Finance Project Manager

US Tech Solutions - Cambridge, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Cambridge, MA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Finance Project Manager will lead and manage finance-related projects from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with the organization's financial strategy and objectives. This role involves coordinating resources, analyzing financial data, and communicating progress to stakeholders, while also supporting integration and transition activities related to various financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Plan, initiate, and execute financial projects, ensuring timely completion within budget.
• Develop detailed project plans, set milestones, allocate resources, and monitor project progress.
• Identify risks and implement risk management strategies to minimize project disruptions.
• Lead project teams, fostering collaboration between finance, operations, IT, and other departments.
• Analyze financial data to guide decision-making for projects.
• Create and monitor budgets, ensuring project costs align with approved budgets.
• Track and report financial performance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, including executives and external partners.
• Communicate project status, including progress, risks, and financial implications, to key stakeholders.
• Facilitate meetings and discussions to ensure alignment on project goals.
• Identify opportunities to streamline financial processes and systems through the implementation of new projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and optimize financial workflows.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and company policies during project execution.
• Lead change management initiatives related to financial projects, ensuring successful adoption of new systems, processes, or structures.
• Support execution of Integration and Transition projects, including finance, tax, and IT initiatives.
• Work closely with project leaders to ensure accurate and timely delivery of project objectives.
• Enforce a productive project environment by utilizing standard project methodology, tools and processes.
• Support project leaders and project team in creating and updating project materials in Word, PPT and Excel format.
• Track project progress against objectives, milestones and timelines and raise potential red flags to project leader as appropriate.
• Track project budget, expenses and resources against estimates and commitment and raise potential red flags to project leaders as appropriate.
• Support project leaders in preparation and presentation of progress reports to the appropriate internal project governance bodies, stakeholders, and senior management.
• Lead activity tracker update and monitor weekly tracker update, sending reminders to team members.
• Ensure information consistency by reviewing key information to ensure coherence of communicated timelines.
• Generate Summary Tables from Excel tracker files and insert them into the general reporting PowerPoint template.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or MBA preferred.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of previous work experience in Finance Systems/SAP Projects.
• Previous PMO experience & knowledge of healthcare environment is ideal.
• Experience training teams either directly or through execution of project or matrix.
• Has introduced project and process maturity into organizations that are growing and entrepreneurial.
• Worked within a global stakeholder environment.
• Preferably introduced operational process for service management (e.g., ITSM or equivalent operational management experience).
• Proven ability to scope, develop, and manage projects.
• Ability to interface with technical and scientific internal user groups.
• Interpersonal and facilitation skills necessary to drive alignment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Facilitation skills to develop solutions to address critical business needs.
• High proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and collaborative working tools (ideally Teams/Sharepoint).

Nice-to-haves

• SAP, Systems background is a plus.