Technical Project Manager; Finance Data Platforms

Technical Project Manager (Finance Data Platforms)

Milestone Technologies, Inc. provided pay range: $80.00/hr - $88.00/hr
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Pay up to $81/hr. (No PTO and No Paid Holidays)

Seeking a Project Manager, Finance Data Platforms for EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) to be responsible for leading the overall coordination, direction, and management of complex IT projects with focus on data across the organization. The role is responsible for overseeing multiple project teams and ensuring successful delivery of Enterprise Technology services that align with organizational objectives. This role will lead matrixed project teams and 3rd party resources.

EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) is a strategic initiative to replace and consolidate our Budgeting & Financial Planning/Forecasting processes and systems. All the data required to support EPM resides in Finance Data Platform.

• Accountable for overseeing the planning, driving execution and delivery of large‑scale, complex implementation projects
• Demonstrates clear understanding of the program’s vision, objectives, scale and scope of work, expected outcomes, business value and impact, timelines, roadmaps, resource level requirements
• Works independently, receives minimal guidance, and leads through influence
• Responsible to a Project Management Office (PMO) consisting of a matrixed set of resources
• Actively leads project planning and overall strategy, to include resource needs identification
• Collaborates closely with partners across the organization including business partners, other technology partners and delivery managers
• Act as the primary liaison between Finance, Data Engineering, and Technology teams
• Interfaces with key partners and vendors, ensuring they understand both project and project deliverables, meet timing, and cost deadlines, and collaborate with internal project stakeholders to achieve project results
• Co‑ordinates bi‑weekly Data Council meeting, including managing agenda and RAID logs for the Data Council
• Proactively identifies and actively leads in the resolution of issues and conflicts
• Responsible for escalations to leadership and to vendors as appropriate to drive results
• Continually apprises leadership and relevant business stakeholders of status and anything not on track
• Communicates successes supported by metrics/KPIs illustrating the business value of IT solutions
• Manage project budgets and forecasts and consistently works with the leadership and finance teams to control project expenditures against the project operating expense and capital budgets
• Analyzes, measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions, participate in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues, and maintains budget tracking and monitors budget expenditures
• Actively leads in establishing and tracking progress to key performance indicators
• Responsible for evaluating and tracking overall project health and status; producing actionable insights
• Manage weekly project status reporting
• Identifies and ensures Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions (RAID) are logged and actioned; works with project management and execution team to resolve items
• Leads/participates in sourcing and contracting activities
• Ensures clear communication of project scopes, timing, prioritization, budgets, resource needs, and progress on an ongoing basis
• Exemplary communication and presentation skills, both oral and written
• Ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences
• Identifies gaps in the project team’s accountability and ownership of deliverables

• 8 years in a technology leadership role in a corporate environment of a similar size/complexity
• Working knowledge of the integrated systems lifecycle development utilizing different, and sometimes multiple development models (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, etc.)
• Familiarity with data engineering, ETL tools, data integration frameworks, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• EPM Budgeting & Financial Planning…