Job ID: NY-SAP (90091004)
SAP PM with S/4 HANA, Consumer Mortgage Loans, Treasury, FI/CO, SRM, HCM, MS Project/SharePoint, O365, budgeting and public/housing finance experience
Location: New York NY (NYSHCR)
Duration: 9-21 months
Qualifications
•5 years of experience as a Project Manager leading transformative, impactful initiatives with large IT development components; ERP experience necessary.
•4+ years of experience as a business analyst
•Some experience as a developer, a plus
•SAP certifications, a plus
•Microsoft Project and SharePoint O365 proficiency required
•Interest and experience in public finance, particularly affordable housing finance
•Prior experience in government is beneficial, but not required
Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills and Ability:
•A minimum of 5 years’ experience implementing SAP or other ERP systems
•Excellent communication and analytical skills
•Ability to manage a budget effectively, across multiple concurrent builds
•Ability to quickly learn organizational structure, business strategies and processes
•Ability to impart structure to ambiguity, to create use cases out of heterogeneous universes, to devise appropriate solutions, responses, and approaches
•Proven ability to lead multiple complex workstreams in a fast-paced environment
•Self-motivated and comfortable with initial ambiguity; resourceful enough to drive towards clarity by evaluating the solutions landscape
•Ability to problem solve independently by diagnosing problems, gathering requirements for resolution and engaging the right stakeholders to determine solutions
•Comfortable with extending into activity areas adjacent to project management (writ narrow), including business analysis, working towards progress and objectives and timeframes to be met
•Knowledge of change management best practices
•Financial acumen and ability to manage a budget
•Ability to collaborate cross functionally with various employees
•Strong training and presentation skills
•Empathy, patience and ability to serve internal customers
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•Attention to detail
•Experience managing enterprise-wide projects with a geographically diverse implementation team
Overview
NYSHCR, the consortium of New York State housing agencies, is seeking a highly qualified and experienced Project Manager to join our team to help implement an integrated solution composed of a COTS front-office system for its (1) grant making for single-family housing; (2) multifamily housing finance and (3) multifamily asset management/compliance business lines and an ERP for back-office functionality (SAP S/4 HANA). The back-office functionality uses SAP’s Consumer Mortgage Loans, Treasury, Financial Controlling and Accounting, Supplier Relationship Management and Human Capital Management modules.
The position will work to ensure that project is delivered according to a re-planned schedule, scope and budget using best practice project management tools for SAP implementations, including: the business process master list (BPML); traceability to requirements; project schedule or work breakdown structure using Microsoft Project; and budgeting tools including expenditure to date and forecast budget.
The Project Manager will help meet additional business objectives, including continual improvement of business processes (in conjunction with a team of business analysts using lean methods) and further developing business solutions using modular / reusable functionality to support common needs across the enterprise, such as application intake, program management, invoicing and reporting, and system integration with multiple actors outside the organization. The Project Manager will be responsible for managing the lifecycle of the remaining phases of the project, currently in its final round of integration testing and preparation for cutover and go-live.
The Project Manager will lead the team and help them both understand and abide by project management best practices: proactive risk identification and management as well as a keen eye for identifying and documenting the critical path to ensuring successful execution. The Project Manager will diagnose problems quickly and devise viable solutions, seeing trends or gaps in development that lie beyond the by-the-book approaches and will propose and implement solutions to address root causes. On a day-to-day basis, the team will use SharePoint in Office 365 as a repository for documentation. The Project Manager should also help execute the shift from old ways of working to collaboration tools like Slack in addition to others.