Finance Program Manager

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In this impactful role within our Finance Program Management Office (PMO), you will drive the planning and execution of cross-Finance process, technology, and data programs to optimize efficiency, insights, and growth for our Finance organization. You will handle the business side of multiple projects and interact with multidisciplinary, cross-cultural teams at all seniority levels, including leadership.

A successful candidate will be able to quickly understand the business and must have excellent communication skills, with strong experience in leading complex projects in a global environment. In addition to leading complex initiatives in support of our Finance transformation journey, you will help establish project management guidelines and practices to ensure effective, efficient, high-quality delivery that consistently meets or exceeds the expectations of the business. You are a self‑starter who takes ownership in ambiguous situations, helping to shape direction and bring structure when the path forward is not yet clear.

This is a hybrid position that can be based in either Los Angeles or Los Gatos and offers the flexibility to work remotely part-time. Occasional travel may be required to other office locations, including internationally.

Program Management

* Lead programs and projects from ideation through implementation. Help define scope, approaches, and success outcomes for projects.

* Develop project charters and comprehensive work plans with clear milestones and dependencies.

* Track the status of tasks to surface roadblocks to delivery and ensure milestones are met.

* Proactively manage risks; Propose and implement risk-mitigation strategies.

* Align business, product, and engineering partners on priorities and tradeoffs. Help connect the dots across teams and programs to increase understanding and power well-informed decisions.

* Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders as a thought partner on how work gets done—shaping approaches, proposing options, and facilitating decisions on the best way to move initiatives forward.

* Translate complex program status into clear, concise executive communications.

Stakeholder Management and Business Engagement

* Cultivate strong stakeholder relationships and maintain effective communication channels. Provide stakeholders with project decisions and milestone tracking. Ensure executive sponsors are informed via status updates and appropriate escalations.

* Collaborate with Finance business leads, product, engineering and technical program managers to deliver solutions that meet or exceed business stakeholders' needs.

* Manage through others; successfully influence cross-functional team members to achieve project goals.

* Proactively identify decisions needed and identify owners.. Provide the right context and data to inform stakeholder decision making.

Change Management

* Apply a structured methodology to lead change management activities

* Develop and ensure execution of change management deliverables (stakeholder analysis, business impact assessment, change adoption strategy, training plans, etc.)

Domain Knowledge

* Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report, and Forecast to Delivery business processes

* 7+ years of project or program management, planning, and implementing complex systems impacting multiple processes and teams

* 3+ years focused on finance and accounting processes and systems within a global enterprise

* Bachelor’s degree required (business or finance preferred)

* Project Management