Senior Finance Project Manager - Remote

Logistics at full potential.

At GXO, we’re constantly looking for talented individuals at all levels who can deliver the caliber of service our company requires. You know that a positive work environment creates happy employees, which boosts productivity and dedication. On our team, you’ll have the support to excel at work and the resources to build a career you can be proud of.

As the Senior Project Manager, Finance you will be responsible for indirectly leading large-scale project teams across Finance to ensure efficient execution of acquisition integrations, transformation programs, and systems implementations. Success for this role will be creating and executing an integrated program plan that harmonizes project planning across the finance organization while ensuring the timely and successful delivery of finance projects.

Critical responsibilities include creating and tracking progress against an integrated project plan for Finance, incorporating internal and external stakeholder input, managing multiple concurrent projects, governing, and communicating the overall progress of the program to Finance and Region leadership teams.

Pay, benefits and more.

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

Program Management

• Lead the development and execution of an integrated program plan across various work streams.
• Drive transparency, communication and close collaboration between interdependent teams and projects to ensure success of overall programs portfolio.
• Actively manage key interdependencies among functions, processes, and business groups.
• Maintain and monitor team performance to the integrated plan. Identify dependencies and manage the critical path.
• Drive a high-performance culture by fostering innovation, personal accountability, and a commitment to results.
• Identify, mitigate, and highlight relevant risks to program sponsors.
• Support project managers and project teams to successfully achieve stated objectives.
• Conduct regular status updates with Program and Executive sponsors, facilitating discussion to obtain alignment on required decisions.
• Establish and utilize best-in-class PM tools and techniques.
• Lead the team in appropriate decision-making through strong judgment and the ability to analyze options and implications.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with functional leaders and stakeholders to drive the success of the program.
• Communicate effectively to all levels in the organization. Able to synthesize complex situations to highlight relevant areas for discussion or decision-making.
• Effective in working with a global team.
• Effective in managing through ambiguity.

Governance

• Establish governance approach to drive performance, accountability, and ownership across project stakeholders.

People Leadership

• Indirectly lead large-scale project teams across Finance to ensure efficient execution of acquisition integrations, transformation programs, and systems implementations.

What you need to succeed at GXO:

At a minimum, you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or equivalent related work or military experience
• 5 years experience with a strong track record in driving large and complex business transformation (particularly in Finance), acquisition integration, and systems implementation projects, preferably in the Logistics/Warehousing industry.
• Experience with ERP implementation such as Oracle Cloud
• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, effective stakeholder management, and communication across all levels.

It’d be great if you also have:

• MS, MBA, or other advanced degree
• PMP or similar certification
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, or other methodologies

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

GXO adheres to CDC, OSHA and state and local requirements regarding COVID safety. All employees and visitors are expected to comply with GXO policies which are in place to safeguard our employees and customers.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

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