Project Manager, Finance GPL

Maersk; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company is seeking a Project Manager to support its transformation journey in Finance. The role involves driving financial transformations, managing projects, and engaging with stakeholders to improve processes. Ideal candidates will have strong project management skills, relevant certifications, and experience in multinational environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years’ experience in large, multinational organizations.
• Prince2 practitioner or PMP certification required.
• 3-5 years relevant work experience leading projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive financial transformations and manage project plans.
• Analyze process performance and identify areas of improvement.
• Engage with senior stakeholders and ensure project documentation.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

Job description

Project Manager,Finance GPL to support the Transformation Journey

Location: Philippines

Maersk is an integrated container logistics company that is responsible for moving 20% of global trade every year. With a dedicated team of over 80,000 employees across 130 countries, we are committed to improving life for all while integrating the world.

We're on an industry-defining transformation journey that will change the way the world move s , and we have a key role open in the Finance GPL Organization, as a Project Manager to help drive Transformation within Accounting and Tax.

We Offer

As Project Manager, you will be part of the Project Management team in Finance GPL. The overall Finance GPL team is a team with 50+ team members split across Copenhagen, Pune, Chennai and Manila. The team acts as the process owner within Accounting to Reporting & Tax, and drives the Transformation Initiatives within our scope, while also playing a key role in enterprise-wide initiatives , such as the implementation of SAP 4/SHANA.

You will be at the forefront of transformation in our business, bringing to life the Vision in the most tangible way.

This is a super exciting opportunity within the Finance GPL Organizaion, where you will drive the implementation and the adoption of transformation projects, new processes and improvement initiatives with a defined scope of work, executed within a defined timeframe. Analyze process performance and root causes, identify areas of improvement, define requirements for future solution and support test, implementation and hyper-care of changes/improvements in relevant functional area:

• Independently in a low to medium complexity technical and stakeholder environment,

• As a team member on a larger project with higher complexity technical and stakeholder environment,

• Driving a medium sized project workstream in medium complexity technical and stakeholder environment

• Portfolio manage the Finance GPL Transformation Projects and participate in coordination forums to manage interdependencies.

The Project Management team is, in very close collaboration with the FPO and the Operational Excellence teams, key to facilitating the transformation of the processes within the ATR & TAX domains and related upstream / downstream processes and technology changes. This role requires robust engagement in form of project and change management skills, with strong interpersonal skills to cater cross functional stakeholder discussion and decision driving attitude.

Key responsibilities:

Project Management

• Drive financial transformations relating to organizational initiatives around automation, standardization and quality improvements.

• Has accountability for overall project including project plan, scope, process analysis, process / solution design and build, delivery to the project plan and budget.

• Ensure that the project under his/hers responsibility is based on a solid business case.

• Carries out detailed requirements analysis and sizing of project team.

• Tracks progress against the plan and coordinates project phases and scheduling.

• Ensures documentation for the project and related processes.

• May have leadership responsibility for a project team.

• Accountability for support, implementation and hyper-care of transformation projects.

• With migration projects to the GSC, further builds control processes, tracks SOP compliance and ensures adherence to governance model.

Business Process Performance Improvement

• Supports business improvement initiatives, identifies and reports multiple variables that may drive business improvement.

• Focus on challenging the status quo within the business processes, financial reporting and landscape framework.

• Ensures process performance follow up on defined key performance indicators post implementation.

• Anchors and stabilizes updated or new processes.

Communication and Change Management

• Engages with senior stakeholders within the organization and establishes effective communications and change management them

Drive Standardization, compliance and adherence to controls

• Develop and update Global process landscape & Standard Operating Procedures

• Developing processes to reduce exceptions and bringing continuous standardization in line with industry benchmarks

• Communication with the organization emphasizing the drive for standardization & adherence to set controls. Open two-way communication with organization on any areas requiring further review.

Who we are looking for:

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree finance, business administration, engineering or equivalent combined with a minimum of 5-7 years’ experience from large, global, multinational organizations.

You have strong project management skills, and Prince2 practitioner or PMP certification is required and you have 3-5 years relevant work-experience leading projects.

Furthermore you have:

• M.S. Office skills, including XLS and MS Project skill are preferred

• Customer-facing professionalism

• Proven record in building solid relationships and stakeholder networks

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

• Strong organizational & follow-up skills including attention to detail & ability to multi-task

• The ability to manage change – understand concepts of change management with demonstrated capabilities

• Ability to consistently demonstrate & live cultural dimensions of Simplicity, Focus & Teamwork

• Communication: A strong communicator with a clear and concise presentation style, who can convey, with consistency, in a manner that is readily accessible and understandable to all.

• Influencing: Highly developed influencing skills; must demonstrate the ability to secure buy-in at all levels within the organization.

• Best practice perspective: Well-versed in current best practice information and trends in the external marketplace. Understands the impact and benefits that new practices could bring to the organization and is willing to implement changes.

As a person you are a team player who is also able to work independently and is results/deadline-oriented, analytical and innovative.

If this sounds like you, send us your application no later than X

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