Google Hiring for Program Manager, Alphabet Finance Program Management Office at Austin, TX Full Time
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location for this position from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- 7 years of relevant work experience including FP&A, Accounting
- Experience in project management, leading cross-functional strategic initiatives
- Process/change management experience
Preferred qualifications:
- Detailed understanding of Finance business processes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – can dive into detail and come up to distill
- Ability to influence across all levels of the organization and to partner effectively with cross-functional teams
- Effective problem solving, process improvement and analytical skills
About the job
We’re looking for exceptional Program Managers to join the Alphabet Finance Program Management Office (PMO) to help write the next chapter in Alphabet’s evolution. Your job will be to structure projects with your stakeholders, define project goals and risks to execution, gather and define comprehensive requirements, design new business processes, effective change management to deliver on planned benefits and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle, including clearly communicating status, risks and remediation plans to executive stakeholders.
This isn’t your typical Program Manager role, we need strategic thinkers with excellent business acumen who can use their deep understanding of Finance to guide decision making, solve problems, provide analytical insight and business judgment to support strategic and tactical initiatives across the Alphabet organization. Relationships are crucial to our success and yours. You will need to be able to navigate the organizational structure of various functions and product areas, building strong relationships not only with partner teams but also with their stakeholders in senior management. Comfortable with ambiguity and tight deadlines, you are an innovative thinker who understands how it all comes together across finance from the transactions to the reporting. You enjoy problem solving and strategy as well as being proactive to get the job done. Not bound by the status quo or your job title, you seek out new ways to solve complex finance operational issues and have demonstrated you know how to find the right balance between risk, speed and cost.
Responsibilities
- Structure projects with your stakeholders, define project goals and risks to execution, drive projects through the entire project lifecycle, including clearly communicating status, risks and remediation plans to executive stakeholders
- Collaborate with Finance and cross-functional teams to document workflows, identify gaps, propose improvements and drive consensus to achieve agreed set of requirements. Define and monitor key metrics in order to measure business impact of process improvements
- Create business case and business requirements documents, develop test plans
- Track accomplishments, milestones, key issues and/or change controls
- Establish and lead working group meetings. Deliver regular project status reporting, presenting to Executive sponsors
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