Lead Finance Project Manager

ALSTOM Gruppe; Saguenay; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in transport offers a full-time hybrid position for a Lead Finance Project Manager in Saguenay, QC. This role focuses on financial management across projects, providing business advice, and ensuring compliance. Candidates should have a strong educational background in finance or accounting, project management skills, and proficiency in financial tools. Join us to shape smarter mobility solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive relevant project experience with long and complex project control.
• Excellent knowledge in financial planning tools.
• Ability to manage several priorities concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Lead finances for project and provide financial analysis.
• Act as a business partner, ensuring compliance with local regulations.
• Supervise another Finance Project Manager assigned to the project.

Skills

Communication

Planning

Project Performance

Team player

Education

Bachelors Degree in Business Administration in Accounting or finance

CPA certification

Tools

MS Excel

SAP

Job description

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Lead Finance Project Manager

Company: Alstom

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Could you be the full-time hybrid Lead Finance Project Manager in Saint-Bruno, QC, CA we’re looking for?

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your comprehensive financial management expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside dedicated, collaborative, and innovative teammates. As a Lead Finance Project Manager, you will lead finances for projects, provide financial analysis and advice to support the project team in making the best business decisions. You will be the main partner for the Financial Strategy success of the project, contributing in negotiation processes to secure project success and supporting management team in risks and opportunities. You will also sign-off on contingencies and committed savings. You will also be supervising another FPM also assigned to the same project.

We’ll look to you for:

• Acting as a business partner to provide finance advice, guidance and tutoring to the core project team
• Escalating risks and opportunities to increase management attention
• Forecasting, challenging and approving Project Financial KPIs such as cash, sales and margin
• Controlling the project gross margin through detailedreviews
• Communicating with project stakeholders to provide reliable business cases to assist in the decision-making
• Ensuring Compliance with local regulations, especially for tax and statutory accounts purposes
• In this role, you will continuously add value by interpreting and implementing the global financial strategy set at tender stage.
• Ultimately, your success will be determined by your ability to build trust from the business with accurate forecast reporting and project controlling, which will lead to involvement in projects with increasing scope and visibility.

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration inAccounting or finance
• Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
• CPA certification is an asset
• Extensive relevant project experience, including long and complex project control
• Planning, project performance, project accounting and internal control experience
• Team player with excellent oral and written communication skills in English and French
• Excellent knowledge in MS Excel, knowledge of SAPand/or financial planning tools
• Can easily manage several priorities at the same time

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.