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Job Summary:
Universal Music Group is the world’s leading music company, committed to artistry, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The Sr. Director, Project & PMO Lead – Finance Transformation will drive strategic finance transformation initiatives, coordinating complex programs and ensuring alignment across stakeholders and leadership teams.
Responsibilities:
• Develop, maintain, and continuously optimize the integrated program plan across all finance transformation workstreams.
• Manage and track key milestones, deliverables, critical dependencies, and interrelated project activities to ensure successful program execution.
• Drive proactive identification and resolution of risks, issues, and blockers impacting program delivery.
• Monitor project health, delivery performance, and achievement of transformation objectives.
• Establish and manage program governance structures, including leadership meetings, working groups, and executive steering forums.
• Coordinate program cadence, ensuring consistent communication, decision-making, and accountability across stakeholders.
• Support Steering Committee preparation, including development of executive-level presentations, status updates, decision requests, and risk assessments.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among Finance, Technology, Operations, HR, and other business stakeholders.
• Coordinate and consolidate status reporting across multiple workstreams to provide a comprehensive view of program progress.
• Develop and maintain reporting templates, dashboards, and executive communications that provide meaningful insights into program performance.
• Monitor program KPIs, delivery metrics, and transformation outcomes to drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain comprehensive RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) logs and decision registers.
• Ensure timely escalation of critical risks and issues while driving mitigation and resolution plans.
• Track action items, decisions, and ownership to maintain program momentum and accountability.
• Monitor program budgets, resource allocation, capacity planning, and financial performance against approved plans.
• Partner with Finance leadership to track investment spend, forecast resource needs, and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Support prioritization of initiatives to maximize business value and delivery effectiveness.
• Establish and enforce consistent project management methodologies, standards, tools, and best practices across transformation initiatives.
• Drive adoption of governance frameworks and delivery disciplines to ensure predictable execution and transparency.
• Champion a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across the program portfolio.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience in Project Management, Program Management, PMO leadership, or Finance Transformation roles.
• Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-functional transformation programs within Finance, Shared Services, ERP, or Business Transformation environments.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and delivery best practices.
• Demonstrated experience managing integrated project plans, RAID management, executive reporting, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience overseeing budgets, resource planning, and delivery performance for complex programs.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with senior executives, business leaders, and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
Preferred:
• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or equivalent project management certification preferred.
• Experience within a global organization and familiarity with Finance processes, ERP implementations, or Finance Transformation initiatives highly preferred.
Company:
Universal Music Group is a music-based entertainment company that offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide. It is a sub-organization of Leviy Publishing. Founded in 1934, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.