Scrum Master: III (Senior)-

Location: Dallas, TX Salary: Depends on Experience Description:
Dallas, TX (Hybrid 2 days onsite and 3 days remote)

Contract role

Position Summary

• The Senior Scrum Master will lead Agile delivery across Accounting and Finance teams while also serving as a strong project delivery partner within the organization's Project Management Office (PMO) governance framework. This role combines hands-on Scrum leadership, project and program management discipline, and financial-domain understanding to drive predictable execution, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• The ideal candidate is experienced working with Finance stakeholders, technology teams, and cross-functional partners and can seamlessly operate across Agile and traditional project management environments. The Senior Scrum Master will facilitate Agile ceremonies, remove delivery impediments, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure projects meet established PMO standards for planning, reporting, governance, and executive communication.

Key Responsibilities

Agile / Scrum Leadership

• Serve as Scrum Master for one or more Accounting and Finance delivery teams.
• Facilitate effective sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and other Agile ceremonies.
• Coach Product Owners, developers, business stakeholders, and delivery teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.

• Identify and remove impediments that impact team productivity, delivery timelines, or business outcomes.
• Promote team accountability, transparency, collaboration, and a healthy Agile delivery culture.
• Monitor team performance and delivery metrics, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Support effective backlog management, prioritization, estimation, and release planning.

Project Management & PMO Governance

• Lead projects and workstreams from initiation through implementation, ensuring alignment to scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business objectives.
• Apply PMO governance standards, methodologies, templates, stage gates, reporting requirements, and controls.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, RAID logs, status reports, dependency maps, financial tracking, and executive-level reporting.
• Coordinate project governance activities, including steering committee materials, stage reviews, decision logs, and escalation processes.
• Proactively identify project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and resource constraints; develop mitigation and escalation plans.
• Ensure project documentation and delivery artifacts meet PMO standards and audit/compliance expectations.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies across Accounting, Finance, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and other business functions.
• Provide clear and timely communication to senior leadership regarding project status, risks, decisions, and required actions.

Accounting & Finance Partnership

• Partner closely with Accounting and Finance leaders and subject matter experts to translate business objectives into actionable delivery plans.
• Support initiatives such as financial systems implementations, process improvements, regulatory or control-driven projects, reporting enhancements, close optimization, automation, and data initiatives.
• Understand finance processes and terminology sufficiently to anticipate delivery impacts and facilitate productive discussions between business and technology teams.
• Help teams balance Agile delivery practices with financial controls, audit requirements, governance standards, and organizational policies.
• Ensure project outcomes align with Finance strategy, operational priorities, and measurable business value.

Stakeholder & Leadership Management

• Build strong relationships with business, technology, product, architecture, data, operations, and executive stakeholders.
• Facilitate difficult conversations, resolve conflicts, and drive timely decisions.
• Influence without direct authority and create alignment across teams with competing priorities.
• Present complex project information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Escalate critical issues appropriately while maintaining a solutions-oriented approach.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in Scrum Master, Agile Delivery, Project Management, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading Agile teams using Scrum or similar Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects through formal PMO governance processes.
• Experience working with Accounting, Finance, or other corporate financial functions.
• Strong understanding of project planning, risk management, dependency management, status reporting, and executive governance.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Agile and project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent Agile certification.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or comparable project management certification.
• Experience with Finance transformation, ERP, financial systems, reporting, data, automation, or process improvement initiatives.
• Experience in a large, regulated, complex, or highly matrixed organization.
• Experience supporting executive steering committees and senior leadership governance forums.

• Knowledge of financial controls, SOX, audit requirements, or other finance-related governance practices.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects or programs.
• Bilingual in English/Spanish is a Nice to Have

Core Competencies

• Agile Leadership: Strong Scrum facilitation, servant leadership, coaching, and continuous improvement.
• Project Delivery: Ability to manage scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, resources, financials, and deliverables within PMO governance.
• Finance Business Acumen: Ability to understand Accounting and Finance priorities and translate them into delivery outcomes.
• Governance & Risk Management: Strong discipline around controls, documentation, escalation, decision-making, and executive reporting.
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to build trust, influence stakeholders, resolve conflicts, and create alignment.
• Communication: Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Execution Orientation: Strong ability to move work forward, identify obstacles early, and maintain accountability for outcomes.

Success Measures

• Success in this role will be demonstrated through:
• Predictable delivery of Accounting and Finance initiatives.
• Consistent adherence to PMO governance and control requirements.
• Improved Scrum team effectiveness and delivery velocity.
• Timely identification and resolution of risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder and leadership satisfaction.
• Improved transparency into project health, milestones, financials, and delivery outcomes.
• Successful delivery of initiatives that achieve defined business value and Finance objectives.

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