Senior Technical Program Manager - Workday Financial Management (REMOTE)

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Technical Project Manager within the Finance Technologies area you will:

• Partner with the project sponsor delivery team and stakeholders to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget

• Create maintain and actively manage a detailed project schedule change control process and documentation

• Work with your Sr. Director to address project dependencies negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community and deliver projects on time

• Identify and raise appropriate project risks in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives

• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas

• Report on your teams progress for project and other key metrics in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery

• Leverage your knowledge of operational and LEAN practices/principles to streamline organizational and team processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness

• Prior Financial Services Industry experience is required with a solid understanding of the functional and technical aspects of ERP applications

• Coordinate project activities across multiple systems departments and teams

• Leverage your knowledge of Finance systems to drive towards the right solution to support the department and GEICOs current and future needs

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle

• Leverage experience with various ERPs (e.g. Workday PeopleSoft; Oracle Fusion Cloud; Hyperion; or SAP) to enhance existing applications or build new ones to support GEICOs Finance organization

• Leverage your deep understanding of Finance Accounting and Management Reporting to drive solutions to meet business requirements

• Collaborate with product managers team members customers and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

• Work with your leadership to address project dependencies negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community

• Identify and raise appropriate project risks in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives

• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas

• Report on progress of the program/project and other key metrics to align leadership and staff

• Present detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery

• Perform process engineering through the review refinement and improvement of existing processes and manage the improvements to completion without jeopardizing tactical delivery

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• Analyze cost and forecast incorporating them into business plans

• Facilitate agreement among all technical teams regarding technical solutions. Assure all system design issues are identified tracked and resolved on a timely basis.

• Perform ad hoc research and analysis to ensure requirements are identified tracked and met

Qualifications

• Strong program and project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams with successful project/product delivery at scale

• Deep Finance domain expertise to be able to interpret Finance requirements into system solutions

• Working knowledge and experience with Workday Financials

• Strong understanding of accounting process; Management reporting philosophies; and cross-finance practices to ensure data integrations and solutions are well designed

• Detail and deadline oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills

• Strong critical thinking problem solving decision making and analytical skills

• Experience or certification in LEAN principles and practices

• Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills including the ability to clearly document findings proposals issues and status

• Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across Technology and Finance

• Experience with continuous delivery

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced startup-like environment

• Self-motivated and able to work independently while coordinating activities with cross-divisional teams

• Effective leadership qualities ability to influence without direct management authority

• Experience managing conflict to achieve project goals

• Transparency with management and stakeholders

• Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment

• Proven ability to multi-task is a fast-paced environment

• Strong experience of using Microsoft ADO and SharePoint is highly recommended

Experience

• 12 years of experience in managing large-scale Finance Technology programs

• 10 years of experience in Product Management Project Management or equivalent

• 8 years in working with industry leading ERP solutions (e.g. Workday PeopleSoft Oracle Fusion Cloud Hyperion or SAP)

• Excellent understanding of Agile - Scrum/Kanban methodologies

• PMP or Scrum certified

Education

• Masters or Bachelors degree in Information Technology Business Administration Finance or Accounting

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.