Senior Finance Programme Manager

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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RWS Group

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5001 - 10000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

Consulting • Healthcare • Legal

RWS Group is a leading provider of AI-powered language services and technology, specializing in translation and localization for a variety of industries. With a focus on enhancing global communication, RWS offers solutions that improve translation quality, manage multilingual content, and streamline the localization process. Their services cater to sectors such as aerospace, finance, legal, life sciences, and technology, leveraging advanced AI to ensure clients can effectively connect across languages and cultures.

📋 Description

• Lead the full programme lifecycle from mobilisation and discovery through design, build, testing, deployment, stabilisation, transition to BAU and benefits realisation • Define and maintain programme vision, scope, outcomes, roadmap, milestones, budget, resource plan, success measures and governance model • Establish decision rights, escalation routes, reporting cadence and programme controls • Lead multiple interdependent workstreams across process, technology, data, controls, operating model and change activities • Maintain integrated plans, RAID and dependency logs, decision records, financial forecasts and executive status reporting • Deliver finance transformation initiatives including ERP implementations and migrations, finance systems integration, shared services transformation, process standardisation, reporting and control improvements, and systems consolidation • Oversee requirements elicitation, solution design and configuration across finance platforms and adjacent HR, payroll, production, time tracking, banking and reporting systems • Ensure finance processes and controls support a scalable global operating model and local statutory, tax, audit and compliance requirements • Oversee data discovery, cleansing, mapping, migration, reconciliation and validation • Define testing strategy and coordinate integration, user acceptance, regression, control testing and parallel runs • Lead cutover and deployment planning, readiness governance, contingency planning, command-centre support and hypercare • Ensure operational readiness through processes, controls, support models, service levels, training materials and standard operating procedures • Transition solutions into stable BAU ownership with clear ongoing service, control and continuous improvement accountability • Act as primary programme contact for executive sponsors, Finance and Technology leadership, process owners and regional stakeholders • Build alignment across Finance, Technology, HR, Shared Services, Operations, Internal Audit and other impacted functions • Prepare executive reporting on progress, financial position, risks, dependencies, decisions and recovery actions • Manage system vendors, implementation partners, consultants and service providers, including deliverables, procurement, commercial negotiations, statements of work and change control • Own programme risks and issues and ensure finance, technology, security, privacy, regulatory and operational risks are addressed • Embed financial controls, segregation of duties, audit trails and governance requirements in new processes and systems • Coordinate assurance activities, quality reviews and internal or external audit engagement • Define and oversee change management, communications, stakeholder engagement and training strategy • Assess organisational impacts and readiness, build business ownership and change networks, and minimise operational disruption • Define benefit measures and baselines, track delivery against the business case and ensure sustained outcomes • Capture lessons learned and improve programme delivery standards and the wider Finance transformation portfolio

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience delivering large, complex transformation projects or programmes within global, multi-entity organisations • Proven experience leading finance transformation, ERP, finance systems, payroll, HRIS or closely related enterprise technology implementations • Strong understanding of general ledger, financial close, reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, revenue recognition, cash management and financial controls • Demonstrated multi-workstream programme management experience, including planning, budgeting, governance, RAID management, dependency management and benefits realisation • Experience managing complex data migration, testing, cutover, hypercare and transition-to-service activities • Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills with C-suite sponsors and senior Finance and Technology leaders • Strong vendor and commercial management experience with SaaS providers, enterprise technology vendors, systems integrators and consulting partners • Ability to interpret complex business and technical information, resolve ambiguity and translate issues into clear decisions and executable actions • Excellent written and verbal communication, negotiation, facilitation and executive reporting skills • Experience delivering change across multiple countries, business units and operating environments • Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Great Plains, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle or comparable finance platforms • Experience of payroll or HR-to-Finance transformation, including payroll interfaces, parallel runs, compliance and operating model change • Experience of Finance Shared Services, global process ownership or finance process standardisation • Professional project or programme management certification such as MSP, PRINCE2, PMP or APM • Accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA, or equivalent finance experience • Experience working in a listed, regulated or audit-intensive environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment • Opportunities to grow as an individual and excel in their career • Work with smart people passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content • Inclusive workplace that celebrates difference and diversity