Senior Finance Project Manager

ISS connects people and places to make the world work better. Are you ready to connect to a place where you belong? At our corporate facilities or at client sites – together, we make places while transforming businesses into having even more positive impact on societies, the environment, and our people.

 

Location: Warsaw, Poland or Copenhagen, Denmark

Language: English

 

Main purpose of the position

Are you looking for a project manager role in a company that values equality, fairness, and openness? ISS is a leading workplace experience and facility management company that in partnership with customers drives the engagement and well-being of people and minimizes the impact on the environment. The position is in the ISS Finance Transformation team.

 

A core value in ISS is the ability to take different viewpoints into account when we design our solutions and drive change. We work closely together across group functions and towards our colleagues in the respective countries. As a result, we value flexibility and the ability to find common ground as equally important as your technical proficiency within project management.

 

Our ideal candidate is high performing project professional who can drive governance, planning, follow-up, and performance reporting in a large multidisciplinary global IT project in dialogue with Program Managers, Program SteerCo’s and the receiving organization. As part of our highly collaborative approach good communication and change management skills are essential.

 

What you’ll do:

• Execute IT Finance projects to achieve desired results
• Ensure that the project applies ISS PMO best standards, governance, and principles in an efficient manner
• Facilitate founded decision-making, consistent follow-up, and decision/action documentation
• Enhance transparency and one source of project truth to the overall program progress
• Support effective project communication and organisational readiness across platforms and stakeholders
• Drive the planning and tracking of cost, time and resources supporting the business case and projected benefits
• Building an effective governance and reporting structure across the project
• Plan the various project phases in advance of the program needs and challenges ahead
• Document all project information and create appropriate reports based on them

 

Key qualifications:

• Ability to plan the project deliverables and timeline needed to deliver the project successfully.
• Experience planning and follow-up cost, time, and resources actuals versus plan.
• Managing risks, issues, and escalation proactively with relevant stakeholders.
• Experience creating approach for developing, testing, and piloting project solutions.
• Gather feedback from internal stakeholders, suppliers, or employees
• Experience in establishing effective communications structures
• Ability to drive project change management.
• Ability to motivate and engage both receiving and supporting organisation.
• Ability to create reporting based on different expectations coming from different stakeholders.
• Diligence in creation of one project truth based on gathered data.

 

Personal & Professional skills you excel:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, accounting or adjacent discipline
• Project Management and ITIL certifications a plus
• 5+ years of experience working with project management/execution of large projects and programs in IT Finance context
• Understanding of Finance and Accounting processes incl. systems and application
• Experience in software development initiatives in multinational companies
• Excellent understanding of project management
• Experience of being part of Finance transformation program
• Ability to work individually as well as in a team environment, collaborate and build
• relationships
• Ability to motivate and resolve problems within a complex stakeholder environment
• Strong ability to execute with attention to details
• Adaptable, enthusiastic and a continuous learner
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken (English), feels comfortable with presenting to key project stakeholders and leadership team

 

In this role you will have the opportunity to become a part of high performing team of Project Managers, have exposure to senior stakeholder from Finance Transformation and the many countries that make up our global organisation.

 

ISS has an open and informal culture founded on professionalism at all levels. We work collaboratively as a team, towards a balance between process efficiency, effectiveness, contr