finance transformation Project Manager (Urbandale)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead and support complex workstreams within a large-scale transformation program. This role is responsible for driving projects from strategy through execution, ensuring successful transitions, integrations, and delivery against defined objectives.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record delivering major change initiatives, managing geographically distributed teams, and partnering with senior stakeholders. Workstreams may span people, process, technology, and real estate , with a focus on implementing future-state operating models.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support multiple projects and workstreams from planning through successful implementation.
• Manage direct and indirect resources across geographically distributed teams and functions.
• Prioritize and coordinate multiple projects, programs, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Communicate project activities, priorities, risks, and status to senior management, stakeholders, and project teams.
• Develop and maintain key project documentation, including:
• Business cases and assessments
• Detailed project plans and migration schedules
• Communication plans
• Implementation plans and toolkits
• Executive-level project updates and presentations
• Facilitate decision-making, problem-solving, and alignment across project teams and stakeholders.
• Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies early and develop appropriate mitigation plans.
• Escalate critical risks and issues to leadership as needed.
• Maintain strong project governance, controls, and change management processes.
• Ensure project deliverables remain aligned with program objectives and the target operating model.
• Support successful business transitions and integrations across functions and regions.
• Drive assigned initiatives to completion with minimal oversight while maintaining strong stakeholder engagement.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Project Manager leading complex, large-scale projects or programs.
• Demonstrated success delivering major transformation, change, transition, or integration initiatives .
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and cross-functional workstreams.
• Strong project planning, execution, governance, risk management, and change control capabilities.
• Experience managing geographically dispersed teams and resources.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior-level leadership.
• Ability to create business cases, assessments, communication plans, detailed project plans, and executive presentations.
• Strong problem-solving, facilitation, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to drive projects to completion with minimal direction.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.