Project Manager - Digital Transformation
About the role
Please note this is a hybrid role and needs to be in the office 2 days week at a minimum as such the successful candidate will have to be North Carolina based.
About the Role: You will project manage Association transformation projects from end-to-end. you will provide critical partner and project team management and communication to accomplish goals with efficiency and efficacy. You will report to the Senior Program Manager - Transformation as an individual contributor and use a hybrid work schedule.
At The Association, a Great Place to Work-Certified company, we are transforming the accounting and finance profession. We are future-focused, empowering the world's most accomplished accountants to stay relevant, meet today's demands, and prepare for tomorrow's challenges through quality education, resources, and training.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with important company partners and project sponsor(s) to understand, define, and document scope of work, budget, and resources needed.
- Manage, distribute, and archive project scope documents, project plans, schedules, project scorecards, and other critical and essential project documentation.
- Guide delivery of projects by ensuring you meet deliverable due dates, and by navigating schedule changes, resource challenges, enforcing milestones/deadlines, tracking risks and escalating them.
- Convene, facilitate, and document project meetings, ensuring communication of critical information to project team, partners, and sponsor(s).
- Contribute to culture of operational improvement by conducting retrospectives or lessons-learned meetings.
- Promote continuous improvement by project management of multiple teams and other efforts. These efforts include those focused on effectiveness of business activities and processes. They use process optimization methodologies and concepts such as Lean, Agile, and Six Sigma.
- In collaboration with functional team, lead, coordinate and assign resources or third parties/vendors for projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years experience managing complex projects
- Project Management certification (e.g. PMP® or Prince 2)
Benefits
We provide flexibility to help you achieve a good work-life balance. You