Project Manager

Company Description

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Company Name: Booking

**Job Description**:
Booking Holdings is currently undergoing a Global Finance Transformation that will drive effective finance support for business management, promote strong governance and control in the organization; and have a world-class finance organization in terms of execution and efficiency.

This role will be responsible for project management, directly impacting the delivery and execution of various strategic programs and solution deployments underpinning this transformation, by ensuring that projects are clearly defined (scope, time, cost, and resources), tracked and controlled through their lifecycle, and appropriately reported and communicated per existing governance processes

**Responsibility**
- Drives delivery and execution of select projects/ work streams, including both longer term global initiatives and shorter-term process improvements.
- Contributes to the Project scoping and planning by documenting project goals, requirements, KPIs, roadmap and main deliverables, tracks completion of project milestones and maintains project artifacts.
- Interacts with project sponsors, project stakeholders and multiple business and technical teams to define and document requirements, key design decisions and complex features.
- Manages project Actions, Risks, Issues and Dependencies, including appropriate escalations and anticipates bottlenecks while balancing business needs with technical constraints.
- Works with the Organizational Change Management team to ensure appropriate communication planning, stakeholder analysis, and change management activities
- Creates, maintains and disseminates project information, project issues and status to stakeholders, in a concise, accurate, and professional manner.
- Adheres to and helps improve internal governance and program management standards across the Enterprise Program Management Office.

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Experience working as program or project manager on significant projects with global reach
- PMP or related certifications preferred
- Experience leading global strategic initiatives, within a shared services environment undergoing financial transformation
- Understands and can execute initiatives using the PMBOK framework to move an initiative efficiently through a project lifecycle
- Experience leading technical requirements gathering using SDLC preferred
- Understanding of Accounting Practices and Standards such as GAAP and IFRS
- Experience with SaaS solutions Financial Systems
- Knowledge of P2P, R2R, and O2C business processes
- Skilled communicator and proven relationship builder, able to operate within a multitude of formal and informal networks while managing the competing interests of varied stakeholders
- Ability to work successfully with consulting teams and strategic partners to maximize value and accelerate change
- Experience operating in, and driving alignment and consensus in a complex and matrix environment
- Experience working with global teams, capable of bringing together stakeholders, to align requirements and drive improvements
- Proven ability to interact with and influence peers and senior management in a complex, geographically dispersed organization
- ** Self-directed, dynamic and customer-centric change-agent who thrives in a challenging and changing environment**

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