Senior Project Manager – Finance Transformation

What you’ll do

• Manage project scope, timeline, resources, and budget to achieve specified outcomes.
• Develop detailed project plans with dependencies, responsibilities, and schedules to guide finance transformation initiatives.
• Oversee budget management, ensuring projects remain within financial and time constraints; flag potential deviations in a timely manner for effective decision-making.
• Identify and mitigate risks to ensure timely resolution and successful project execution; escalate risks appropriately when support is required.
• Coordinate finance resources, cross-functional teams, and materials across multiple sites to deliver project requirements.
• Execute process mapping workshops with project teams and SMEs to document and optimize processes and workflows, including current state, pain points, solution options, timelines, and cost.
• Track meaningful KPIs and escalate where performance is not as expected; use KPIs to identify processes needing transformation and to assess solution effectiveness.
• Manage stakeholders to ensure alignment and engagement throughout project lifecycles; support change management, communication, engagement, rollout, and training plans.
• Support development of business cases for stage-gate requests with clear and concise problem statements.
• Prepare and present project status reports/updates to stakeholders and steering groups; ensure all documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Minimum education and experience requirements

• Bachelor’s degree attained in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or other related field with a minimum of 10 years professional experience with 5 years of experience in project management or operational excellence role, with a strong preference for experience in finance-focused projects
• Or if a Masters attained - A minimum of 5 years professional experience with 3 years of experience in project management or operational excellence role, with a strong preference for experience in finance-focused projects
• A master’s degree or professional certification (e.g., PMP) is preferred
• Proven experience in Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement methodologies
• Demonstrated proficiency in Lean, Six Sigma or Agile methodologies and demonstrated ability to manage the successful delivery of projects
• Experience in a similar role within a manufacturing industry in large, global organization is desired
• Experience with ERP systems and familiarity with finance and accounting software

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

• Thoroughness: articulate business cases and measurable improvements; manage cost, scope, resources, risk, and timelines with accuracy; ensure data integrity and completion of all tasks; recognize cross-disciplinary interrelationships.
• Rational persuasion: use logic and cost-benefit arguments; present fact-based cases; reference source data; adapt style to different stakeholders.
• Concern for impact: communicate to influence and negotiate at all levels; anticipate impacts and adjust actions; maintain others’ self-esteem during difficult conversations.
• Efficiency orientation: map processes, identify pain points, and propose solutions; streamline methods and eliminate redundancies; coordinate activities and proactively avoid overruns.
• Concern for standards: define consequences of not meeting standards; drive consistency and excellence; ensure procedures/systems are applied consistently.

This role has a high-impact seat at the table. Your work will directly enable scalable growth, operational efficiency, and financial performance. You will collaborate across Finance, IT, Operations, and multiple sites to deliver change that lasts.