IS Portfolio Manager - Finance

Description

Position Summary & Responsibilities:
Be a key business partner to support regional Support Function transformation as a primary scope of responsibility for Human Resources, Finance, Purchasing, Legal and Communication, with a heavy emphasis on Finance. In this role, you will build and promote the IS project portfolio of a business-related domain for which you are accountable of the execution or the regional deployment.

• Relationship Management: The primary scope of the relationship management is covering :
  
  • Act as leader with all IS resources involved in project deliveries by providing guidance and supervisory support to the project ensuring alignment with commitments
  • Can act as coach or mentor for other regional portfolio managers or project leaders.
  • Participate to project leader staffing.
  • Manage functionally and coach the project leaders assigned on the projects he / she is accountable for.
  • Establish strong partnership with the internal stakeholders of the related domain in the region.
  • Collaborate closely with the global portfolio manager by :
  • Contributing to the domain global portfolio definition and execution by providing the regional status and information.
  • Distributing global portfolio information having impact or interest for the stakeholders in the region.
• Portfolio definition
  
  • Contribute to define a global portfolio roadmap along with key regional stakeholders: content and ambitions, macro timeline, rough estimates, or budget.
  • Accountable to provide project budget inputs to IS Leadership and Executive Sponsors for the regional projects and deployments.
  • Contribute to translate and organize the regional part of the defined roadmap into projects plan (timeline, budget, resources)
  • Support the communication of the vision and the portfolio to IS and stakeholders in the region.
• Portfolio execution
  
  • Accountable for portfolio execution from opportunity to end of projects & deployments impacting the region.
  • Responsible of scoping phase to define budget & planning estimates and quality targets definition for projects & deployments impacting the region..
  • Accountable for making sure the project delivery respects its commitments in terms of scope, deliverables, costs & timing.
  • Provide inputs for Capacity Planning and secure staffing with IS Domain Managers and with business stakeholders when appropriate.
  • Participate in vendor management (RFP/vendor selection). Follow-up vendor performance.
  • Manage Fixed priced resources involved in project.
  • Ensure that the user adoption in projects is defined and measured.

Education, Skills, & Experience:

• Bachelors degree required with 5+ years of experience in program or project management in IT or any Support Function, Finance preferred.
  
  • Experience working in or supporting Finance or Finance projects is highly desired
  • Experience with SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, or a similar ERP is highly desired
  • Masters degree preferred but not required.
• Experience in a regulated environment preferred but not required
• Experience working in a global environment / organization is preferred
• Solid analytical, organizational, and project management skills and leadership
• Very good interpersonal skills, active listener, organizational awareness and relationship building
• Very good communicator, both verbal and written
• Ability to present projects, challenges, and opportunities to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to lead internal cross-cultural and transversal groups in a Worldwide environment

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