Accounting Project Manager - 6 Month Assignment

Job Description

We are currently recruiting a Project Manager for the Global Business Support Team at Informa. In this role you will be working alongside the Americas Tax Director, US Corporate Tax Team and across the business. As a Project Manager your role is to manage tax projects within Informa Global Support. You will be responsible for ensuring projects are delivered with measurable business outcomes including efficiency and direct cost savings, increased quality, and customer value and/or increased quality and customer value.

You will build good relationships with key stakeholders to ensure understanding of requirements, effective change management and clear communication. You will track and report on project impacts.

Key Areas of Responsibility & Accountability

As a Project Manager you will ensure the delivery of the following key objectives:

• Create and maintain project documentation such as plans for tax projects that define roles & responsibilities, milestones, preliminary deliverables, and deadlines.

• Liaise with all stakeholders including Tax, Record to Report and Technology teams.

• Keep all relevant stakeholders informed on project progress. Organize and attend stakeholder meetings.

• Ensure alignment of the project milestones with departmental resource

• Identify and work with the Americas Tax Director to raise blockers and ensure projects can progress.

• Assist colleagues on the appropriate use of lean tools.

• Ensure continuous measurement of key KPIs in each area.

• Conduct post-delivery feedback sessions to identify lessons learned and share to ensure continuous improvement of project practice.

• Understand voice of customer to ensure the best outcomes.

• Create and maintain standard operating procedures and deliver standardization, best practices, methods, and procedure documentation.

• Contribute to the continuing evolution and refinement of business/operational processes to optimize quality, timeliness, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of process execution and delivery.