Project Director - Business & Finance Transformation (Remote)

Description & Requirements

Since 1975, Maximus has operated under its founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People, enabling citizens around the globe to successfully engage with their governments at all levels and across a variety of health and human services programs.

Maximus delivers innovative business process management and technology solutions that contribute to improved outcomes for citizens and higher levels of productivity, accuracy, accountability and efficiency of government-sponsored programs.

With more than 30,000 employees worldwide, Maximus is a proud partner to government agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

For more information, visit https://www.maximus.com .

The leader will have a strong belief in the importance of and unwavering passion for continuous improvement.

The leader will be viewed as someone to come to for resolution of challenges, both processes and systems, in support of the CFO organization.

The result will be more effective and efficient solutions for our users and Maximus.

Top of mind will be the importance of our business focusing on their clients and growth and support services focusing on our internal client - the business, removing any unnecessary administrative burdens for these teams.

Demonstrated in the leader's presence and work will be our global core values: accountability, respect, compassion, innovation, collaboration, and customer focus.

The leader will drive results through strong project management, communication, and change management.

They will develop strong relationships with stakeholder groups across Maximus.

The leader will understand their circle of control and influence are broad and even the most challenging goals can be accomplished.

The leader's focus will be on project management and there will be an opportunity to support Quality and Risk Management (QRM) and employee engagement as well.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Ownership of identifying and engaging stakeholders.
- Development of Project Charter.

- Development and management of project management plans (project, communications, training, change management, stakeholder, risks and issues).

- Ownership of timeliness, quality, and budget for projects; if additional funding is required, must have strong rationale and explanation for change.

- Utilization of agile methodology both internally at Maximus and with external suppliers.
- Listen and empathize with different perspectives, build consensus, and achieve specific goals set.

- Establishment of executive sponsors and executive steering committee to support and make decisions on initiatives.

- Build Trainings for Finance and Accounting organization such as processes, systems and methodologies.

- Global Employee Engagement Survey (GEES) results and action plans.

- Continuously drive transformation for Maximus as a world-class company in support of CFO organization.

- Overseeing others...