firstPRO is seeking a Project Manager who has experience working with financial systems to be responsible for providing end-to-end project management and leadership for managing complex and high risks projects for our customer, who has a strong foothold in the building products industry. This is a work from home position, but our client prefers someone on EST since they are located out of Hammonton, NJ. Compensation for this position is up to $80/ hour, based on experience.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees projects with the goal of achieving project success in the areas of Scope, Schedule, Budget and realized Benefits
• Identifies project options, develops business cases, and secures required approvals
• Leads requirements gathering and planning process, working closely with key stakeholders
• Defines the appropriate project scope, aligned to corporate strategies
• Identifies and manages critical paths, being mindful of upstream and downstream dependencies
• Ensures coordination with other key initiatives, and addresses and resolves project conflicts
• Develops project plans, key milestone schedules, and cost/benefit analysis
• Manages project financials including budgeting, forecasting, and tracks actuals
• Reviews actuals versus planned budget throughout project lifecycle to identify variances and recommends corrective action
• Tracks and manages the project schedule and its dependencies
• Facilitates PMO level reviews of the project status and health
• Ensures issues and risks are managed, mitigated, and communicated to senior leadership
• Applies change management process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required for our change initiatives
• Understands and manages the scope of small and medium sized projects, considering business requirements, budget, resources, and capabilities
• Works with IT and Business partners to identify and schedule all the work for end-to-end deployment required to fulfill the project requirements
• Ensures project milestones are accomplished and overall committed timelines are met
• Communicates updates on major milestones and keeps all stakeholders informed of progress and issues
• Identifies and manages proposed changes to projects, working with business stakeholders and project managers to ensure appropriate processes and communications are followed

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or IT
• 5+ years of Project management experience
• 3+ years of experience in technical IT role (SQL Development, DBA, Programmer, Application Support, System Administrator)
• Experience managing projects related to finance and accounting applications (ERP, Financial Management, AP, AR)
• Familiarity with a broad range of Technologies (Applications e.g., ERP, Finance& Accounting, Logistics)
• Experience with Concur, Billtrust, or Oracle Financial Management a plus
• Expert knowledge and experience using agile development methodologies to deliver code updates
• PMP certification preferred
• Six Sigma certification and or experience in using the process improvement methodology and improvement tools preferred
• Change management certification preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Experience with either Agile or waterfall project management techniques
• Demonstrated problem solving and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to direct multiple projects in parallel in a highly matrix, fast-paced, multi-site organization experiencing rapid growth
• Ability to map related tasks into a plan and communicate interdependencies with other projects and programs
• Ability to track and coordinate resources and tasks across multiple organizations and/or projects