What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Project Manager - Financials Technology (REMOTE) position at GEICO?
GEICO is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager with a passion for working on complex programs across multiple departments and teams. You will be the key to drive teams of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide products. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a Tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.
This Senior Technical Project Manager is a key member of the Financial Technology team working across the organization planning, prioritizing, and leading implementations within the Finance Technology domain. You will collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders at different levels to ensure timely delivery of impactful projects. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in applying project management skills with working knowledge of Workday Financials and a background in Financial Services, Accounting or Corporate Finance. Experience in the Insurance Technology is a plus.
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 team's 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 GEICO's 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 GEICO's 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
Experience
Education
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Annual Salary
130,000.00 - $260,000.00
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 candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Benefits :
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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.
Salary : $130,000 - $260,000
