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Finance Program Manager
Alation, Inc., Colombia
Experience
1 Year
Salary
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Mar 22, 2021
Last Date
Apr 22, 2021
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Job Description
Alation continues to hire for roles at various locations with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19 crisis. Everyone new to the Alation team, along with our current workforce, will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our offices.Alation pioneered the data catalog market and today is leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search amp; discovery, data governance, and digital transformation. Nearly 230 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation. For more information, visit https://www.alation.com/
As a Finance Program Manager, you will lead and manage projects for our Finance organization through their entire project lifecycle, from gaining a thorough understanding of the solution through to successful project planning, deployment, business/service acceptance and project completion; all to time, cost and quality frameworks. You will be expected to manage multiple Finance system projects, with high levels of complexity, based on a range of different technology applications and platforms with 3rd party consultants and internal Finance members.The ideal candidate will have skills or experience in the following areas:- Project Management - be the glue for a project where financial systems experience accelerates requirements gathering, strategizes on the right plan of action, and collaborates with project team members to successfully move from the old to the new system
- Business Analyst - can translate business objectives and strategies into project efforts/phases
- Operations and Change Management - the process, tools and techniques required to manage the people side of change achieving the required business outcome
- Analytical Skills - have experiencing analyzing project metrics and trends to evaluate success of overall project
- Risk and Gap Analysis - Clearly able to identify and define risks, provide mitigation plans and document to provide in progress reports
- Excellent Communications Skills (English) able to communicate effectively with audiences of all levels and develop strong stakeholder relationships and maintain effective communication channels
- Data Visualization - use data visualization tools to tell and track the business trends story
- Grace under pressure - ability to manage in a high volume, sometimes high-pressure environment and is able to take action - identifying and seizing opportunities without unnecessary planning
Responsiblities:- Translate business objectives and strategies of Accounting, Financial Planning and Budgeting, and Finance analytics into project efforts/phases
- Ensure project completion within defined schedule, budget, and quality parameters
- Develop strong client and stakeholder relationships and maintain effective communication channels
- Communicate and navigate varying functional audiences to drive need actions and deliverables
- Review and track key process flows and maps to identify potential roadblocks, gaps, or issues
- Clearly define risks and gaps into progress reports highlighting the impact to overall value of solution if not mitigated
- Collaborate to demonstrate key success metrics of project impact to internal stakeholders
- Analyze overall project metrics and trends to evaluate success of overall project
Minimum Qualifications- Minimum of 3+ years of project management or similar experience in a tech environment
- Previous experience in a business analyst role (or similar) which required the ability to quickly comprehend business requirements and define and manage the tactical plan necessary to meet them
- Prior experience in a role which required extensive facilitation and communications to various stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications- Previous management consulting experience
- Have financial systems experience with a preference of Netsuite, SaasOptics, Workday Adaptive Planning, Avatax, Bill.com, Expensify
- Ability to indirectly influence others and manage cross-functional groups of peers
- Previous readiness experience highly valuable
- Strong work ethic, craftsmanship, and quality standards
- Comfortable acting with a clear sense of ownership, taking personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures
- Credible- you easily gain the trust and support of others and credit others for their accomplishments and contributions
- You get stuff done - you are a self-starter who steps up to handle new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
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