Business Integration Project Manager - Finance

Must have Skills/Attributes Banking/Financial, ERP, Payment Processing, Process Improvement, Procure to Pay (P2P), Project Management, Risk Management, Stakeholders Required Education//Certifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Information Systems, or a related discipline. Preferred Education/ Certifications: • Professional certifications such as PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, or related credentials. Required Skills, Experience, & Abilities: • Strong project management skills and an accountability mindset; ability to execute pre-built task plans, take a task list to determine requirements, verify completion, require proof, and hold cross-functional teams accountable (avoiding a "checking the box" or "task-doer" mentality). • Ability to handle many changing priorities simultaneously while coordinating complex cross-functional projects. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including a willingness to speak up for clarity, question completion, and present complex information concisely. • Intermediate to advanced experience in project management, accounting, and/or payment processing. • Knowledge of finance, accounting, operational processes, month-end close, and shared services environments, specifically including procure-to-pay (three-way match, requisition-to-PO) and high-level payment processing (vendor/supplier side, invoice entry, payment flow). • Familiarity with navigating ERP platforms and enterprise systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, Workday); specific system expertise is not required as training will be provided. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities. • Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills across all organizational levels. • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to develop executive-level presentations and analyses. • Ability to work systematically in an SOP-driven environment with strict project task plans rather than agile/waterfall methodologies. Desired Skills, Experience, & Abilities: • Experience supporting project management, corporate development, management consulting, transformation, M&A, or business operations initiatives (M&A experience is highly valued but not required, as it can be taught). • Full lifecycle project management experience (welcome for improving or facilitating plans, though not strictly required as project plans are pre-built). • Understanding of project management methodologies, governance processes, and risk management practices. • Experience supporting data migration, system implementations, or business process transformation initiatives. • Exposure to larger corporate environments, particularly with full procure-to-pay cycles. Job Overview: The team is responsible for supporting the successful execution of strategic business initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions and divestitures. As an M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) Business Integration Manager, you will play a key role in planning, coordinating, and executing end-to-end integration activities across multiple functional areas to enable seamless business transitions and operational readiness. This position partners closely with cross-functional stakeholders to identify integration requirements, assess operational impacts, manage risks and dependencies, and support the implementation of target-state processes, systems, and organizational structures. The role serves as a critical link between operational teams and project teams to ensure integration activities are executed efficiently, and business objectives are achieved. Responsibilities: • Execute project task plans across functional teams within the shared service center (finance), focusing on procure-to-pay, accounting, and month-end close. • Manage shared service center staff handling payments, journal entries, and supplier processing, strictly holding them accountable, verifying completion, and escalating issues to the manager as needed. • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, dependency trackers, and implementation schedules. • Coordinate activities across Global Business Services (GBS), Finance, Technology, and other functional teams. • Monitor project progress, track integration milestones and deliverables, and escalate key risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies. • Assess current-state and target-state business processes to identify operational gaps, overlaps, and improvement opportunities. • Support process harmonization, standardization, operating model transitions, testing, operational readiness, and post-integration stabilization efforts. • Partner with business leaders and functional stakeholders to drive alignment across integration workstreams. • Facilitate workshops, governance meetings, and stakeholder discussions while documenting key decisions and action items. • Maintain integration risk and issue logs and support the development of mitigation and contingency plans. • Assess system integration requirements and coordinate data migration, process transitions, and system cutover activities. • Partner with systems teams to support ERP, financial systems, reporting, master data, and operational integrations. • Develop executive-ready presentations, dashboards, reports, and governance materials for senior leadership. • Support change management initiatives, stakeholder communications, training activities, and business continuity efforts throughout transitions.