Project Manager, G&A Applications F/M
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Job description
The Company LumApps is already one of France's largest SaaS success stories. Now, we are shifting gears to accelerate the transformation of the company, to optimize the tooling & process to ensure our successful growth is continuing. To do so, we are looking for a Senior Project Manager, G&A Application, which will be central to LumApps' continued global scaling, directly enabling efficient operations across all G&A functions to support our next phase of growth. The Position Within the IT G&A team, part of the CFO office, the Senior Project Manager for G&A Applications leads technology initiatives that support General & Administrative (G&A) functions- including HR, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and Corporate Operations. This role will lead strategic projects for the group like ERP unification, or an EPM implementation, overseeing a cross functional team to deliver within scope, agreed upon quality, and within time and cost constraints. These factors may be clearly defined or may require dynamic change management to deliver business value. Within our current tech stack, we use solutions like NetSuite, SAP by Design, ChargeBee, Lucca, Spendesk, Docusign, … This role will partner closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to drive effective planning, execution, and adoption of the G&A systems, and potentially other enterprise applications and process improvements. The ideal candidate is a structured, proactive leader with deep experience managing cross-functional projects, strong business acumen, and a passion for enabling scalable, efficient operations.
Missions
- Project definition & planning: Support functional team to scope their project taking into account all potential stakeholders
- Support creation of and review project plans with functional teams to determine project: Key objectives & deliverables, Milestones Risk to mitigated Staff needs,Task allocation Project time frame
- Establish work plans and effort for project activities, iterations or phases
- Review/approve the work plan of an external service provider or consultancy contracted to execute projects
- Work with line managers to identify project personnel, and assign their duties and responsibilities
- Project execution Direct and coordinate the activities of project personnel to ensure project goals and success criteria are met, in schedule & budget
- Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff on project deliverables and define the work plan
- Identify and track risks and mitigation plans
- Implement a project communication plan, to ensure each level of the organization, receive adequate level of information regularly
- Project processes continuous improvement
- Act as a coach to Business Process Owners, Key Relays, Junior IT G&A team members, and others who need assistance and advice regarding project management practices
- Benchmark project management performance continuously to identify the potential for improvements in project management.
Requirements
- Education Master Degree in information systems, engineering, or business administration
- Project management certification will be a plus.
- Experience :
- Seven or more years of IT experience, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving
- Five to seven years of successfully managing complex and risky G&A projects, with at least 4 years of management of financial projects
- Experience leading ERP implementations Experience in leading cross functional & international teams
- Experience with end-to-end technical deployments to multiple audiences across an organization
- Ideally experience in rapidly growing SaaS companies.
- Knowledge and Skills :
- Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence
- Ability to understand multiple different functional needs and IT requirements, to build the bridge between them, to ensure all we found the most adequate scalable solution to answer the needs, within the logic that answering 80% of all teams needs in a scalable & standard way is way more valuable than answering 100% of each needs with customized solutions
- Ability to adapt to new circumstances in a changing business environment
- Expertise in setting and managing customer expectations, and effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment in which this role may not directly control resources
- Knowledge of project management methodology and experience or familiarity with major, defined program management approaches (for example, that of the Project Management Institute and Agile approaches)
- Good understanding of current and emerging technologies such as AI and of how other enterprises are using them to drive business
- Fluent in French and English.
