Project Leader - Technology Finance

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Position Purpose:

The Project Leader serves as a key member of the Analytics & Tooling team, responsible for managing and enhancing the Technology Non-Labor data ecosystem. This role owns the end-to-end Non-Labor data pipeline and reporting platforms, ensuring the delivery of accurate, scalable, and actionable financial data to support planning, forecasting, reporting, and business decision-making. Key focus areas include:

• • Non-Labor Data Pipeline Ownership: Own the day-to-day management, maintenance, and enhancement of the Non-Labor financial data pipeline, ensuring accurate, timely, and reliable data. Utilize SQL, Google BigQuery (including Dataform), Tableau, and related technologies to develop, maintain, and optimize data and reporting solutions.
  • Reporting & Dashboard Management: Serve as the product owner for existing Non-Labor reporting solutions, including Tableau dashboards. 
  • Tooling Enhancement & Automation: Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the Non-Labor data and reporting ecosystem, leveraging automation and process optimization to improve scalability, enhance the efficiency of financial processes, and improve insights to total technology cost of ownership.
  • Unified Financial Management Enablement: Support the integration of labor and non-labor financial management capabilities by contributing to the development, testing, implementation, and ongoing support of future reporting and tooling solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• 40% PROJECT CONTROL - Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed. Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes
• are implemented.
• 30% PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS - Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders. Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates/presents project review documents to senior leadership.
• 10% PROJECT RISK ASSESSMENT - Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches. Monitors project activities for the occurrence of
• risks and takes timely action to escalate or mitigate the risk. Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed.
• 10% PROJECT LESSONS LEARNED - At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Leaders. Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects.
• 10% PROJECT ENVIRONMENT - Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment. Ensures teams are staffed, duties and
• responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to Sr Finance Manager.
• This role has no direct reports.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Access, and Powerpoint
• MBA
• Prior experience in corporate finance and/or retail

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Ability to perform detailed analyses as well as create executive summaries of the analyses.
• Ability to present and defend own work and work of others to senior leadership.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to influence the decisions of individuals that you do not supervise.