IT Project Manager- Financials (Remote)

Position Purpose:

This project manager will be responsible for tracking resources and financials totaling $60M and comprising of roughly 500 resources spread across many projects. Successful candidates will need to be energetic, driven, and highly motivated. High attention to detail will be essential to ensuring accuracy in financial tracking and reporting. Strong interpersonal skills will also be key to working effectively with matrixed departments and varying levels of management. Experience with data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Power Query, Smartsheets, Sharepoint lists) will be a big plus for financial forecasting and reporting. When performing financial/budgeting activities they will monitor and adjust to given budgets, track labor, capital spend, and support variance root cause analysis.

Key Responsibilities:

• 85% Delivery & Execution - Establishes and executes effective communication with Project Stakeholders; Partners with stakeholders to lead the project planning effort, including the formulation of the project scope, definition of the project deliverables and the required delivery dates, creation of a logical work breakdown structure, and definition of major project milestones; Understands organizational/initiative goals and success criteria to apply to project work; Experience in Agile, Waterfall or other project delivery methodologies. Ability and understanding of project plans and development, risk identification & mitigation. Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives; Creates, monitors, tracks, and adjusts project plans based on critical milestones for a project of group of initiatives; Assists in development, then executes change management process and activities within Technology organization; Works with stakeholders to determine and align dependencies, then proactively risk and issues via identification and mitigation plans;
• 15% Resource & Financial Management - Participates in vendor selection and onboarding processes in accordance with Home Depot policy; Can be involved with the purchase order and invoicing process for 3rd party vendors; Executes fiscal management and reporting for operational, product/business, technology, and vendor stakeholders; includes gross labor, capital spend, and non-labor forecasting for tracking, reporting, and variance analysis

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This Position typically reports to Manager of Delivery Management
• This Position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to lead and execute fiscal management for $50M IT budget (i.e., gross labor, capital, and expense)
• Energetic, driven, highly motivated individual
• Proven organizational and time management skills essential
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with various departments and levels of management.
• High attention to detail to ensure accuracy in financial tracking and reporting.
• Detail oriented with advanced Excel skills and experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for reporting to stakeholders and VPs.
• Soft skills are key (professionally friendly as needed, but able to work with strong personalities, and can be appropriately assertive when needed to drive work)

Nice to haves:

• Experience with data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Power Query, Sharepoint lists, Smartsheets) for financial forecasting and reporting.
• Coding and/or automation skills a plus
• Prior management of IT contracts (both labor and maintenance) a plus

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 2

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Manages Ambiguity
• Collaborates
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Plans and Aligns
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Financial Acumen