Project Manager, Finance Business Intelligence

Job Summary

The Project Manager, Finance Business Intelligence (FBI) will serve as the primary owner of project monitoring and portfolio visibility for the Finance BI team, ensuring that every initiative’s status, risks, and blockers are tracked, current, and clearly communicated to stakeholders and leadership at all times. This role is the organizational backbone of the team’s day-to-day operations: continuously monitoring progress against the Project Tracker and Azure DevOps sprints, proactively surfacing risks and dependencies, and driving issues to resolution before they impact delivery.

Beyond monitoring, the Project Manager partners closely with stakeholders to elicit and document clear, actionable requirements, manage request intake and ServiceNow tickets, and keep the team’s knowledge assets — including the Data Catalog and process documentation — accurate and current. The ideal candidate is highly organized and detail-oriented, with the analytical rigor to translate scattered updates into a clear, reliable picture of where every project stands, and the initiative to unblock progress by coordinating across finance, operations, and data engineering stakeholders.

Job Duties

Project Monitoring & Tracking
Owns day-to-day monitoring of the Finance BI project portfolio, ensuring timelines, milestones, and deliverables are consistently tracked and visible to stakeholders and leadership
Maintains the team’s Project Tracker as the single source of truth, ensuring priorities, statuses, owners, and timelines are accurate and up to date at all times
Provides regular, concise project status updates (e.g., inbox briefs, executive summaries) to the Finance BI Leader and stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and decisions needed
Proactively identifies, escalates, and helps unblock project impediments by coordinating with developers, data engineering, finance, and other cross-functional partners
Monitors dependencies and timelines across concurrent projects to flag conflicts or resourcing risks before they affect delivery
Facilitates communication and collaboration among project team members and stakeholders to ensure a shared understanding of objectives, timelines, and deliverables
Conducts post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and improve future delivery practices
Business Analysis & Requirements
Partners with business stakeholders to elicit, define, and document clear technical and functional requirements for Finance BI initiatives
Translates business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and work items suitable for development in Azure DevOps
Validates delivered solutions against documented requirements and supports user acceptance testing (UAT)
Request Intake & Sprint Management
Owns and manages the request intake process, triaging incoming work requests, gathering necessary details, and routing them appropriately
Manages and maintains DevOps sprints, including backlog grooming, sprint planning support, work item hygiene, and tracking sprint progress against commitments
Manages incoming ServiceNow requests related to Finance BI, ensuring tickets are triaged, assigned, updated, and closed in a timely manner
Monitors and reports on intake volume, throughput, and aging items to help the team prioritize effectively
Manages user access requests for Finance BI reports, workspaces, and related tools, ensuring requests are properly documented, approved, assigned, and completed in accordance with data security and governance requirements
Documentation & Knowledge Management
Ensures project and process documentation is created, maintained, and kept current throughout each project’s lifecycle
Keeps the team’s Data Catalog up to date, ensuring data sources, definitions, and ownership information remain accurate and accessible
Maintains training materials, business dictionaries, and other knowledge repositories to support team onboarding and stakeholder self-service
Champions an ownership model and process-driven approach to documentation, rather than ad hoc updates
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Education:
Bachelor’s degree, required; focus in Finance, Information Systems, or Business, preferred
Experience:
Five (5) to eight (8) years of experience as a project manager, business analyst, project coordinator, or similar role, with demonstrated experience monitoring and reporting on project portfolios, required
Experience managing project intake, backlogs, or sprints using Azure DevOps or a similar work-tracking tool, required
Experience working with ITSM/ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, preferred
Experience working in finance, accounting, or a professional services environment, preferred
License/Certifications:
Project Management Professional (PMP)® or CAPM, preferred
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or similar business analysis certification, preferred
Scrum Master or Agile Certified Practitioner, preferred
Software:
Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, required
Proficient with Azure DevOps (Boards/Sprints) and ServiceNow, or similar project/ITSM tools, required
Familiarity with Power BI or other business intelligence/reporting tools, preferred
Other Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
High level of curiosity and eagerness to learn
Ability to think critically to solve problems and identify practical solutions to unblock projects
Demonstrates attention to detail while also understanding the big picture
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate technical topics for non-technical audiences
Excellent collaboration and facilitation skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
Strong knowledge of project management principles and business analysis techniques
Strong organizational skills, specifically the ability to manage multiple requests and deadlines with a focus on details
Self-motivated, process-oriented, and passionate about documentation, data stewardship, and continuous improvement
Ability to successfully interact with professionals and stakeholders at all levels
Use of care with financial data by ensuring accurate numbers while protecting sensitive data
Uses AI tools responsibly and ethically in support of team deliverables
Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $105,000 - $120,000
Maryland Range: $105,000 - $120,000
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $105,000 - $120,000

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