Opex Project Manager (For independent contractors)

We are looking for a Project Manager to help us organize and manage a growing portfolio of medium and large initiatives that need to be executed on time and with great quality, solid experience within Finance would be a great plus. The candidate will join the Operational Excellence team in the O2C department.

As a Project Manager, you will coordinate & manage complex technology, business critical and operational excellence projects that may span across finance domains or multiple departments. You will work closely with people of diverse functional and technical backgrounds (a.o. Financial Systems, Finance Product & Technology, Treasury, Global Credit Control, Revenue operations, Payments/PayOps, Tax, etc.) and will be based in Amsterdam.

Your goal is to structure, plan, coordinate, and enable individual teams/departments to execute, while keeping the overall objectives & success in sight. We seek a strong stakeholder manager who will take full ownership and accountability for projects with a global scope combining traditional and modern project management methodologies as well as coaching and supporting your team members to achieve the desired level of maturity when it comes to project management.

If the idea of building and scaling up, managing complex stakeholder groups and helping the business achieve its roadmap is exciting to you, this may be your next career move!

B.Responsible:

• Own the successful delivery of the end-to-end project lifecycle

  
  

• End responsible for the timely delivery of multiple project/initiative(s) both within and outside the O2C department.

  
  

• Scoping, planning and defining success criteria aligned with business objectives for project delivery with medium/Large complexity initiatives.

  
  

• Understand milestones and impediments. Tracks and report progress, manages overall timelines, dependencies, risks & issues & monitor interdependencies (within & outside project)

  
  

• Create clear project plans together with involved departments and collaborate with cross functional teams to identify & build action plans

  
  

• Apply change management processes and tools to build a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.

  
  

• Enable team members & leaders from involved departments to make quality decisions

  
  

• Hold project members accountable for the delivery of their part of the project

  
  

• Engage stakeholders at all levels inside and outside of the organization

  
  

• Supports building of PM capabilities within the organization and other teams

B.Skilled:

• Experienced project manager with 5+ years with a proven track record in managing the full end-to-end project lifecycle on technology and business projects.

  
  

• Hands-on work and proven experience in finance operations and/or accounting

  
  

• Solid understanding and practical experience on multiple project management methodologies: waterfall, agile, hybrid, DMAIC, etc. and proven track record of managing both Finance and IT teams.

  
  

• PMP/Prince2 or Agile Project Management or equivalent certification is preferred.

  
  

• Lean Six Sigma green belt certification and overall continuous improvement methodologies knowledge is a plus

  
  

• Proven ability to navigate & execute projects in agile environment, without over-engineering things and coping with uncertainty and ambiguity

  
  

• Enjoys a fast paced, dynamic environment and able to work under pressure

  
  

• Pragmatic, able to solve several impediments by him/herself & can-do mindset

  
  

• Solid understanding of change management and able to guide people through change

  
  

• SAP knowledge is a plus

Communication & relationship management:

• Ability to work and efficiently get along with different collaborators up to (senior)Director and VP level.

  
  

• Strong communicator who can deal with ambiguity & conflicting priorities.

  
  

• Ability to work with, influence, and align with multiple stakeholders across all levels of the organization.

  
  

• Able to drive collaboration across teams and stakeholders

  
  

• Skilled negotiator who focuses on win-win solutions to tough challenges

• Organized & structured

  
  

• Organized, with a natural inclination for planning, and capable of responding to change

  
  

• Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues & challenges

  
  

• Result oriented & customer focused

  
  

• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent organizational agility and able to meet tight deadlines and prioritize in a rapidly changing environment.