Revenue Accounting, Project Manager at CDW Careers

This role manages technology, process improvement, and/or organization design endeavors needed by the finance organization; collaborates with functional leaders, IT team members, and external people to deliver successful results; evaluates efforts and shares learning’s; coaches and mentors peers and team members on ways to deliver project results.

The Manager, Revenue Projects manages technology and  process improvement endeavors for the Revenue team; collaborates with functional leaders, IT team members, and external parties to deliver successful results; evaluates efforts and shares learning’s; coaches and mentors peers and team members on ways to deliver project results.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Support business teams through recommendation, scoping, and guidance through completion of systems and business process improvements. 

Other Responsibilities

• Structures projects for success by establishing scope, resources, schedule, requirements gathering and risk mitigation plans. 
• Manages projects to deliver successful results. 
• Coaches and manages team members in delivering work. 
• Partners with, and manages internal and external resources needed for initiatives. 
• Works closely with internal (i.e., IT) cross functional team members to deliver projects. 
• Contributes ideas to the technical and  process improvement design solutions. 
• Analyzes functional (project) data in order to develop ideas, approaches, and strategies for solutions. 
• Participates in the generation of ideas and requirements with project teams 
• Distributes knowledge/experience throughout the finance organization, and CDW. 
• Develops and delivers training and/or business-focused methodologies to finance team (e.g., adoption, change management). 
• Leads change through the Accounting organization, serving as a Change Agent and developing and distributing materials to manage and track understanding, acceptance, and gaps. 
• Participates in organizational excellence teams to continue to learn and contribute ideas, approaches, tactics, and strategies. 
• Creates artifacts, white papers, decks, articles to share within CDW. 
• This role will support accurate planning, reporting and analysis of projects and operations. 

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance or Accounting. 
• External Candidate: 6 years of data analytics/data management, business analysis, and/or program management experience in technology, process improvement, and/or organization design initiatives along with some general accounting/finance experience. 
• Internal Candidate: 5 years of data analytics/data management, business analysis, and/or program management experience in technology, process improvement, and/or organization design initiatives along with some general accounting/finance experience. 

Required Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Proven track record in problem analysis with the ability to creatively and proactively problem solve.
• Track record of balancing multiple priorities simultaneously with the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the business, while meeting deadlines.
• Proven project management, planning and organizational skills with demonstrated ability to effectively document processes.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain collaborative working relationships cross- functionally.
• Solid leadership skills with the ability and proven track record to coach, develop and mentor teams of internal and/or external people. Excellent interpersonal skills capable of interfacing effectively with key stakeholders; must possess team orientation.
• Solid, current technical knowledge of how to establish structure to support successful initiatives including technical development life cycles, process improvement and organization design best practices, and change management strategies.
• Ability to plan and facilitate information gathering and idea creation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven successful management of the full life cycle of complex technology/process improvement programs with package software and custom-developed applications.
• MBA or CPA
• Experience with full life cycle of custom development of financial information systems/applications.
• Management consulting experience.