Senior Technical Program Manager - Workday Financial Management; REMOTE

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GEICO is seeking an experienced Sr. Technical Program Manager from the financial services industry with a passion for working on complex Finance Technology programs across multiple departments and teams. You will be the key to driving teams of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide products. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a Tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

This Sr. Technical Program Manager is a key member of the Financial Technology organization working across the organization planning, prioritizing, and leading implementations within the Finance Technology domain. You will collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders at different levels to ensure timely delivery of impactful projects. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in applying project management skills for implementing Workday Financials and Spend Management with extensive knowledge of cooperate finance in the Financial Services Industry domain.

Experience in the Insurance Industry a plus.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Technical Project Manager within the Finance Technologies area, you will:

• Partner with the project sponsor, delivery team, and stakeholders to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget
• Create, maintain, and actively manage a detailed project schedule, change control process, and documentation
• Work with your Sr. Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
• Leverage your knowledge of operational and LEAN practices/principles to streamline organizational and team processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness
• Prior Financial Services Industry experience is required, with a solid understanding of the functional and technical aspects of ERP applications
• Coordinate project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams
• Leverage your knowledge of Finance systems to drive towards the right solution to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
• Leverage experience with various ERPs (e.g. Workday, People Soft; Oracle Fusion Cloud; Hyperion; or SAP) to enhance existing applications or build new ones to support GEICO’s Finance organization
• Leverage your deep understanding of Finance, Accounting, and Management Reporting to drive solutions to meet business requirements
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Work with your leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• Report on progress of the program/project and other key metrics to align leadership and staff
• Present detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
• Perform process engineering through the review, refinement and improvement of existing processes and manage the improvements to completion without jeopardizing tactical delivery
• Consistently share best…