Financial Transition Project Manager
The principal deliverable is the successful delivery of regional transitions – delivery of this is through managing and overseeing transitions to external service provider centers, including contributing to the design and implementation of a robust and efficient retained organization. The role is a combination of overseeing/directing and hands on delivery.
Key Holder accountability
- Establish and maintain close links to the Project team, in particular the Programme Management Advisory team and ensure that they act in a consistent manner with the overall objectives of the wide programme.
- Establish, lead and provide operational day-to-day direction to the Regional Transition team to ensure successful and on time transitions.
- Work with the Regional CFO, Management and Transition team, and Global Programme team to define transition plans, methodology and resourcing needs.
- Deliver a successful knowledge transfer transition to the service provider
- Establish and manage at the regional level the interface to the service provider transition team
- Ensure a robust transition governance framework, including stakeholder-reporting mechanisms, are established and lead the operation thereof.
- Be the key interface in ensuring effective management of the transition relationship between Finance business functions.
- Be the key interface in ensuring effective management of the regional transition relationship between Agency Finance our Service Provider.
- Oversee the relationship with the IS lead on regional transitional implementations
- Provide guidance to and consult with the HR, Change and Communications teams on transitional implementation matters
- Establish clear roles and responsibilities, and ways of working with regional management
- Establish a good network to other regional transition teams to ensure optimal best practice sharing
Major Responsibilities
- Successful regional transition through partnership, discipline, risk planning and a proven process
- Establish, coach and lead, the Regional transition team and other Programme resources (HR, Comms, IT Finance etc..) to ensure smooth, on-time and to quality transitions.
- Work closely with the Service Provider Transition team to ensure transitions run to plan and time.
- Ensure the transition methodology is appropriate, to deliver successful transitions, including compliance with contractual obligations
- Responsible for transition milestone sign-offs
- Lead and own standard project management discipline related to regional transition e.g. planning, reporting, risk management, best practice reviews, cost management and stakeholder analysis and management
- Develop and maintain regional risk and issue registers throughout the transitions, managing escalations as required.
- Provide monthly (or as required) updates to Program Steering Committee on progress of transitions.
- Interact with the Program Management Advisory team and PMO.
- Play a lead role (as will be defined in the contract) in the Transition and Programme governance structure
Ideal Candidate Requirements:
- Experience of implementing and leading transitions into a Finance Accounting SSC
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Extensive organizational transformation experience
- Significant work experience in Finance related activities
- Energetic and self-motivated
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Oral and written fluency in Business English
- Ability to use a range of influencing techniques and awareness of cultural differences
- Experience of global technology implementations (Ariba, ERP, TE)
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects/tasks effectively
- Proven experience of change management
- Demonstrated success working in a team environment demonstrated success building cross-functional global networks and stakeholder management
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Experience of implementing significant business change across different State and business boundaries
- Ideal candidates will have specific industry and process experience including benchmarking
February 11, 2011
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