The Portfolio You Will Lead
Representative projects and the outcomes this role is accountable for delivering are below. The mix will evolve:
Project
What It Is
Residential IPP Accounting Technology Transformation
Redesign of residential income producing properties accounting processes and controls, current to future state.
Finance Portal
A digital portal for internal and external self-serve reporting.
Essential Functions
Project Management and Execution
- Act as and model the behaviours of an exemplary project manager in leading all project management activities.
- Lead delivery of finance systems and process transformation initiatives, including ERP, document management, reporting, and analytics solutions, within a complex multi-division structure.
- Manage end-to-end delivery lifecycles, from gathering business requirements and defining roadmaps through execution, go-live, and post-implementation support.
- Review and manage feasibility assessments, current and future-state process designs, solution designs, and design documentation.
- Manage, monitor, and report milestone status through detailed plans and schedules, ensuring each project is on budget, on schedule, and within the defined scope and quality.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies, and manage them to closure to keep delivery on track.
- Build trusted, customer-focused relationships across finance and the divisions; align teams to shared goals; raise issues; and schedule and facilitate the working and steering sessions that keep projects moving.
- Act as the liaison between technical and solution-design teams and senior leadership, ensuring solutions align with strategic business and finance needs.
- Develop and execute change management strategies, including stakeholder engagement, training, and communication plans that drive adoption of new systems and processes.
- Guide teams through change and uncertainty, managing the people side of transformation alongside the technical delivery.
- Evaluate, recommend, and deliver finance technology initiatives (ERP such as Dynamics 365, document management and SharePoint, Power BI and Fabric analytics) to strengthen decision-making and operational efficiency.
- Direct data integration, business intelligence, automation, and financial reporting initiatives that enhance the finance function's capabilities.
- Provide informed technical input to guidelines and standards, working with solution-design teams to keep solutions fit for purpose.
- Establish project KPIs, track performance, and report progress to finance and enterprise leadership.
- Optimize project management methodologies to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and streamline finance processes.
- Conduct post-implementation reviews to assess impact and identify opportunities for enhancement and scalability.
Key Accountabilities
- Release and deployment management: manage the release schedule, plan and execute deployments and cutovers, collaborate with stakeholders, ensure the agreed scope is delivered, and maintain risk-mitigation plans.
- Processes and procedures: develop, execute, and continuously improve delivery and lifecycle-management processes and procedures for the transformation office.
- Maintain approved project budgets, business cases, and benefits-realization documentation.
- Develop detailed project plans and track progress against schedules, reporting variances early.
Technical and Business Skills
- Strong understanding of finance systems, ERP, data platforms, automation, and emerging technology relevant to a modern finance function.
- Expertise in Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall project management methodologies.
- Ability to analyze business and finance processes and align technology solutions to improve efficiency and control.
- Proficiency in project management tools such as MS Project, Asana, Azure DevOps, or JIRA.
- Ability to drive change in a complex, multi-division environment.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for engaging executives, finance teams, and vendors.
- Negotiation and conflict-resolution skills to manage project challenges and hold stakeholders to commitments.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to navigate roadblocks.
- Ability to make informed decisions under pressure while balancing multiple priorities.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with finance, IT, the divisions, and external partners.
- Flexibility to adapt to changing technology and business needs.
- Occasional local travel to Rohit offices, project sites, or vendor locations, approximately 10%.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems or Technology, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. (Required)
- PMP or equivalent project management certification. (Preferred)
- Leading systems and process transformation projects, with 10 or more years of experience. (Required)
- Project planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and governance. (Advanced)
- Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies and project management tools. (Advanced)
- Stakeholder, vendor, communication, and change management. (Advanced)
- ERP or finance systems implementation and process re-engineering. (Advanced)
- Finance, accounting, or real estate domain experience. (Asset)
