Sr. Technical Project Manager - Compliance​/Risk and Audit Apps Hybrid

Position: Sr. Technical Project Manager - Compliance / Risk and Audit Apps - (Hybrid)
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GEICO is seeking a very experienced Program Manager with a passion for managing complex programs across multiple departments and teams to join our Finance Technologies (Planning & Controls) team as a Senior Technical Program Manager. You will be integral in driving teams of engineers to implement multiple applications to support the Compliance, Risk, and Audit departments.

As the Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for planning, prioritizing, and leading implementations within the Finance Technology domain. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in applying project management skills, have strong Finance business knowledge to collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders, and awareness of Compliance or Audit business functions and their related technologies.

Position Responsibilities:

* As a Senior Technical Program 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 Senior 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 preferred, with a solid understanding of the functional and technical aspects of Risk/Compliance and Audit applications

* Coordinate project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams

* Leverage your knowledge of Risk/Compliance and Audit functions to support various implementations such as a Legal Rule Repository, Regulatory Change Management, Model Risk Management, and GRC system.

* Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.

* Leverage experience with various ERPs (e.g. People Soft; Oracle EBS; Oracle Cloud; Hyperion; Workday; or SAP) to enhance existing applications or build new ones to support GEICO's Finance organization

* Leverage your deep understanding of Finance, Accounting, Audit, and Compliance to drive solutions to meet business requirements

* Collaborate with product managers, team members, vendors, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

* Represent technology during vendor tool selection process, assist business stakeholders with structured approach to identify a solution that meets their needs and the needs of GEICO

Qualifications:

* Very strong program/project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project delivery at scale

* Deep Finance and Risk domain expertise to be able to partner with Finance/Risk leadership to support system solutions

* Strong understanding of Risk, Compliance, and Audit reporting philosophies; and cross-finance practices to ensure data, integrations, and solutions are well designed

* Have ability to be detailed and deadline oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills

* Strong critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and analytical skills

* Experience or certification in LEAN principles and practices is an asset

* Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail.

* Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document findings, proposals, issues, and status

* Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across Technology and Finance

* Experience in implementing Risk, Compliance, or Audit applications is highly preferred

* Effective leadership qualities, ability to influence without direct management authority

* Experience managing conflict to achieve project goals

* Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment

* Proven ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

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