IT Finance Project Manager Job at Airswift Sweden (Dallas)

Job Description

Airswift is looking for an IT Finance Project Manager to support a major client in Dallas, TX on a 12-month contract. Manages one or more cross-functional projects of medium to high complexity from beginning to end. The PMO IT Finance Project Manager will work with project team to implement best in-class applications and enhancements. Responsible for organizing and facilitating status update, PowerPoint presentations, project schedule using MS Project, financial reporting and risk management. A background showing 8-10 years of experience managing the SAP Finance module software and other large ERP/Oracle/Tagetik systems is highly desired.

Job Responsibility

Ultimately responsible for partnering with the business partner to uphold the project scope and objectives
Responsible for using Project Management best practice to guide a project with the stakeholders and/or business
Deliver projects on budget with desired outcomes
Able to articulate problems, bring the right people together to solve problems of the project and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed
Conduct weekly status reviews with project team and works with project team to obtain updates for weekly status reporting and PowerPoint presentations
Maintain project governance with regular status meetings and reports, stand-ups and/or review sessions
Screens projects for risks, actions, issues, decisions, financial viability, and opportunities for sustainable improvement
Project may involve working with multiple vendors and making sure vendor PM aligns to company deliverables, SOW, invoicing, and timeline
Works with Financial Analyst to performs validation on financial-related reporting and liaises with project leadership about budget, forecast, accruals and reclassifications
With input from project leadership updates project forecast, submits accruals and reclassifications to maintain project financial standards
Monitors project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility with delivery lead
Develop a detailed project plan/schedule to track progress
Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
Perform risk management to minimize project risks
Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
Create, maintain, and store project documentation and records
Responsible for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project management practices with project team

Requirements

Managing a multi-million-dollar projects, multi-disciplinary team across functional workstreams
Proven experience managing implementation projects with task/work responsibility shared across multiple system integrators, vendors, and big 5 consulting companies
Proven experience leading Financial transformation projects, Tagetik, Enterprise Software releases, SAP ERP implementation projects, and/or business process re-engineering projects
Preferred experience using and conducting reporting from qTest and tracking QA and UAT efforts from a large-scale enterprise project
Understand SDLC and proper project management, ability to work in an agile-like environment
Excellent communicator that understands frequent, consistent communication helps keep teams aligned and progressing forward with project
Encourages and supports escalations: communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential escalation issues
Serves as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project
Engages in building consensus, developing contingency planning and providing recommend solutions
Lead project teams in strategic meetings and follow up with meeting minutes
Understands Software Development Lifecycle
Excellent organization skills
Ability to follow company’s Governance and utilize required formatting of PowerPoint presentations as required
Excellent concise writing and communication skills
Cool, calm, collected and collaborative
Develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals
Intermediate to Advanced skills with Microsoft Project
Ability to identify and document issues, risks and problems
Bachelor’s Degree
Microsoft project skills
Proficient at creating multiple PowerPoint decks weekly for C-Class Executives
Self-motivated, works with appropriate urgency, friendly and assertive
Extremely detailed oriented and organized

Nice to have

Previous finance experience is required
Energy experience is a plus
Experience in an Information Technology Environment
Master’s Degree is a plus

Airswift Sweden - All Job Offers

Select Country

IT Finance Project Manager

Job Description

Job Responsibility

Requirements

Nice to have

Looking for more opportunities?

IT Finance Project Manager

Finance IT Project Manager

Senior Manager-project manager - finance transformation - vois

Finance Manager or Senior Finance Manager

Project Manager Finance Transformation

Finance Project Manager

Finance Project Manager

Finance Project Manager

Senior Manager, Project Finance

Our AI answers in your language