Responsibilities:
Associate Director responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Leadership, supervision and development of HIH program delivery team.
- Development of a team culture focused on performance, continuous improvement and quality program delivery.
- Coaching and mentorship of junior team members promoting professional growth and development.
- Content creation to support Governance meetings for project initiatives and other communication material,
- Management of documentation on SharePoint and other project tools (Jira)
- Support the administration and monitoring of Agile development activities and Finance application performance relative to KPIs; may include routing issues and inquiries to appropriate subject matter experts
- Monitoring and development of a structured intake process for new initiatives from Finance and cross-functional partners in coordination with partner teams across Finance
- Support the planning, administration and status reporting of testing cycles inclusive of tester & environmental readiness and defect tracking and remediation efforts.
- Support development of testing scenarios in collaboration with workstream leads and QA teams; align testing scenarios to requirements for traceability.
- Execute / administer program and governance management process inclusive of progress status reporting, risk and issue tracing and change control management.
- Create broad communication materials for extended stakeholder teams
Competencies / Skills:
- People leader with the ability to build teams, develop and retain talent
- Ability to foster a collaborative team environment supporting knowledge sharing, team development and a community of professionals focused on successful program delivery.
- Ability to lead people through program changes and pressure associated with delivery.
- Ability to review deliverables for completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards.
- Ability to resolve conflict (striving for win-win outcomes); ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity
- Ability to deal with organizational politics including ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization effectively.
- Strong Influencing skills (sound business and technical acumen as well as skilled at achieving buy-in for delivery strategies)
- Stakeholder management (setting and managing expectations)
- Strong business acumen including ability to effectively articulate business objectives.
- Analytical skills, Highly Focused, Team player, Versatile, Resourceful
- Ability to learn and apply quickly including ability to effectively impart knowledge to others.
- Precise communication skills, including an ability to project clarity and precision in verbal and written communication and strong presentation skills.
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Project Management
- Requirements gathering
- User interaction / customer service
Experience Required:
- Qualified candidates will typically have 16+ years of progressive project experience within finance and accounting spaces inclusive of planning, design, delivery, status tracking, testing, and coordination & communication across multiple workstreams. Successful candidates will be high energy, self-starters with a focus on quality output and project delivery success. The ideal candidate will be an experienced people leader and have supported global team development in prior roles.
Experience Desired:
- Bachelor s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field preferred
- Desired Tool Experience & Project Practices: Oracle Cloud tools, Microsoft Suite, Agile, Jira, Zeyphyr, Sharepoint, and Confluence
- Demonstrated experience establishing and delivering complex projects/initiatives within agreed upon parameters while achieving the benefits and/or value-added results.
- Experience with Agile delivery methodology.
