Senior Project Manager - Finance and Tax

Key purpose:

In-depth experience in the finance and taxation areas and SAP project implementation is a MUST. As a Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for managing all projects and tasks assigned to the team, as well as working closely with the business development manager. You'll be responsible for maintaining an accurate project schedule and ensuring that deadlines are met. You'll also be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously while completing other tasks at your discretion.

Duties and responsibilities:

In-depth experience in the finance and taxation areas and SAP project implementation is a MUST

Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures

Identification and managing of Project dependencies and Critical Path

Scheduling regular meetings and recording decisions (e.g. assigned tasks and next steps)

Update project management governance documents

Prepare and provide documentation to internal teams and key stakeholders

Monitor project progress and address potential issues

Act as the point of contact for all participants

Organizing, attending, and participating in stakeholder meetings

Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings

Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings

Ensuring project deadlines are met

Determining project changes

Providing administrative support as needed

Undertaking project tasks as required

Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for the project

Document project risks and issues and follow-up on feedback and solutions

Ensure that all key stakeholders stay informed and are considered when required, e.g., GDT OpCo, Quality Manager and the ServiceNow Owner

Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members

Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective

Build out Statement of Work for projects with the relevant subject matter experts

Updating the Project Management Tracking and Monitoring Tools, where required

Qualifications and experience:

In-depth experience in the finance and taxation areas and SAP project implementation is a MUST

SAP experience is non-negotiable

Experience in managing projects to implement IT service components with complexing in terms of Integration to multiple systems

RICEFWs ( Reports, Interfaces, Conversions , Enhancements, Forms , Workflows)

Interdependency to existing Projects

Multiple BUs across different locations globally, Multiple languages

Multiple vendor contracts/partnerships

Reporting capability, including dashboards

Organizational design , SLA Definition, Target Operating Model definition, Global Service Catalogue General project management understanding and experience (PMP / PRINCE2 certification)

Project administration knowledge and experience

Organisational change management: understanding the key concepts and its importance in a project Solid organization and time-management skills

Knowledge of and experience in Pharmaceutical industry is preferred

Knowledge areas COBIT frameworks, Quality ISO9001 / GAMP

Originally posted on Himalayas