Manager II Finance Transformation

Location: Oak Park Heights

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R-2757
** ANDERSEN CORPORATION

SUMMARY:

** At Andersen, we see possibility everywhere, every day and in everything we do. The possibility for our employees to achieve their full potential, for our communities to be stronger and for everyone to have a healthier, happier place to live.

Our portfolio of brands — Andersen Windows & Doors, Renewal by Andersen and Fenetres MQ — is crafted to serve customers across the new residential, home improvement and light commercial building sector.

Join our more than 13,000 employees who are inspired every day to deliver exceptional experiences that turn possibility into reality.
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* Job Description:

** SUMMARY   Leads Intermediate to complex impact projects across multiple departments or business units; frequently leading more than one project at a time. This role is responsible for strategic planning, execution, and delivery of projects that align with organizational goals. This experienced leader mentors junior project managers, manages stakeholder relationships at many levels, and ensures consistent application of project management best practices.

This leader supports major areas of Finance by providing leadership, counsel, and guidance for intermediate to complex initiatives through ideation, detail design, development, testing, implementation, and stabilization. Initiatives may contain known, visible risk, high senior leader visibility, cross-functional or functional projects which cross business processes and/or business divisions. Responsible for ensuring finance capabilities and systems delivered meet aligned enterprise finance, compliance and architecture standards, leverage best practices and are implemented within a system of strong internal controls and according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES   Lead the planning and execution of divisional, functional or high-priority projects impacting Finance. Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in alignment with business objectives. Develop comprehensive project plans, including timelines, budgets, and resource allocations. Manage functional or cross-functional teams and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders. Identify and mitigate risks, resolve issues, and manage changes to project scope and schedule.

Provide regular updates to senior leadership and stakeholders. Ensure adherence to project management methodologies, standard tools, and templates. Creates and maintains (where applicable). Seeks and responds to feedback in a mature professional manner. Conducts post-project evaluations and implement lessons learned. Drive process improvements and contribute to strategic planning initiatives. Accountable for the successful implementation of the outcomes derived through organizational change management, business case and benefits management, stakeholder management, risk management and issue resolution.  

Coach and mentors project subject matter experts / designers and team members in a timely, professional manner. Holding them accountable to delivering project milestones on-time and in a quality manner. Performance concerns must be handled according to Company policy and should include employees’ direct line operational management.  Manages the relationship with business process owners, operational experts, project sponsor(s) and key stakeholders, in a mature, unemotional manner, to ensure collaboration, common agreement / alignment of scope, timeline, deliverables and trade-offs from project ideation through closure.

Lead the resolution of escalated issues, timely and appropriately.  Participate in the development of a strategic vision for Finance independently or as part of the enterprise Strategic Planning efforts. Includes but is not limited to capability mapping, assessments of all capabilities in the areas of efficiency and effectiveness, smart / intelligent automation and complexity / simplification. Strategic thinking beyond one’s subject matter expertise, with the…