Tech Army Hiring for College Finance Project Manager Job at Atlanta, GA Full Time

Job description

Focus:

You will be responsible for the planning, coordination and status reporting of projects from initiation to delivery. Responsible for handling project costs, resources, change requests, risks and issues to ensure that maximum business benefits are maintained. Provides regular project status updates.

Organizational Context:

Individual contributor working with a team responsible for finance related projects.

Role

• Develops project plans and ensures that the scope and approach are fully understood by all partners
• Identifies and tracks key project achievements
• Ensures all systems of record for project reporting are kept current, and directs and monitors work efforts on a regular basis
• Ensures accurate reflection of project budgets, forecasts and actuals within project and program management tools
• Monitors and communicates progress of project delivery by cost, forecast, schedule and assessment of risks/issues
• Ensures effective change control procedures and processes are efficiently used to retain control on scope, schedule and cost
• Follows project management best practices as defined by PMI.

Range of Impact/Influence

• Deliver projects that result in functional change to a single business product/service or provide support to medium to at scale projects that deliver significant change to multiple applications for single business products/services.
• Collaborate and build cross-functional teams in a weak-matrix environment.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field required
• Prior relevant financial and business work experience
• PMP, or similar certification, Preferred

High Performance Behaviors:

• Ability to handle project resources and achievement timelines
• Ability to control budget, costs, and financial variances
• Ability to control changes is scope
• Ability to track and mitigate project risks and issues
• Ability to ensure project meets compliance and regulatory obligations
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations
• Ability to report and present project statuses

Knowledge/Skills:

• Requires financial acuity in terms of representing project financials using internal tools. May have business experience in a functional domain

Role/Strengths:

• Portfolio, Program, and Project Support
• Project Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Decision Making Influence
• Relationship Management
• Planning & Organizing
• Problem Solving
• Experience with Managing Projects within Finance and Accounting

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $1.00 – $2.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Remote