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Finance Project Manager
Purpose and Scope:
Provide project management support for Shared Services initiatives to include process improvements, KPI’s/metrics reporting, procedure documentation, audit support and critical quality assurance operational reporting. Shared Services currently includes Payroll, Accounts Payable, and Document Management.
Essential Responsibilities:
1) As a direct report to the Vice President of Shared Services, provide project leadership in their area of responsibility.
2) Identify potential project problems or opportunities, analyze the issues using all appropriate resources, develop alternatives, and arrive at the most optimum approach to mitigate problems or exploit opportunities.
3) Leverage Project Management tools to track and report on key project phases and milestones such as Project Initiation, Plan, Schedule, Issues and Critical Decisions.
4) Establish track and report status against key performance indicators or contractual metrics on a routine basis.
6) Demonstrates command of the schedule goals, key milestones, and approach to the work embodied in the schedule.
8) Ensures that a firm scope-based schedule baseline is established and properly resourced.
9) Demonstrates knowledge of the schedule tools, procedures, and work process.
10) Reviews, reports and manages key performance measures defined within the contract. Implements corrective measures when measures are outside service levels or bandwidths.
11) Consistently meets or improves upon the established schedule goals in their area of responsibility.
12) Manages performance and progress against the plan and ensures accurate forecasts with commensurate action plans.
13) Establishes annual operating budgets in cooperation with customer, business manager or group financial department.
14) Provides accurate monthly forecasts of cost, schedule, and resource utilization.
15) Supports or conducts formal presentations to leadership.
Perform all other position related duties as assigned or requested.
Minimum Position Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field, with 7 years’ experience in Accounts Payable or Payroll. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is recommended. Good oral and written communication skills; working knowledge of Microsoft software applications, especially Excel; organizational skills and ability to perform detail-oriented work are required.
Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands:
Typical office environment with no unusual hazards, occasional lifting to 20 pounds, constant sitting while using the computer terminal, constant use of sight abilities while reviewing documents, constant use of speech/hearing abilities for communication, constant mental alertness, must possess planning/organizing skills, and must be able to work under deadlines.
Other Responsibilities:
Safety – Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.
Quality – Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.
Procedure Compliance – Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.
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