Principal Program Manager, Finance Transformation

Role overview

Work arrangement

• Hybrid model with three days per week (Tuesday through Thursday) working from the GCC office at RMZ Ecoworld, Bellandur, Bangalore.

Responsibilities

• Manage global cross-functional projects and programs from initiation through completion, including resourcing, reporting, and troubleshooting.
• Lead global shared-services transitions, including process migration, stabilization, and optimization.
• Drive finance transformation focused on standardization, automation, and scalability.
• Support Finance Service Infrastructure design and implementation through process mapping, standardization, data collection, and analysis.
• Lead RPA projects and identify digital enablement opportunities across finance processes.
• Develop and implement business cases and champion change across global teams.
• Analyze complex data and provide strategic solutions and quantified recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Maintain Service Infrastructure KPIs and develop financial and operational reporting for portfolio prioritization.
• Establish governance and communicate accomplishments, risks, and changes across regions and senior leadership.
• Manage lifecycle risks and ensure project quality, reliability, milestones, and budgets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; finance or a related discipline is specified. An advanced business degree is preferred.
• Approximately 8–10 years of progressive project and program management experience focused on Finance, shared services, and global business operations.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide transformation, shared-services transitions, finance process optimization, and automation programs.
• Experience in global, dynamic, deadline-driven environments; strong communication and leadership across geographies.
• Exposure to internal controls and SOX/404 requirements; this is stated as exposure, not a mandatory qualification.
• Experience with process mapping, change management, KPI creation, and benchmarking analysis.
• Prior RPA experience or knowledge; the description also allows knowledge rather than experience.
• Experience implementing technology programs supporting global process improvement.
• Ability to diagnose complex business situations, recommend solutions, communicate complex topics clearly, and adapt based on available data.

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