Associate, Project Manager - Finance Platform Strategies

About this role

BlackRock’s Finance & Strategy organization is on a multi-year journey to leverage technology and data to strengthen our control environment, automate and enhance processes and digitalize our employee and stakeholder user experience.   We seek to build on progress to date to accelerate our path towards an agile, scalable and insight-driven Finance function.  Our investments in data and technology create opportunities to modernize our data infrastructure; implement self-service dashboards and enhanced analytics for finance and business manager value.

Team

The role of the Finance Platform Strategy (FPS) team is to help drive transformative change, both within the Finance organization and with respect to how Finance delivers insights to business management teams across BlackRock.  As a member of FPS, you will own delivery of specific critical initiatives framed by clear goals and business requirements, measures of success and project plans which ensure each project can be executed successfully on a timely basis. Team members must be self-starters who are passionate about continuous improvement and who will productively collaborate to assess and respectfully challenge the status quo on an ongoing basis. Success is evaluated through a track record of proposing, influencing and executing constructive and innovative solutions that deliver against Finance and business partner objectives.   The team works in partnership to find creative ways to unlock capacity to enable finance colleagues to do their best work. Specific areas of focus will include enhancing finance data model architecture and associated change management processes for both data and meta data elements. 

Your Responsibilities

Project Management

• Actively manage initiative request prioritization, balancing stakeholder demand with resource availability
• Provide strategic direction and operating framework for prioritized initiatives
• Partner with key project stakeholders to define project scope and primary objectives based on business outcome expectations
• Guide team through efficient business analysis to develop smart and agile project roadmaps with appropriate sprint/milestone timelines based on a solid understanding of required outcomes, execution dependencies and risks, and resource requirements aligned across relevant parties
• Actively lead project execution teams, balancing progress with mitigated risk across multiple concurrent initiatives and ensuring key deliverables are produced within expected timelines and budgets
• Develop and oversee timely stakeholder reporting of project KPIs/KRIs

Communication

• Communicate clearly with executive presence and ability to make complex concepts simple and relatable to day-to-day stakeholder experiences
• Collaborate in a thoughtful and empathetic manner, maintaining focus on outcome delivery within timeline expectations
• Influence partners to drive rapid consensus
• Synthesize data, connecting dots to provide context and insight

Skills & Qualifications 

• 5+ years of project management experience
• Proven track record of driving strategic transformation at the enterprise level
• Excellent project management skills covering project inception through execution, implementation and closeout
• Strong Knowledge of Finance and Accounting Principles
• ERP Cloud (Oracle/SAP/Workday) experience preferred
• Strong business and data analysis skills
• Superior organizational skills; ability to multi-task and flex with changing priorities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear messages and the acumen to lead discussions with senior leaders
• PMP certified & Experience with Microsoft office suite. Smartsheet experience is a plus.

Character Qualities 

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
• Team-first attitude, collaborative instincts, strong interpersonal skills
• Perform well under pressure of fast-paced, high-intensity environment
• Action-oriented; willing to roll up sleeves to get the job done
• Confidence to evidence courage of convictions while able to enga