Description:
The role acts as Finance PMO Lead under the CFO as Executive Sponsor: it maintains the master plan, controls dependencies, tracks milestones, coordinates advisors, maintains the readiness tracker, identifies delays and escalates decisions.
Key responsibilitiesProject management
- Develop project charters, scope, objectives, deliverables and success criteria.
- Build detailed implementation plans and milestones.
- Establish project governance and meeting cadence.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and track deliverables and dependencies.
- Maintain project documentation and drive projects through completion.
Project governance
- Establish and maintain a consistent governance methodology: Executive Sponsor, Project Owner, Project Manager, Workstream Owners, Timeline, RACI, Budget, Risks, Decision Log and Status for every project.
- Report project status to the CFO on a fixed cadence, with the VP of Accounting/FP&A and the Head of Corporate Finance included.
Risk & issue management
- Maintain the risk register, issue log, dependency tracker, decision log and escalation process.
- Surface problems early and bring decisions to the CFO. Do not wait until a project is late to communicate that it is late.
Finance systems implementation
- Lead requirements gathering, process mapping and system design workshops.
- Coordinate data migration, UAT and cutover planning.
- Run go-live, hypercare and the post-implementation review.
- Manage implementation partners and vendors: statements of work, deliverables, quality and escalation.
Change management
- Coordinate stakeholder communication, training plans and SOPs.
- Own go-live readiness, post-go-live support and process documentation.
- Track user adoption against defined adoption KPIs.
Finance transformation portfolio
- Build and maintain the Finance Transformation Roadmap: initiative, owner, PM, priority, status and target date.
- Run a monthly portfolio review with the CFO, the VP of Accounting/FP&A and the Head of Corporate Finance.
QualificationsRequired
- 7–10 years of experience combining Finance / Accounting, Project Management, Finance Transformation and ERP implementation.
- Track record leading finance systems implementations end to end from the client side.
- Working command of core finance processes — close, AP/AR, expense, inventory and costing — and how they are reflected in an ERP.
- Experience managing implementation partners and vendors on scope, timeline and quality.
- Strong written and executive communication; able to drive accountability without direct authority.
Preferred
- NetSuite, Oracle or SAP; finance transformation; SOX; process redesign; UAT and data migration; internal controls; high-growth companies.
- Energy, infrastructure or construction industry exposure, including project accounting and project finance.
- PMP, CPA, CMA, Agile / Scrum or Lean Six Sigma. PMP is nice-to-have, not a requirement — successful ERP implementations count for more.
- Professional English and Spanish, given that vendors and advisors work in both.