Financial Program Manager

Role Summary:

• Serves as the end-to-end project lead for large-scale, complex projects that are either standalone projects or part of a broader strategic program.

• Drives benefit achievement by leading project inception, planning, and solution design and build and by measuring key performance indicators and solution adoption.

• Engages other colleagues/resources and assigns appropriate responsibilities to support achievement of project plan(s).

• Independently applies knowledge of advanced methodologies, selecting and applying project management tools to conduct analyses, reporting, and related activities for assigned projects.

• Responsible for project management activities, including contingency/dependency tracking, status reporting, issue/risk identification and tracking, scope management, estimation, and internal/external stakeholder management.

• Provides oversight to workstream/task leads within the project; resolves any escalated project risks, issues, and dependencies.

• Manages the overall scope and timing of the project, ensuring business value is delivered on time and within budget.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees end-to-end project management activities for large-scale, complex projects, with oversight for the full project life cycle. Manages the progress and contributions of workstream leads or subordinate project managers to ensure all activities deliver expected value within committed time frames and budget.

• Establishes the program’s governance (e.g., sponsors, approvers, stakeholders). May participate in the evaluation, selection, and management of external resources or vendors.

• Develops statements of work, stakeholder management plans, guiding principles, project goals, risks, resource allocation, and roles and responsibilities for assigned projects.

• Manages contingencies between multiple workstreams and monitors interdependencies and synergies where required. Builds and synthesizes highly detailed project plans, budgeting and forecasting models, or resource plans.

• Works with all required functions and groups to effectively plan and execute the project(s). Drives all project operational checkpoints.

• Provides transparency in project progress and effectively anticipates and mitigates major risks across the project life cycle. Proactively crafts feasible solutions to combat risks and issues.

• Manages the progress and contributions of workstream leads or subordinate project managers to ensure all activities deliver expected value within committed time frames and budget.

• Ensures project delivery is in conformance with company methodologies and standards; recommends improvements and changes as necessary. Monitors project results/performance for significant deviations, evaluates options, and makes recommendations for corrective actions; implements selected actions.

• Has significant stakeholder management skills and interpretation of diverse and varied information.

• Secures, leads, motivates, and inspires the internal and external resources required to effectively deliver the project.

Qualifications/Experience:

Required:

Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience and 5+ years of total relevant work experience