Senior IT Project Manager – Finance Transformation

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.