Finance ERP Project Lead

New York Power Authority; City of White Plains (NY); On-site; USD 128,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Retirement plan

401(k)

Vacation, sick time, holidays

Job summary

The New York Power Authority seeks a Project Manager to lead initiatives supporting the Controller and Accounting business unit, leveraging finance, accounting, and systems expertise to ensure on-time project delivery.

Provisional position up to three years, with benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plans, and vacation time. Travel up to 25% within NY State may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 6 years relevant work experience.
• Associate's Degree with 8 years relevant work experience.
• High School Diploma with 10 years relevant work experience.
• PMP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage the project lifecycle. Effectively schedule and oversee large jobs under tight deadlines.
• Assesses initial project feasibility of new projects and develop project scopes, schedules, deadlines, dependencies, resource requirements, and estimated budget.
• Leverage problem-solving skills to identify key issues/questions at the beginning of a project and develop an appropriate work plan, including project scope, timelines, and specific analyses to be completed, and assign individual responsibilities
• Serves as Project Lead for key Business Unit projects, programs and technology implementations and enhancements. Lead initiatives and engages the right stakeholder groups to reach desired conclusions. Develops metrics, project timelines, budget projections, and employ solid project management tools and processes to ensure the delivery of these projects. This includes the developing and maintaining project tracking tools and metrics to assist in evaluating project status and progress including risk documentation, progress reports, problem logs, and dashboards.
• Develop communications plans, and review communications delivered to the business to ensure they are comprehensive, timely, consistent and cascaded appropriately
• Coordinate work done by project teams. Resolve team disputes. Provide leadership to project teams. Coordinate processes related to assigned projects/programs
• Conduct Needs Analysis for Business Unit processes and execute on those processes as resources and requirements change
• Assists Business Unit Leadership in the development and tracking of budgets as required.
• Demonstrates use of quality Improvement in daily operations.
• May direct the day-to-day assignments of contingent/contract workers or serve as a team lead.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical thinking

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree with 6 years relevant work experience

Associate's Degree with 8 years relevant work experience

High School Diploma with 10 years relevant work experience

PMP certification

Job description

The New York Power Authority seeks a Project Manager to lead initiatives supporting the Controller and Accounting business unit, leveraging finance, accounting, and systems expertise to ensure on-time project delivery.

Provisional position up to three years, with benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plans, and vacation time. Travel up to 25% within NY State may be required.