Airswift · 20 hours ago
IT Finance Project Manager
Dallas, TX
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expAirswift is looking for an IT Finance Project Manager to support a major client in Dallas, TX on a 12-month contract. The role involves managing cross-functional projects, implementing best in-class applications, and ensuring project deliverables meet quality standards while maintaining effective communication with stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
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. Will utilize skills to forecast financials of project to effectively communicate any variance to sponsor and required management
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—all this with the proper sense of urgency that the problem requires
Conduct weekly status reviews with project team and works with project team to obtain updates for weekly status reporting and PowerPoint presentations to include updates on timeline, health of project indicators, accomplishments, and planned items coming-up
Maintain project governance with regular status meetings and reports, stand-ups and/or review sessions to keep team organized and moving forward to successful project closure
Screens projects for risks, actions, issues, decisions, financial viability, and opportunities for sustainable improvement. Understands the end to end impact along with cross functional impact. Formulates and implements solutions
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 that may need to occur on project
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
Qualification
Required
8-10 years of experience managing the SAP Finance module software and other large ERP/Oracle/Tagetik systems
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
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
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. Works well under pressure, comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments
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
Preferred
Preferred experience using and conducting reporting from qTest and tracking QA and UAT efforts from a large-scale enterprise project
Previous finance experience is required
Energy experience is a plus
Experience in an Information Technology Environment
Master's Degree is a plus
Company
Airswift
Airswift provides recruitment, employer of record and workforce solutions to STEM industries.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Airswift has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2021 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$49.91MKey Investors
Palatine Private Equity
2012-10-05Acquired
2009-09-10Private Equity· $49.91M
Leadership Team
Janette Marx
Chief Executive Officer
Ian Langley
Chairman
Recent News
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