Business Unit:
Compliance, Risk and Internal Audit
Salary Range:
$175,000 USD - $200,000 USD
Specific compensation will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, commercial considerations, and other job-related factors permitted by law. At Russell Investments, salary is just one part of our compensation package. Our total rewards approach includes an annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility criteria) in addition to participation in our competitive benefits programs including healthcare, retirement, vacation, and wellbeing programs.
Job Description:
The Director, Global Performance and Reporting is a senior leadership role responsible for leading enterprise-wide performance strategy and client reporting across global markets. Reporting directly to the Chief Risk Officer, this role serves as the global lead for performance and acts as a change agent to elevate, modernize, and better connect performance and reporting to support the business and ultimately our clients.
Operating within a complex, globally matrixed financial services environment, the Director ensures the integrity, transparency, and timeliness of global reporting while aligning performance measurement with corporate strategy, regulatory expectations, and stakeholder requirements. This role will reshape and strengthen cross-functional connectivity, ensuring performance insights are strategic, forward-looking, and aligned to risk appetite and enterprise priorities.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Global Performance Leadership
- Lead and develop a high-performing global team, fostering a dynamic, collaborative, and accountable culture.
- Serve as the global performance lead, driving strategic alignment of KPIs with enterprise objectives and risk frameworks.
- Operate effectively across a globally matrixed organization, influencing stakeholders across regions and business lines.
Strategic Performance & Change Leadership
- Act as a change agent to evolve the performance function beyond BAU reporting toward strategic insight and value creation.
- Lead cross-functional performance initiatives in close partnership with the Investment Division, to strengthen connectivity across Risk, Finance, Operations, and the broader business.
- Redesign performance frameworks, governance, and processes to enhance transparency, accountability, and business impact.
- Partner with Operations to clearly delineate BAU reporting from strategic performance management activities.
Executive & Board Reporting
- Oversee executive and Board-level performance reporting, ensuring clarity, insight, and alignment to risk and strategic priorities.
- Translate complex financial, operational, and risk data into actionable, decision-oriented insights.
- Provide forward-looking analysis to support strategic and risk-based decision-making.
Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure strong governance, controls, and data integrity across global reporting processes.
- Drive automation, analytics enhancement, and reporting transformation initiatives.
- Promote continuous improvement and innovation within the performance function.
Your Expertise:
- 10+ years of progressive experience in financial services, with deep expertise in performance management, reporting, risk, or FP&A.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field required; MBA, CPA, CFA, FRM, or equivalent designation preferred.
- Proven experience leading and developing teams within a globally matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional performance initiatives and driving organizational change.
- Strong understanding of financial services business models, regulatory frameworks, and enterprise risk management.
- Advanced analytical capability with experience in enterprise reporting systems and data visualization tools.
- Recognized as a dynamic leader with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across diverse functions.
Leadership Attributes:
- Results-oriented with the ability to effectively resolve/manage problems and competing priorities
- The ability to build trust with others through commitment to the highest ethical and professional standards
- Demonstrated record of confident leadership, sound judgment, creativity and commitment to achieving excellence
- Inspires others; Skilled at getting individuals and teams to perform at a higher level and to embrace change; negotiates skillfully to achieve a fair outcome or promote a common cause; communicates a compelling vision and is committed to what needs to be done
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, and the ability to successfully multi-task
- Bandwidth, energy and passion to support a global organization across multiple geographies
- Excellence in communication skills and organizational savvy
- An ability to develop strong interpersonal relationships at all levels both within and outside the firm, characterized by mutual respect, openness, and trust
- A self-starter, self motivated, self disciplined, self assured, and performance driven
- Excellent analytical and strategic skills. Good business judgment and problem solving skills
This role is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Russell Investments is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all associates and employment applicants regardless of race, religion, ancestry, creed, color, gender (including gender identity which refers to a person's actual or perceived sex, and includes self-image, appearance, behavior or expression, whether or not different from that traditionally associated with a person's biological sex), age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, medical condition, military status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, past or present unemployment status , or any other characteristic protected by law.
