Project Manager – Finance Integrations
RELXThe Finance Project Manager - Legal Entity Rationalisation and Integration, is responsible for managing all aspects of legal entity rationalisation, including finance integration, mergers and divestments of existing and acquired legal entities and businesses and any new legal entity set ups and all associated Oracle Fusion system requirements. They will be required to work with the business (acquired and existing), technical teams and users to scope, design, plan and then to integrate these structural changes into the Elsevier standard global processes on time and to budget.
Accountabilities:
Solution evaluation & design
Co-ordinate the risk and cost assessment of integrating the target entity into the standard finance operating model
Implement the interim and end state integration solution
Work with the technical teams to evaluate the current technical environment and propose the solution based on Elsevier standard functional design
Develop project plans based on the standard playbook, adapting them for different country and situation requirements
Refine plans and business case costings
Project responsibilities
Manage day to day integration projects to plan
Manage and escalate risks and issues to the Elsevier Head of Legal Entity Rationalisation and Integration
Ensure on time delivery and overall quality of deliverables
Review and manage all changes to requirements
Manage knowledge transfer between all third-party project specialists
Project Communications & stakeholder management
Serve as the subject matter expert for project communications
Act as escalation point for any of the project workstream leads across finance, functional teams, and acquired business teams for all issues
Maintain project governance framework and deliver regular project reporting
Ensure that the Elsevier Head of Legal Entity Rationalisation and Integration is kept fully informed of progress and emerging issues
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree holder
Professional accounting accreditation (CPA, CMA, or equivalent)
Good understanding of tax and statutory reporting requirements
Strong communicator with customer service orientation
Ability to build trusted connections with stakeholders to foster collaboration and support project goals
Experience and knowledge of finance processes
Strong project management skills or substantial exposure to project-based work
Proven experience of managing business change led projects
Familiarity with business process design principles
Ability to identify, clarify and resolve issues and risks escalating them appropriately
Ability to negotiate changes to commitments/requirements
Integrations experience a benefit but not essential
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