Technical Project Manager in Chicago, IL
Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project. May require a bachelor's degree and at least 6 - 8 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department. The Technology Project Manager (Tech PM) position will be accountable for all end to end RICEF deliverables for the Release 7 Finance team. The Tech PM will participate in project kickoff and blueprinting activities for the purpose of understanding the business process solution and how technology supports the solution. The Tech PM will ensure that the proposed solution is inline with One Up's IT direction. The Tech PM will receive a RICEF inventory. This position must ensure that the RICEF inventory is rationalized, dependencies are clearly identified, and the inventory is properly sequenced. This position will create an end to end RICEF deliverable project plan including Functional Design, technology acceptance, technical design, build, and assembly test. This position will be solely responsible for executing and managing this plan. In order to do so, the Tech PM will need to coordinate build activities across many technology delivery teams including but not limited to SAP development, Application Integration, Data Warehouse Realization, Data Readiness Team, Enterprise Data Warehouse, and various Legacy technology teams. It is the responsibility of the Tech PM to ensure that RICEF deliverables pass Assembly Test in time for System Test. In addition, this position will serve as technology integrator for the Release 7 Finance team and primary point of contact for issue resolution. It is the responsibility of the Tech PM to ensure issues are resolved in a timely fashion and escalated when appropriate. . This position is expected to be a single point of contact for the technology delivery teams to set priorities and determine when additional testing support is required. The Tech PM will be expected to represent technology in the Finance Team weekly meetings. This position will provide implementation and methodology expertise, and facilitate the use of the One Up methodology. The Tech PM will be expected to report accurate status to Technology Leadership and proactively raise issues and risks when deliverables are delayed. Experience: - SAP Finance- SAP implementation experience is a must. Hands on experience with ECC strongly desired - Knowledge in the following functional areas of SAP (Route accounting and settlement, Billing and AR, Profitability Analysis, GL, Cost Center, Profit Center accounting) - BS in Computer Science, Business, or Information Systems. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here