications

• Background in finance, financial engineering, economics, or accounting

About the Company

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years, specializing in human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition.