Senior Project Manager

Axelon Services Corporation; Urbandale (IA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Axelon Services Corporation seeks a Finance-savvy Project/Program Manager to coordinate multi-location work streams and ensure alignment with strategy. You will lead transitions, manage resources across regions, and keep stakeholders informed at senior levels within Finance.

Hybrid role (Mon-Wed), 18-month contract, focusing on risk, change control, and delivering complex programs. Strong communication, strategic thinking, and executive presence are essential to succeed.

Qualifications

• Finance background with project management experience.
• Experience managing project plans and keeping them on track.
• Ability to interact with local and regional senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading major change initiatives and delivering large projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support work streams within a program to ensure strategy and execution align with the overall vision.
• Accountable for delivering successful transitions and integration, managing resources across geographically dispersed locations.
• Communicate project activities across regions or functions to key management colleagues and team members.
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects and programs.
• Utilize project implementation documentation, including toolkits and migration schedules.
• Facilitate project risks and impacts on business initiatives to management within the organization.
• Design and create strategic documents such as Project Business cases, Assessments, and Communication plans.
• Present project updates and make presentations to senior-level management within Finance.
• Support and lead decision-making processes for progress on assigned programs/projects.
• Follow and adhere to project controls for assigned projects.
• Identify and resolve issues, manage project/program deliverables, and ensure change control processes are aligned.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Communication

Risk management

Education

Finance background

Job description

• Manage and support work streams within a program to ensure strategy and execution align with the overall vision.
• Accountable for delivering successful transitions and integration, managing resources across geographically dispersed locations.
• Communicate project activities across regions or functions to key management colleagues and team members.
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects and programs.
• Utilize project implementation documentation, including toolkits and migration schedules.
• Facilitate project risks and impacts on business initiatives to management within the organization.
• Design and create strategic documents such as Project Business cases, Assessments, and Communication plans.
• Present project updates and make presentations to senior-level management within Finance.
• Support and lead decision-making processes for progress on assigned programs/projects.
• Follow and adhere to project controls for assigned projects.
• Identify and resolve issues, manage project/program deliverables, and ensure change control processes are aligned.

Summary

• Duration: 18 months
• Work Mode: Hybrid (Mon-Wed) Flexible

Responsibilities

• Manage and support work streams within a program to ensure strategy and execution align with the overall vision.
• Accountable for delivering successful transitions and integration, managing resources across geographically dispersed locations.
• Communicate project activities across regions or functions to key management colleagues and team members.
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects and programs.
• Utilize project implementation documentation, including toolkits and migration schedules.
• Facilitate project risks and impacts on business initiatives to management within the organization.
• Design and create strategic documents such as Project Business cases, Assessments, and Communication plans.
• Present project updates and make presentations to senior-level management within Finance.
• Support and lead decision-making processes for progress on assigned programs/projects.
• Follow and adhere to project controls for assigned projects.
• Identify and resolve issues, manage project/program deliverables, and ensure change control processes are aligned.

Requirements

• Finance background with project management experience.
• Experience in managing project plans and ensuring they are on track.
• Capability to interact with local and regional level senior stakeholders.
• Experience in major change initiatives with a proven record of delivering major projects.

Preferred Skills

• Executive presence and comfort in working with top executives.
• Detail-oriented and adaptable.
• Good listener with the ability to manage meetings and ask the right questions.
• Commitment to being on camera for all meetings.