Finance Project Manager

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

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Job Summary:

Caterpillar IT-Corporate Services Division (Finance IT) has an opening for a Finance Project Manager at the USA, Peoria/AD facility overseeing projects for ERP/ Mach1/SAP Finance Deployments. Oversee the planning, organization and implementation of multiple and complex Finance projects with deep knowledge in Finance and SAP Implementations.

What You Will Do:

• Responsible for management for all the financial, commercial, contractual, and technical aspects of SAP/QAD/Mach1/ERP Deployment projects

• Collaborate with cross functional teams.

• Provides oversight for the planning, execution, delivery, change management, training, testing, user support and transition to support projects

• Develops the project timetables, milestones and monitoring the scheduling, budget, and performance of ERP/SAP Finance implementation projects

• Manages commercial aspects and support technical direction to various project global teams

What You Have:

Project Management / Planning: Working knowledge and typically directs entire finance projects from Initial assessment to hyper care and transition to support. Work is self-started. Individual must be innovative and inventive to solve Finance or complex project roll out problems.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and situations to achieve superior proactive project order management and customer service

• Coordinate project schedule with both the customer and project teams.
• Monitors progress to schedule in all the various functional areas.

• Monitors finance solutions and reviews change requests.
• Regularly inspect progress of deployment solution to assure compliance to specification, resolving problems quickly, and project milestones are being met.

Collaborating: Working knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Experience in dealing with multiple disciplines such as contractors, consultants, dealers, engineering, IT sales & Distribution, IT purchasing, and finance business teams and should have strong experience in working with vendor partners.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple simultaneous projects involving cross-functional technical teams within budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.

Effective Communications: Working knowledge and understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Problem Solving: Working knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

• Identifies and documents specific finance problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem during the finance projects and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decisi