SAP Finance Project Manager

Job Title: SAP IT Finance Project Manager
Work Location: Dallas, TX
Duration: 11 month contract with option to extend
Education/Experience Required: 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 Description &

• Manages one or more cross-functional projects of medium to high complexity from beginning to end.
• Communicates and collaborates well with others in a matrix organizational structure. Ability to learn and adhere to processes to ensure project artifacts and deliverables follow standards.
• Leads assigned IT PMO projects under minimal supervision.
• 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.
• roject manager would use project management skills to work with the team to provide project deliverables, identify project risks, organize workshops and training venues.
• Some projects will be companywide, large projects that require appropriate levels of communication, specifically C-Suite level communication and task coordination to ensure projects are delivered with quality.
• Understand the triple constraints of a project and how to control project scope, cost and schedule.

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 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.

Skills & Qualifications :

• A background showing 8-10 years of experience managing the SAP Finance module software and other large ERP/Oracle/Tagetik systems is highly desired.

Additional Required skills:

• 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.