Project Manager

Position:
Project Manager

Company:
WPP

Location:
India, Mumbai

Employment type:
Not Specified

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week

Short Summary:
WPP is seeking a Project Manager to support the development and maintenance of a large-scale financial controls application across 100+ finance teams globally.

Responsibilities:
- Facilitate ongoing successful delivery, maintenance, and user growth for the finance application across HQ & Networks
- Drive project success metrics and timelines
- Identify opportunities to set up and improve programme-related processes to drive efficiency
- Facilitate delivery of change requests and application enhancements
- Plan, administer, manage & monitor the UAT testing activities for new functionalities
- Lead delivery of programme governance documents and preparation for internal Board meetings and audit checks
- Identify and proactively handle risks, issues, and dependencies, forecast resource demand and prioritisation
- Directly manage the day-to-day of our supplier team

Requirement:
- 5+ years of experience in managing delivery of large-scale global transformation programmes and/or finance applications impacting 1000+ users
- Excellent communication skills, ability to cross-functionally sell ideas, collaborate, and engage with the C-suite
- Experience with data-driven decision making, agile delivery, and creative problem solving
- Strong cross-functional Team Leadership & Stakeholder Management skills
- Mastery of Microsoft products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), MoSCoW and other Change Management concepts
- Solid Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, Compliance skills

Benefits:
- Passionate, driven people – We champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work
- Scale and opportunity – Opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects at an unparalleled scale
- Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers