Senior Finance Transformation Programs Lead

ViziRecruiter,LLC.; Quincy (MA); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Ahold Delhaize USA seeks a seasoned Program Leader for large, complex, high‑risk initiatives within Finance. You will ensure delivery within scope, time and budget, and drive the expected business and financial returns across multiple workstreams.

You will partner with Senior Leadership to shape project management practice, mentor Project Managers, participate in governance, and help hire and develop bench strength across geographies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years across finance, business analysis, transformation & project management.
• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience.
• Experience facilitating and driving meetings.
• Experience on Project / Solution Life Cycles.
• Experience with delivering finance programs and requirements.
• Experience working with cross functional teams across multiple geographies.
• Business and financial acumen.
• Facilitation Skills.
• Project management experience (PMP Certification preferred).
• Knowledge and experience of financial systems, SAP a plus.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and customer service skills.
• 10+ years' progressive program management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic direction and oversight to a team of subject matter experts that deliver high impact programs that support the business; decisions directly impact the strategic planning and direction of programs managed; poor decisions impact overall financial and business unit results, can cause additional expenditure of resources, and can risk the successful completion of projects
• Represents the Finance organization on large scale projects, owned or in support of ADUSA Finance
• Leads objectives across multiple projects and functions
• Responsible for the process of establishing baseline project objectives, scope, schedule, budget and resources
• Engages with Sr Leadership to apprise of program status and goals
• Works with the business partners and leads to ensure alignment to the scope of the project / program and overarching ADUSA strategy
• Acts objectively, challenging, when necessary, to provide transparency to project stakeholders
• Understands impacts of change and decisions beyond the immediate results
• Has experience in a number of business units or functions in order to be able to critically think through the key intersection points on a cross functional end to end process basis
• Engages with Project Champions, Executive Sponsors and project teams to establish baseline project objectives, scope, schedule, budget and resources.
• Provides guidance, mentorship, and leadership to an assigned team of Project Managers in methodology execution, deliverable preparation, and stakeholder alignment to project objectives.
• Participates in the development of the project charter, obtains stakeholder approval, and manages scope changes over the duration of the project
• Facilitates development of the project Governance, working with the Finance teams to develop, obtain stakeholder approval, and ensure information remains current and teams are held accountable
• Develops and maintains project plans for each project/program at the proper level of detail to adequately track and report on progress
• Provide project teams with agendas and meeting minutes
• Develops and maintains actions/issue/risk logs for each initiative to appropriately track project/program actions, issues, and risk to resolution/mitigation
• Develops consolidated, standard, and accurate initiative status reporting, as per the defined schedule, that provides transparency to the project/program progress and any issues or risks that could have a negative impact
• Manage and maintain all project documents within the project website

Skills

Finance domain knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic program leadership

Communication skills

Facilitation

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

SAP

Project management tools

Job description

Ahold Delhaize USA seeks a seasoned Program Leader for large, complex, high‑risk initiatives within Finance. You will ensure delivery within scope, time and budget, and drive the expected business and financial returns across multiple workstreams.

You will partner with Senior Leadership to shape project management practice, mentor Project Managers, participate in governance, and help hire and develop bench strength across geographies.