IT Program Manager III

Job#: 3034673

Job Description:
IT Program Manager III

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (On-site)
Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

The IT Program Manager, acting as a Delivery Lead for Financial Operations, is responsible for ensuring accurate, transparent, and proactive financial stewardship across the portfolio. This role provides focused ownership of funding management, CIO allocations, and multiple license chargeback models for the portfolio suite of products. The position involves hands-on management of allocations, quarterly software capitalization cycles, and participation in corporate forecasting routines to ensure financial activities are executed with precision.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end financial operations including funding oversight, CIO allocations, and license chargeback models.
• Maintain accurate forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and financial tracking to support strategic planning.
• Lead quarterly Software Capitalization cycles, ensuring timely data collection, validation, and submission.
• Coordinate forecast cycles by preparing updates, reconciling changes, and ensuring alignment with portfolio priorities.
• Provide timely financial reporting and insights to leadership covering spend, value realization, trends, and financial risks.
• Partner with internal teams to ensure compliance with financial controls, accounting policies, and audit requirements.
• Maintain and improve financial tooling, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms for real-time visibility.
• Promote automation to streamline financial workflows and reduce manual effort.
• Maintain compliance with enterprise financial, security, and audit standards.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• 7 or more years leading multi-team delivery in product, platform, or enterprise environments.
• Experience in roles such as Program Manager, Project Manager, or Delivery Lead.
• Demonstrated success with intake governance, dependency management, and risk management (RAID).
• Experience navigating enterprise change, security, and compliance processes.

Skills:

• Familiarity with Agile delivery practices and AI-accelerated workflows.
• Proficiency with delivery planning, documentation, and workflow tools.
• Program Leadership and Cross-Team Coordination.
• Financial and Business Acumen.
• Problem Solving and Systems Thinking.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with platform rollouts, modernization initiatives, or technical migrations.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, security scanning, or release automation concepts.
• Experience with delivery metrics and value stream or flow-oriented practices.
• Familiarity with operational readiness, SLOs, and support models.
• Financial fluency in budgeting and forecasting.
• Experience using AI tools for story refinement, documentation, or delivery automation.

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.