Project Manager (Sr. SAP Finance)

DIRECTV is one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services delivering a premium video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched programming, and industry leading customer service to more than 32 million customers in the U.S. and Latin America.

In this role you will be a hands on Project Manager for the Enterprise project management team. You’ll work with a cross functional team to ensure that projects are within scope, within budget and tracking to be delivered on time. You will help provide transparency into projects and the work being done by the project teams and business partners. In short, you will be the key “go-to” person for the project team and will play an integral part in helping us deliver amazing products.

About you:

• You are an excellent communicator who understands and effectively utilizes the art of clear and concise, yet enthusiastic, written and verbal messaging
• You are an obsessive list maker and task master who gets great pleasure from keeping others organized, communicating with both technical and business types, and ensuring your projects are delivered on time
• You can write specs, understand technical requirements and are able to guide a product or technical based project from conception to launch
• You take the initiative to keep projects moving and have a sense of urgency when it comes to meeting deadlines
• You think beyond the current month’s activities to proactively ensure future roadmap initiatives are being properly considered and planned for, risks are mitigated, and that key requirements and business value drive delivery decisions
• You are not afraid to ask “why?” get into the details, or challenge a decision or recommendation from a team member: you are a trusted advisor--not an order taker
• You are an optimistic and passionate leader who inspires project teams and resources to be transparent, proactive, accountable, and perform at an optimum level by leveraging their strengths

What you’ll do:

• Manage and report on schedules, project scope, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements and project delivery dates are clearly communicated, understood and executed upon

• Take point on key projects and issues and drive them to resolution

• Manage and become a respected leader of a cross-functional team in a highly matrixed organization

• Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance

• Consistently and proactively identify needs that others may not recognize and ensure approaches and solutions are linked to key objectives and future needs

• Communicate and document project status and strategic recommendations to team members and senior management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels

• Conduct project pre and post mortems and proactively identify opportunities for improvement to all process and tools used in the execution of project activities

• Clarify and communicate project objectives and success criteria to stakeholders and team members while providing motivation, direction, and overall feedback to teams

Required: 

• SAP (Finance Module, FICO etc.)
• Oracle Hyperion Financial Management a plus
• Initiatives: 10-12 small to medium size projects
• Take over any finance related projects and some bandwidth to assist to retire SAP (FICO) – As AT&T is on Oracle HFM (Hyperion Financial Management)
• Required: Major ERP - finance modules: Oracle, SAP, etc

Personality: 

Does well with the business stakeholders (accounting group)

Day to Day: 

• Managing stakeholder expectations and scope. 
• Budget is important and a responsibility, but they have access to a financial analyst to work off of.
• Must be detail oriented, strong SDLC knowledge, highly dependent on MS project, and experienced in large matrix organizations.

Enterprise Profile 

• Working with 15- 50 people at once
• Stakeholders: Finance, Dev teams, Architects, QA, BA, etc.
• Needs to know Critical Path, risks vs. Issues, basic methodology
• Large Matrixed Environments
• Worked with Custom Applications (Does not want deploying out of the box solutions)

This opportunity is a Long Term Contract