Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SolomonEdwards is a full-service professional services firm offering financial, operational, and technology consulting. They are seeking a strong Project Manager with Finance Transformation experience to support multiple high-priority Finance transformation workstreams and facilitate collaboration across Finance, Treasury, IT, and Legal.
Responsibilities
- Drive day-to-day execution across multiple Finance transformation workstreams
- Establish and maintain detailed project plans and milestone tracking
- Coordinate approximately three globally distributed cross-functional teams
- Partner with Finance, Treasury, IT, and Legal
- Manage dependencies across interconnected workstreams
- Track risks, issues, actions, and decisions
- Provide regular status updates to Transformation Leads and executive stakeholders
- Ensure milestones and deliverables remain on track
- Support governance and control requirements
- Incorporate change management checkpoints into project planning and execution
- Support workflow and technology implementation activities
- Help identify opportunities for process optimization and automation
- Coordinate testing, simulation, and implementation activities
- Ensure project documentation and processes are maintained
- Work closely with the Finance PMO and assigned PMO buddy to align with established PM practices
Skills
- 7+ years of strong Project or Program Management experience
- Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives
- Finance background or significant experience working within Finance organizations
- Strong project governance, milestone tracking, and execution skills
- Experience working across business and IT teams
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Experience with process optimization, controls, or workflow transformation
- Comfortable operating in an evolving environment where processes are still being built
- Strong organizational skills and ability to bring structure to ambiguous projects
- A strong governance and controls mindset is critical
- Experience with establishing governance structures
- Experience with tracking controls and control requirements
- Experience with monitoring milestones and compliance activities
- Experience with supporting testing and validation
- Experience with identifying gaps and risks
- Experience with creating accountability across multiple teams
- Experience with reporting progress and issues to senior leadership
- Specific debt or covenant experience is a plus, but candidates from other industries may be successful if they have demonstrated strong governance and controls experience
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Sick leave
- 401(k)
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