Description
Financial Applications Project Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA 30338 (Dunwoody)
Contract or possible CTH: $55/hr - $60/hr
*Travel Required* 5%-25%
What gets you the job:
- AR/AP or General Ledger experience
- Specifically looking for someone that has a strong financial background .ie payroll, human resources. SAP, Viewpoint, Hyperion and/or any other HRMS and/or ERP application experience is a plus.
- Business Intelligent and/or Data Warehousing background would be a plus as well.
- 5 -7 year of project management experience.
- Experience with Clarity, MS Project Server, Clarizen and/or any other PPM tool.
Must Haves:
- IF THERE ARE ANY TYPO'S ON THE RESUME, THE MANAGER WILL NOT INTERVIEW.
- Strong, large project experience managing the standardization of Back Office applications in Canada to the US systems.
- Will travel anywhere from 5-25% of the time, typically to Canada so must have an active passport.
- Strong experience with Financial systems and preferably HR Applications, such as SAP, Hyperion and/or Viewpoint.
- PMP certification is a plus.
- If not certified, must have a strong grasp of PM methodologies and be able to explain how they've successfully managed projects successfully and on time.
Job Summary:
The PM will lead planning and/or implementation of assigned enterprise IT projects through the full life cycle from project definition and approval through implementation; and all project deliverables in parallel.
Responsibilities:
- Strong, large project experience managing the standardization of Back Office applications in Canada to the US systems.
- Will travel anywhere from 5-25% of the time, typically to Canada so must have an active passport.
- Maintaining exceptional verbal and written communications with stakeholders.
- Manage all project life cycle process groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing.
- Manage all project management knowledge areas: Communication Management, Cost Management, Integration Management, Procurement Management, Quality Management, Human Resource Management, Risk Management, Time Management, Scope Management and Stakeholder Management
- Proactively identify and communicate potential project delays, roadblocks, risks/opportunities, issues, and potential resolutions, ensuring OMG management is presented with options/impacts for decision making prior to experiencing adverse impacts/outcomes.
- Ability to understand team capacity and ensure that project plans are achievable - not just happy pathing project plans but truly understanding team bandwidth and constraints.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans including schedule, communications plan, and applicable project management artifacts required for the work to be successfully completed and delivered.
- Establish and manage the project cost, scope and schedule baselines.
- Work closely with Functional Owners, IT team members, PMO representatives and Finance representatives to monitor and control these attributes.
- Partner with the IT resources, key stake holders and external parties to clearly define the project scope, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and deliverables of the initiative.
- Conduct periodic project progress meetings/stage gate reviews, and go/no go meetings with project team members and key stakeholders.
- Report results and status to senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Represent the project at executive meetings and in group discussions as requested.
- Understand and comply with all Program/Project Governance Policies and Procedures.
Qualifications:
- 5-7 years+ of increasingly responsible project and program management experience, including successfully managing multi-year enterprise software projects.
- Strong experience with Financial systems and preferably HR Applications, such as SAP, Hyperion and/or Viewpoint.
- Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects; understanding and efficiently managing cross-dependencies.
- Strong grasp of IT concepts and methodologies including SDLC, Agile/Scrum.
- Vendor management (on/off-shore) experience is a plus.
- Ability to influence and build coalitions among the various stakeholders; and negotiates authority to move the project forward.
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to present ideas in user-friendly manner.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Track record of successful leadership with project management, business analyst, quality assurance, compliance, and software development staff in an enterprise IT organization.
- Strong understanding and experience in cultivating and applying project change management.
- Has a proven Full time career track record (and can have a mix on impressive contracting engagements)