Title: Senior IT Project Manager – Finance Transformation
Location: Portland, OR - Hybrid role (3 days onsite/week)
Any Visa is fine except CPT, OPT
Exp:14+
We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager – Finance Transformation to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives focused on modernizing financial processes, enterprise applications, reporting platforms, and system integrations.
In this role, you will drive large-scale finance-related technology programs from planning through delivery, partnering closely with business, finance, technology, and vendor teams to support operational excellence and measurable business outcomes. The ideal candidate brings deep IT project management expertise, strong Agile delivery experience, hands-on Azure DevOps knowledge, and the confidence to lead strategic transformation in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Finance Transformation programs, ensuring alignment to business priorities, timelines, budgets, and expected outcomes.
- Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and change controls across complex enterprise initiatives.
- Drive Agile delivery practices across multiple teams, ensuring transparency, accountability, and continuous progress.
- Use Azure DevOps, or ADO, for backlog management, sprint planning, work tracking, reporting, governance, and delivery oversight.
- Partner with business, finance, technology, and vendor stakeholders to coordinate project activities and resolve delivery challenges.
- Facilitate project governance meetings, steering committee updates, executive status reporting, and decision-making forums.
- Support finance business process improvements and digital transformation initiatives that enhance efficiency, control, and scalability.
- Oversee SIT, UAT, deployment planning, cutover readiness, production readiness, and post-implementation support activities.
- Proactively manage stakeholder expectations, adoption plans, communications, and overall project engagement.
- Identify risks and issues early, develop mitigation plans, and ensure timely escalation when needed.
- Help ensure finance technology solutions are delivered with quality, consistency, and measurable business value.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of IT Project Management experience, including delivery of large-scale, cross-functional technology initiatives.
- Mandatory experience delivering projects using Agile methodologies.
- Mandatory hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, ADO, including backlog management, sprint planning, tracking, reporting, and governance.
- Proven experience leading Finance Transformation, Finance Systems, or finance-related enterprise technology projects.
- Strong experience managing budgets, forecasts, financial tracking, and project financial governance.
- Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders across business, finance, technology, vendors, and executive leadership.
- Experience managing enterprise application initiatives, system integrations, reporting platforms, and process modernization projects.
- Strong understanding of risk management, issue management, dependency tracking, and project governance practices.
- Experience overseeing SIT, UAT, deployment, and production readiness activities.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and executive presentation skills.
- Preferred experience with platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Workday Financials, or similar finance systems.
- Preferred experience in financial reporting, General Ledger, AP/AR, budgeting, forecasting, or compliance initiatives.
- PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or similar certification preferred.
