Job Description
Senior Program Manager, Global Finance Transformation job seeks a team member to drive efficiency and collaborate in a fast-paced global organization.
We are a Global Finance Transformation Program working across the Amazon Accounting team, aiming to improve accounting colleagues' experience while accelerating financial close, driving compliance, and increasing efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Interact with stakeholders and teams to define and deliver solutions to complex challenges.
- Drive multiple projects to completion across various organizations and teams.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.
- Facilitate process improvement workshops with stakeholder teams.
- Plan and manage multiple parallel projects, maximizing resources for the greater good of the organization.
- Identify, assess, track, and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.
- Create, maintain, and disseminate project information to stakeholders.
- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
- Be the glue that understands, plans, and manages cross-team inter-dependencies.
- Communicate project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner.
- Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, numerous constraints, and consideration of risk.
- Remain flexible to changing priorities, open to new ideas, and have Amazon's success firmly in focus.
A Day in the Life:
This role will work with project SMEs, multiple IT teams, and Accounting and Compliance stakeholders, energizing and harmonizing contributors to facilitate a 'One Team' working environment.
The PM will lead multiple global projects in parallel, agree prioritization/backlogs with the Global Finance Transformation lead, plan scope and capacity, and then manage the execution and report through to delivery.
About the Team:
We are a Global Finance Transformation Program working across the Amazon Accounting team, aiming to improve accounting colleagues' experience while accelerating financial close, driving compliance, and increasing efficiency.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Project management qualification (e.g. PMP, IMPA) or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience delivering cross-functional projects.
- Significant experience in program or project management.
- Significant experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams (software development and application infrastructure) with aggressive schedules.
- Experience in managing multiple vendors and SMEs with no direct reporting line.
- Experience with project delivery for large, global, cross-functional projects, including presenting to leadership teams.
- Experience defining project requirements and using data and metrics to demonstrate improvements.
- Experience within complex organizational settings (e.g., PMO, geographic dispersion, etc.).
- Familiarity and previous experience with process improvement (CI, Lean Six Sigma) and agile methodologies.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Process Improvement/CI/Lean/Six Sigma qualification.
- Experience working in Accounting organization.
- Comfortable holding a project team accountable and driving them towards governance and reporting best practices.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, comfortable being the 'front' person, leading with behavior/culture.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including excellent listening skills, concise communications, and targeting the message to specific audiences.
- Detail-oriented, yet able to look at a wide array of choices and identify what truly matters.