Business Services Project Manager for Finance

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

·       8+ years of relevant experience in digital transformation, specifically in Business Services, with significant experience in the Finance domain

·       Proven experience leading Finance transformation, ERP implementation and business services projects in large international organisations, including initiatives involving cloud-enabled solutions, data platforms and enterprise-wide process harmonisation

·       Demonstrated experience with Finance process design, process harmonisation and business transformation

·       Proven experience in programme management and project management, preferably in complex, multi-stakeholder environments

·       Strong ability to interact with, manage and influence senior executive stakeholders

·       Strong communication skills in English, including the ability to develop written materials and present complex concepts clearly and succinctly

DUTIES/ROLE:

·       Project Management, Stakeholder Management and Communication Management

·       The contractor will drive alignment and collaboration across NATO’s enterprise initiatives and business services, ensuring coherence and increased effectiveness across all organizational entities. Responsibilities include:

ü  Managing projects and initiatives: Execute project and program management of business services initiatives. Ensure delivery of scope within time and budgetary constraints

ü  Stakeholder management: Engage regularly with stakeholders across NATO entities, including Finance, HR, Procurement, Legal, and others, to promote synchronized efforts toward harmonizing enterprise business services

ü  Documenting: Develop and maintain documentation artefact necessary for any of the outlined tasks

ü  Managing risks: Maintain risk and issue registries, propose mitigation measures, and address challenges to enhance the successful delivery of business services transformation

·       Leading the Finance Business Services Transformation track

·       The contractor will act as the main lead for the Business Services Transformation Finance track, ensuring coherence, streamlined processes and operational excellence across NATO entities. Responsibilities include:

ü  Finance stream leadership: Lead and coordinate the Finance stream under the broader Business Services Transformation effort, acting as the main point of coordination for Finance-related enterprise initiatives within CDT

ü  Enterprise Finance Process Harmonisation: Lead the Enterprise Finance Process Harmonisation exercise, including planning, stakeholder engagement, coordination and facilitation of working sessions

ü  Dependency management: Identify and manage dependencies between Finance transformation activities and related enterprise initiatives, including ERP, cloud migration, data platform, procurement, HR and other business services initiatives

ü  Decision support: Prepare briefing material, options analyses and recommendations to support senior-level decisions on Finance transformation, process harmonisation and Finance cloud/ERP initiatives

·       Business Services Advisory (SME Role)

·       The contractor will provide expert advisory support on Finance business services, ERP implementation and Finance-related cloud transformation initiatives, ensuring that Finance transformation activities are informed by relevant expertise, leading practices and enterprise-wide considerations. Responsibilities include:

ü  Finance SME advisory: Provide CDT staff with ad-hoc subject matter expert advice on Finance business services, ERP implementation, cloud-enabled Finance solutions and relevant technology considerations

ü  Market and leading-practice insight: Advise on market practices, leading practices and lessons learned from large-scale Finance transformation, ERP implementation and cloud-based Finance programmes

ü  Business and technology alignment: Support alignment between Finance business requirements, enterprise architecture, cloud adoption, data management and NATO’s wider digital transformation objectives

ü  Documentation review and quality assurance: Review Finance-related project documentation, plans, process materials, solution approaches and delivery artefacts, providing recommendations to improve quality, coherence and delivery confidence

ü  Stakeholder engagement support: Support engagement with Finance stakeholders across NATO entities to ensure that transformation activities reflect operational needs, enterprise priorities and agreed Finance process harmonisation objectives