Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

What you do

As a Senior Project Manager, this role brings a focus to finance processes and seeks to identify and implement improvements that support our automation, efficiency and optimisation objectives under Finance Transformation strategy. The priority of this role will be to drive process review projects within Finance Factory and Accounting teams to implement process improvements. The MEA region teams will be the first priority for this role.

Process Optimisation:

• Lead a process optimisation program in the nominated finance teams
• Engage with the finance leaders to identify the opportunity areas and develop a schedule of processes for review
• Conduct finance process reviews with the team members, documenting the activities as part of the process; and developing an inventory of finance processes
• Through these review exercises, identify the opportunities for: standardisation, system functionality, internal automation (macros, robotics), and opportunities to stop/reduce/remove certain activities.
• Develop a pipeline of improvement initiatives, work with the managers and team members to determine the potential benefits and savings, and align on prioritisation
• Implement the prioritised initiatives with support from the Intelligence Centre team and IT teams where applicable
• Develop a mechanism for monitoring progress, monitoring savings, and reporting regularly on these initiatives
• Support senior management in rolling out process optimisation initiatives across other areas within the Finance Factory – other Teams or other Lines of Business

Leadership & People management:

• Take the lead on developing and implementing process optimisation methodologies and tools within the Finance Solutions team and the Finance Factory department
• Establish and document ways of working – for example how to conduct process reviews; how to document the process flow; how to measure potential benefits
• Onboard other team members to the process optimisation team. Take responsibility for recruitment, onboarding and training, assigning work, supporting and reviewing
• Support people and team engagement initiatives within the team and within the Finance Solutions team as a whole
• Participate in other finance projects and team activities as required
• Support across the Finance Solutions - Health team, if required, with the onboarding of new arrangements (frontings, partnership, TPA etc) or new large clients. Support with new process development, bringing knowledge of process improvements that have been introduced
• Provide insights to new system functionalities as needed in the requirements gathering phases
• Support other ad-hoc projects where necessary
• Actively participate in team communications and engagement initiatives

What you bring

• A project specialist, working in a finance environment, 3-5 years’ experience in Process Improvement, Process Automation, or Finance Transformation
• Demonstrable experience in implementing process improvements – with evidence of benefits realisation
• Demonstrable experience managing own projects – documenting project scope and requirements; project planning; and regular project reporting to different management levels
• Experience working on complex topics, solutioning and carrying implementation through to completion
• Experience managing others, performance management as well as work assignment and review
• Educated to Degree Level; Finance/Accountancy or Business related
• Professional Project management qualification a distinct advantage
• Highly organized and structured; detail oriented with high accuracy
• Demonstrable knowledge of the following tools & languages: MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Visio
• Excellent collaboration & communication skills
• Personal Effectiveness – highly motivated, proactive, self starter, responsible and highly committed, confident and personable
• Solution focused, driving continuous progress on initiative and projects

What we offer
Project Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

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