Senior Manager - FP&A Transformation

Job Title: Senior Manager- FP&A Transformation

Job Location: Bangalore, India

The FP&A team in the Global Finance Center (GFC) serves as an extended arm of the Honeywell businesses and supports wing to wing FP&A activities across Sales and Revenue, Budgeting & Cost Management, Working Capital Management and Finance Functional Support. The GFC FP&A team is organized as a Business-Centric model to ensure tight integration with HON businesses. Candidates will get an opportunity to work in a highly challenging & business facing role, where success is determined by their ability to understand dynamic business needs & effectively utilizing their finance & technical skills.

This position will partner extensively with the VP of Business Analytics Transformations, VP Business Analysis and Planning, Senior Director Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) - Global Finance Centre, and Honeywell business FP&A Leaders across the company on the various initiatives such as HOS Gold, Standards Deployment, Direct Access Strategy, Productivity Projects, Data Governance, GFC Strategy etc. The candidate will be the SCRUM Master and manage multiple Transformation projects. This position will be based in Bangalore, India.

- Act as primary interface between SBG's and Honeywell Global Finance Center

- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, review and oversee updating of master project plans. Ensure that plan components are adequately documented how the project will be executed, monitored and controlled. Ensure that the plan adequately covers topics such as Scope Management, Schedule Management, Quality Management, Resource Management, Communications Management, Project Change Management, Risk Management, Procurement Management and others as deemed necessary to manage the project

- Continuously improve project management toolkits and methodologies used within GFC FP&A. Provide expertise and consulting to project managers in the process of project management and in the softer skills of team dynamics, team building and group motivation.

- Provide mentoring, coaching and direction setting to team members and project managers.

- Ensure project team, staff and manager training and development.

- Manage and implement project responsibilities from inception to completion including: cost, benefits, quality, scope, and schedule

- Coordinate with Technology team members to ensure timely completion of fully integrated solution including IT solution

- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques, tools approaches User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games, Jira, Burn -down techniques.

- The candidate will act as Scrum Master for GFC FP&A team and will be the guardian of the process and artefacts with focus on leading teams through continuous improvement.

- He/She will keep the teams focused on their sprint goals while staying connected to their releases, product lines (FP&A standards) and the company's goals.

- Detailed Project Planning and Control, Monitoring Project Status, Managing Project Progress, Providing Status Report

- Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan and managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.

- Resolving cross-functional issues at project level and Managing Projects Issues and escalating when necessary

- Develop and implement risk mitigation plans

- Regularly and effectively communicate project and team status throughout the organization levels on progress, issues, and opportunities

- Deliver project customer satisfaction and productivity commitments

- Establish and maintain business relationships with customers and stakeholders

- Execute and adhere to Phase Gate Review Plans and drive meetings with core project teams and governance committees to review transition progress, training effectiveness, Staffing

- Partner with Cross functional teams in understanding business pain points and arrive at appropriate IT and/or Re-engineering solutions

- Liaise with various teams and Create Work Breakdown Structures, Project Schedules and Project Timelines for the team

- Manage End to End Project Management and Deliver Global Projects based on Platforms

- Effective Project Documentation

- Create business requirements document and business process documentation (As-Is and To-Be)

- Manage Multiple sponsors and large numbers of key stakeholders for the various projects

Additional Skills:

- Minimum 10 years of increasingly responsible experience, with at least five years of managing increasingly complex projects in a technical environment. Able to work effectively and efficiently toward goals in a complex, diverse environment with multiple and changing demands. Known for effective leadership of staff. Passion for client satisfaction.

- Techno-functional background consisting of Finance and IT backgrounds

- Strong understanding of six sigma tools - linkage and usage Working knowledge of MS project to build project plans

- Excellent presentation skills

- Basic understanding of Financial Analysis - Project costing / Cost-Benefit Analysis

- Knowledge of internal & external factors affecting a project for eg: Export compliance

- Ability to drive and maintain adherence to project schedules and budgets

- Excellent interpersonal & competent analytical skills

- Demonstrated impact of leadership ability

- Strong knowledge of MS Office ( Word, Excel, Powerpoint ), MS Project and MS Visio preferable

- Strong team player attitude to complete necessary requirements on time.

- Ability to work through obstacles under challenging circumstances

- Should be able to work any of the shift timings as required by the project ( current timing would be 1.00 pm to 10.00 pm)