Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Why GM Financial?

GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America, and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses.

At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.

This position will be posted until filled.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Serves as a project manager for high-priority projects, applying the enterprise GPPM (Global Project Portfolio Management) processes and procedures. These large projects require oversight of multiple projects or subprojects with their respective project managers as well as managing strategic stakeholders including C-level sponsors.
• Leads the execution of the project within best practices of Agile development fostering incremental delivery, adherence to best practices in Agile related to governance and monitoring, foster complex cross-collaboration amongst functional teams, and actively manage risks and issues within the project.
• Fosters and champions an environment that promotes trust, self-development, continuous improvement, innovation and quality outcomes.
• Ensures a consistent level of quality, accuracy, compliance with GPPM standards, regulations, and internal controls, including:
• Drive Accountability
• Facilitate Conflict Resolution
• Ensure Effective Communication
• Time Management
• Budget Management
• Quality Management of Stakeholder Management
• Resource Management
• Scope & Supplier Management
• Issues and Risks Management
• Document Control
• Support Change Management to build and maintain the Agile-at-scale competence across the IO PMO portfolio
• Leads the development of project requirements and scope; establishes appropriate metrics for measuring successful delivery of the projects.
• Engages with project teams, business partners and stakeholders frequently on the status of key initiatives with respect to scope, schedule, cost, and resources; presents RAID logs.
• Coaches and counsels' members of cross-functional teams to accomplish project goals, meet deadlines, and resolve technical/operational issues.
• Identify and coordinate program critical path changes throughout projects
• Business Alignment – Assess the fit and identify gaps between business needs and processes with the proposed solution
  

Qualifications

What makes You an ideal candidate?

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent is a must.
• Project implementation with proven track record is a must (5Y+)
• Experience within the finance industry is a plus (Banking, insurance, financial services, captive financing or related).
• English language skills (Conversational Spanish -for Brazil- or Portuguese -for Mexico- are a plus
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

• Solid understanding of the overall business and corporate objectives and works under broad project direction with the ability to self-define specific tasks
• Excels at administering and coordinating groups of individuals by promoting teamwork, delegating tasks, resolving conflict and setting goals
• Communicates effectively at all levels in written correspondence and in live settings utilizing relevant presentation tools and techniques
• Experience using Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and hybrid methodologies
• Ability to stay on task by managing time and prioritizing responsibilities to maximize productivity and minimize distractions in key project areas
• Manages risks by predicting and creating solutions to issues before they arise
• Understanding of basic accounting principles to ensure projects remain within budgetary parameters
• Takes a hands-on approach to project work and is adaptable in terms of style and activities undertaken
• Creating and delivering effective presentations
• Comprehensive PC based tools knowledge (particularly Planview Workfront, Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Experience with business case preparation, cost benefit analysis and project execution
• Advanced knowledge and experience with PPM software tool; Planview experience preferred
• Maintains awareness of industry trends, practices, techniques and emerging technologies related to the project management discipline.
  
  

What We Offer

At GM Financial we want you to be the most authentic version of yourself. We take care of your work-life balance by programming wellness and integration activities, where you will strengthen your relationships with peers and contribute towards the development and wellbeing of your community, while providing you with a competitive salary and benefits.

Some of our global benefits include Extended Maternity & Paternity Leaves, Personal Days & Community Investment hours. Show more Show less