Senior Technical Program Manager – Workday Financial Management
| Company | Geico |
|---|---|
| Location | Springfield, VA, USA, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Madison, WI, USA, Boston, MA, USA, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Seattle, WA, USA, Indianapolis, IN, USA, Houston, TX, USA, Louisville, KY, USA, New Orleans, LA, USA, Des Moines, IA, USA, Nashville, TN, USA, Washington, DC, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Austin, TX, USA, Detroit, MI, USA, Cleveland, OH, USA, Augusta, ME, USA, Newark, DE, USA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Tampa, FL, USA, San Jose, CA, USA, Miami, FL, USA, Providence, RI, USA, Birmingham, AL, USA, Frederick, MD, USA, Jackson, MS, USA, Dallas, TX, USA, Virginia Beach, VA, USA, Raleigh, NC, USA, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Portsmouth, NH, USA, Chicago, IL, USA, Mt Laurel Township, NJ, USA, Boise, ID, USA, Charlotte, NC, USA, St. Louis, MO, USA, Arlington, VA, USA, Milwaukee, WI, USA, Bridgeport, CT, USA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Burlington, VT, USA, Kansas City, MO, USA, Omaha, NE, USA, Columbus, OH, USA, Hartford, CT, USA, Oklahoma City, OK, USA, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Denver, CO, USA, Portland, OR, USA, Columbia, SC, USA, Wilmington, DE, USA, Boulder, CO, USA, Atlanta, GA, USA, San Diego, CA, USA, Billings, MT, USA, Bend, OR, USA, Bethesda, MD, USA, Roswell, NM, USA, Dover, DE, USA, Cincinnati, OH, USA, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Salary | $130000 – $260000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Strong program and project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project/product delivery at scale
- Deep Finance domain expertise to be able to interpret Finance requirements into system solutions
- Working knowledge and experience with Workday Financials
- Strong understanding of accounting process; Management reporting philosophies; and cross-finance practices to ensure data, integrations, and solutions are well designed
- Detail and deadline oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills
- Strong critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and analytical skills
- Experience or certification in LEAN principles and practices
- Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document findings, proposals, issues, and status
- Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across Technology and Finance
- Experience with continuous delivery
- Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Self-motivated and able to work independently while coordinating activities with cross-divisional teams
- Effective leadership qualities, ability to influence without direct management authority
- Experience managing conflict to achieve project goals
- Transparency with management and stakeholders
- Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment
- Proven ability to multi-task is a fast-paced environment
- Strong experience of using Microsoft ADO and SharePoint is highly recommended
Responsibilities
- Partner with the project sponsor, delivery team, and stakeholders to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget
- Create, maintain, and actively manage a detailed project schedule, change control process, and documentation
- Work with your Sr. Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
- Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
- Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
- Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
- Leverage your knowledge of operational and LEAN practices/principles to streamline organizational and team processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness
- Coordinate project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams
- Leverage your knowledge of Finance systems to drive towards the right solution to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
- Leverage experience with various ERPs (e.g. Workday, PeopleSoft; Oracle Fusion Cloud; Hyperion; or SAP) to enhance existing applications or build new ones to support GEICO’s Finance organization
- Leverage your deep understanding of Finance, Accounting, and Management Reporting to drive solutions to meet business requirements
- Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
- Work with your leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community
- Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
- Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
- Report on progress of the program/project and other key metrics to align leadership and staff
- Present detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
- Perform process engineering through the review, refinement and improvement of existing processes and manage the improvements to completion without jeopardizing tactical delivery
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
- Facilitate agreement among all technical teams regarding technical solutions. Assure all system design issues are identified, tracked, and resolved on a timely basis
- Perform ad hoc research and analysis to ensure requirements are identified, tracked, and met
Preferred Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in managing large-scale Finance Technology programs
- 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Project Management, or equivalent
- 8+ years in working with industry leading ERP solutions (e.g. Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Hyperion, or SAP)
- Excellent understanding of Agile – Scrum/Kanban methodologies
- PMP or Scrum certified