Financial Transformation Project Manager

About the job
Role-Specific Responsibilities

Project Management:

Plan and drive projects of significant complexity by independently planning, leading and executing on projects with other cross-functional teams globally

Ensure appropriate sponsorship and align stakeholders around initiative goals

Establish communications cadence to ensure appropriate program governance

Influence decision making & problem solving across projects and teams

Proactively manage program risks and develop mitigation strategies to meet the broader organization goals, milestones and objectives

Ensure appropriate sponsorship and align stakeholders around initiative goals

Develop strong stakeholder relationships, maintaining effective communication channels

Prepare detailed analysis, plans, milestones, deliverables and overall status updates for projects

Proactively manage program risks, trade offs, critically evaluate and anticipate potential issues and implement appropriate mitigation strategies to meet broader organization goals, milestones, and objectives.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or Engineering with experience in Financial Transformation

5+ years of experience in project management, accounting, finance, and system implementation/design.

Experience with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

Proven track record of influencing decision making and problem solving with senior leadership

Experience thinking strategically and manage ambiguity, risk, and changing direction of projects and priorities

Experience working and influencing in a cross-functional global environment and with all levels of employees (entry-level to senior leadership)

Experience designing and implementing business processes and systems based on business priorities

Experience delivering quality communications, including development of key messages

Strong knowledge of financial planning and analysis (FP&A)

Preferred Qualifications:

MBA, CPA or advanced degree in Finance, Business/Economics, or Engineering.

Prosci change management, Six Sigma Black Belt, Design Thinking, Agile/Scrum, and/or PMP certification preferred.

Experience as an FP&A manager

Experience as FP&A consultant, especially with experience planning, designing, providing feedback on product demo, testing, and migrating new 3rd party or in-house built planning and planning adjacent (such as procurement, general ledger, human capital management, and workforce management systems) enterprise systems.

Projects CW will be working supporting FPNA org. (finance team) Projects:

Moving budget tracking to org tool
Data governance (understanding of finance date and hierarchy in reporting)
Standardize usage (train others)
Enhancements to enterprise planning management