Project Manager (Finance)

The Finance team’s goal is to be a trusted and collaborative partner to all the businesses and functional teams that we work with, bringing business acumen, financial expertise and insights to aid decision-making and deliver value to our stakeholders. We strive to generate value through providing specialist advice and making recommendations to optimize decision making, delivering transparent processes and implementing governance and controls to mitigate risk.

Let’s talk about the team:

In this role reporting to the Senior Manager - Finance PMO, you will help manage key Finance projects and play a critical supporting role in finance. Project management responsibilities include the coordination of all aspects of projects: developing work plans, tracking task status, RAID log and summarizing progress of projects. You will participate in large transformational initiatives including a global cloud ERP implementation. You will also prepare and update portfolio, program, and project dashboards to keep all informed and updated.

You will support project management practices to drive effective, efficient, high-quality delivery that consistently meets or exceeds the expectations of the business. This visible position requires relationship management and collaboration at all levels of the organization, working with global teams across functions. The successful candidate must be able to understand and articulate the business objectives driving initiatives to ensure strategic alignment and successful execution. Excellent communication skills with strong experience in supporting business-side activities for complex global ERP projects is essential. This is a business focused role – the individual will not be leading a technical team but will focus on supporting the accountability of business team tasks.

This is hybrid remote / onsite role with the expectation to balance being in the Didcot office to collaborate with team members. Occasional travel to other domestic and international offices may also be required. Additionally, this role will require flexibility to meet with global teams in different time-zones on a regular basis.

Let's talk about the role:

• The primary objective is to perform project support and completion using an internal customer perspective, typically from initiation through delivery.
• Coordinate and support cross-functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget.
• Support team members and establish healthy, collaborative relationships.
• Maintain enthusiasm, energy and focus on a variety of circumstances.
• Support and participates in development of the project plans for the workstream including stakeholder engagement, communications, change impacts and training
• Support and participates in development of the implementation plan for the workstream including all actions from each workstream capability to develop the function approach and plan for Implementation.
• Contributes to and reviews key workstream deliverables
• Advises the workstream leads and other leaders within the workstream on project implementation priorities.
• Participates in all project management meetings and adheres to governance and disciplines of approved processes for the Finance PMO.
• Facilitate and document lessons learned and best practice with other Functional Change Leads
• Assists with Change Management planning and activities
• Assists in developing the training plan and approach
Supports and contributes to the on-going maturity of project management disciplines which support the collaboration, visibility and transparency for cross functional ResMed programs/projects.

Let’s talk about you:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 3 years of related experience.
• Experience in managing finance domain projects.
• Basic knowledge of business process analysis methodology and tools
• Experience supporting projects from idea phase through to implementation. Develop project plans / schedules and track the completion of milestones, particularly for business-focused activates. Identify critical path, surface roadblocks, and find creative solutions to resolve issues.

Preferred:

• Experience implementing processes and systems within Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Record to Report domains.
• Experience supporting Finance system and/or ERP project implementations.
• Familiarity with Smartsheet for Project Management.
• Project Management Certification such as CAPM or PMP.
• Experience as a Project Manager in a Shared Services setting.
• Experience supporting the management of risks and anticipate potential issues that pose a threat to achieving project goals; propose plans to resolve issues and execute corrective actions.
• Has developed working knowledge in a variety of work processes or activities.
• Anticipates patterns and analyzes problems, looks beyond the immediate problem to the wider implications.
• Cultivate strong stakeholder relationships and maintain effective communication channels. Required Ensure all stakeholders are aware of project decisions and status.
• Supports the program alignment with other company initiatives and manage cross-project dependencies.
• Supports and manages through others; successfully influence cross-functional team members to achieve project goals.
• Proven ability to support and partner with integrated teams from various internal and external organizations across geographies.
• Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.
• Strong understanding of Agile PM practices
• Working knowledge of business process analysis methodology and tools

Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place. It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.