What is the role and company?
Join a large Irish MNC in their finance systems team. This role requires a Senior Project Manager to spearhead a transformative, long-term Oracle EPM Cloud programme. With an increasing workload and upcoming additional roll outs of new functionality and regional scope, this role is a new function which has just been released.
What will I be doing?
- Identify and manage project dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and clearly track and communicate implications on the critical path.
- Conduct project lessons learned and create a recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Estimate necessary resources and participants to achieve project objectives.
- Engage with project stakeholders on a continuous basis.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
- Communicate project expectations, progress reports, status updates, and RAID logs to team members and stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.
- Direct the planning, scoping, and execution of the Oracle EPM Cloud project across all EPM modules.
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks, and develop contingency plans where necessary.
- Establish and uphold governance structures to monitor project progress and manage escalations effectively.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans detailing phases, dependencies, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and resource allocation.
- Set and consistently manage project expectations with team members, stakeholders, business owners, sponsors, and senior management.
- Lead, inspire, and develop team members and colleagues to cultivate a high-performance culture.
- Create a collaborative and positive change environment, garnering support and buy-in from all stakeholders.
- Exemplify exemplary leadership qualities within the Finance team and the broader organization, bringing vision, credibility, and accountability to the role.
- Establish highly effective program governance and communication structures with relevant stakeholders.
- Foster close working relationships with senior finance management across all divisions.
What experience and skills do I require?
- Extensive knowledge of Finance technology solutions and implementation experience.
- Project management qualifications are an advantage; PMI, PMP or related.
- Experience as a functional/technical consultant in Oracle EPM Cloud modules is a plus.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to identify key issues and communicate them effectively and succinctly to all audiences up to, and including, the CFO.
- Proven experience in managing large-scale, multi-year finance transformation projects with Oracle EPM modules (FCCS, TRCS, ARCS, Planning, Narrative Reporting, and EDM).
- Solid experience in managing teams and building consensus/collaborative delivery of goals.
- Strong process, technical, and analytical skills, coupled with commercial acumen.
- Exceptional analytical and coordination skills, taking accountability for ideas from inception to delivery in an environment requiring robust metrics to confirm success.
- A strategic thinker with the ability to set objectives and priorities.
How do I apply?
For more information on this opportunity, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Geoff Coleman from SystemsAccountants via email: Geoff@systemsaccountants.com.
Who we are?
SystemsAccountants is a leading global Financial Systems, Analytics, and Transformation recruitment company. We provide permanent & contractor recruitment solutions to enable clients to implement, support, develop, run & optimise, ERP, ERP and Analytics systems as well as finance transformation programmes including ESG topics. We source and screen finance systems professionals on a global basis. Unlike typical search & selection firms, our consultants have an international reach, which ensures that our clients and candidates receive market insight along with a tailored service.
