Staff Program Manager - Finance

Intuit's Finance team drives business growth and profitability through strategic, financial and operational leadership. Our team is composed of finance operations, accounting, supply chain, corporate strategy & development and tax professionals that support and enhance Intuit's operating efficiencies.

This is a functional leadership role (not an IT position) in the Finance Digital Transformation Office working across the various finance functional teams and multiple IT engineering organizations in support of the financial systems and business processes for Quote to Cash (Q2C)/Billing and Revenue, Source to Report (S2R), Record to Report (R2R) and Finance Data. The Finance Digital Transformation engagements include ERP implementations, internally developed systems and platforms as well as SAAS tools.

This position will require strong cross-functional skills, effective program management and change management skills, exceptional communication and planning skills, be able to work effectively with diverse groups, be skillful with quantitative/qualitative analytical methodologies and tools, use data to drive decisions, able to solve complex problems, able to identify and manage risks, identify correction action early, drive escalations and decisions to ensure successful and timely delivery of projects to completion with the highest level of quality. This individual needs to be a driver, leader, team player and a thought partner.

Responsibilities

• Program Execution: Drives cross-functional execution of a program, from requirements to delivery and ensures that a program delivers on time with high quality, within budget and in accordance with stated business and technical objectives.
• Planning and Tracking: Creates, optimizes, and drives structured schedules and project plans across projects and cross-functional teams. Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based on changing data or conditions. Assists in planning and ensuring that a project tracks resources, timing needs, and budget constraints. Assists in ensuring adherence to quality and other relevant standards. Tracks open issues and effectively negotiate to impact decisions and trade-offs and to guide issues within internal and external groups to resolution. Holds program team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and deliverables.
• Risk Management and Problem Solving: Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans. Identifies cross-functional dependencies and tracks and reports on their progress. Proposes workable solutions to problems by analyzing business trade-offs among alternatives and uses objective judgment and influence to formulate and drive constructive debate and decision making on recommendations.
• Prioritization: Balances process compliance with critical few and achievement of business objectives to consistently make the right strategic trade-offs for the program. Assigns priorities to multiple competing and important program team activities quickly and effectively and communicates them appropriately.
• Communication and Coordination: Documents and communicates status, issues, and risks in a timely manner to stakeholders and senior management. Ensures that the appropriate documents exist and are broadly communicated to drive shared vision among the program teams. Creates clearly understandable and actionable success criteria, objectives, and requirements and communicates them to the team. Conducts program and cross-functional team meetings to update status and identify and resolve issues. Achieves quality results through team interaction and effective cross-group collaboration
• Scope and Influence: Programs are multi-year efforts consisting of multiple programs, often with non-aligned schedules and deliverables. They involve complex projects where little or no precedent may exist, requiring engagement with and accountability to business & functional group leaders across Intuit. The results impact critical corporate-level objectives affecting business units and functional groups across the company.
• Multi-level communication and coordination plans that provide top-down, end-to-end management and tracking of progress, issues, and dependencies for multiple teams, phases, and projects
• Program schedules including complex, multi-phase, multi-program schedules, involving multiple, potentially non-aligned contributing teams. Addresses all planning, implementation, and integration
• Build budgets and cost-benefit analysis at the multi-program level
• Artifacts that establish necessary operating mechanisms for cross-organization programs.
• Effective and persuasive presentations appropriate for Executive-level audiences when communicating any of the above