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Role: Senior Project Manager – Financial Shared Services (FSS) Transformation Program
Location: Irving TX
Experience level: 12+ years

Role Overview
•     We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead and drive complex Financial Shared Services (FSS) transformation initiatives across business, finance, technology, and shared-services organizations. This role will be responsible for translating the FSS transformation strategy into executable programs, managing cross-functional dependencies, and delivering measurable improvements in process efficiency, standardization, automation, controls, and service delivery.

•     The ideal candidate has a proven track record of leading large-scale finance/shared-services transformation programs in complex, global environments, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage ambiguity, and drive execution across multiple teams and technologies.

Key Responsibilities

•     Lead end-to-end FSS transformation programs from strategy and roadmap through execution, stabilization, and benefits realization.

•     Drive transformation across finance processes such as Record-to-Report,  Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable/Receivable, General Ledger, and financial reporting.

•     Develop and manage integrated program plans covering process, people, technology, data, controls, change management, and organizational readiness.

•     Establish transformation roadmaps, milestones, KPIs, governance structures, and executive reporting.

•     Partner closely with Finance leadership, FSS leadership, Business Process Owners, IT, Data & Analytics, ERP teams, and external partners.

•     Drive process standardization and harmonization across business units, geographies, and operating entities.

•     Manage complex cross-functional dependencies across ERP, data, integration, reporting, automation, and enterprise platforms.

•     Lead workshops and executive working sessions to define current-state challenges, target-state processes, transformation opportunities, and implementation priorities.

•     Manage program risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, scope, budget, and resource capacity.

•     Establish effective governance and ensure timely escalation and resolution of critical issues.

•     Track business outcomes and ensure transformation initiatives deliver measurable benefits

•     Coordinate organizational change management, stakeholder communication, training, and adoption activities.

•     Manage system integrators, consulting partners, and technology vendors where applicable.

•     Provide concise and actionable updates to senior executives and steering committees.

Required Qualifications & Experience

•     10+ years of project/program management experience, preferably within Finance, FSS, ERP, or enterprise transformation.

•     Demonstrated experience leading complex Financial Shared Services or Finance Transformation programs in large/global organizations.

•     Strong understanding of finance processes, and transformation methodologies.

•     Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and large cross-functional teams.

•     Experience working across Finance, IT, Operations, Data, and business functions in a matrixed organization.

•     Strong experience with executive stakeholder management and steering committee governance.

•     Demonstrated ability to drive transformation where requirements, ownership, processes, and technology solutions may initially be ambiguous.

•     Strong financial and commercial management skills, including program budgets, resource planning, and benefits tracking.

•     Experience with SAP and familiarity with finance technology ecosystems.

•     Experience with process automation, analytics, AI, workflow, and digital transformation initiatives is highly desirable.

•     Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.

•     Proven ability to challenge the status quo and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

•     PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project/program management certification.

•     Experience with Finance Transformation effort across large and complex organization.

•     Experience with Finance Data Platforms, Power BI, Databricks, automation, AI, or related analytics technologies.

•     Experience managing large-scale consulting/system integration partners.

•     Experience with global process standardization, operating-model redesign, and service-transition programs.

•     Ideal Candidate Profile

•     The successful candidate will be more than a traditional project manager. They should be transformation leaders who can connect business strategy, finance processes, technology, people, and execution.

•     They should be comfortable operating in a highly complex environment with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, legacy processes, and evolving technology. The individual must be able to establish structure where none exists, build alignment among senior leaders, drive difficult decisions, and maintain momentum toward measurable business outcomes.

Key attributes:

Strategic thinker | Strong execution leader | Finance transformation experience | Influential communicator | Comfortable with ambiguity | Data-driven | Change-oriented | Executive presence | Results-focused