Core General Ledger - Project Manager / Product Owner - Analyst

JobID: 210511663

Category: Program Management

JobSchedule: Full time

Posted Date: 2024-05-26T23:00:25+00:00

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The Firmwide Finance Business Architecture team (FFBA) is accountable for leading large-scale data, infrastructure, accounting standard and business process change management events and the Chief Data Office for Finance and TCIO. The team also provides a centralized program management and business analysis capability, targeted program governance, and consistent application of program management standards including system testing and change management practices, with a current focus on overseeing the Data Acquisition framework for strategic and legacy Finance, TCIO, and Wholesale Credit Risk platforms.

As a Core GL Project Manager / Product Owner within the SAP General Ledger application team, you will manage project activities and collaborate closely with technology partners to spearhead change initiatives and implementations.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist in the defining business requirements, performing gap analysis, & identifying current and future operating models

• Organize, schedule, coordinate, and manage project activities and resources, including scorecards and senior management updates

• Identify issues, risks, and project roadblocks and develop effective risk management approaches and mitigation strategies

• Work in partnership with team members and/or stakeholders to resolve issues and own the communication and escalation process as required

• Ensure operational readiness through both rigorous testing and implementation management

• Drive components of the GL Platform based initiatives, coordinating across technology and the businesses

• Define and execute project deliverables, including business requirements

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business

• Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to multi-task in a constantly changing environment

• Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Basic understanding of ERP / General ledger applications (SAP) and associated functionality

• Working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence tools