Project Manager, TAP Onvio

Company: Thomson Reuters
Location: Ann Arbor
Posted on: January 12, 2022

Job Description:

Tax and Accounting Professionals is looking for a driven and collaborative Project Manager to join the Onvio Accelerator Village. In this Project Manager role, through an Agile approach, you will be responsible for the success of complex implementation and technical projects from start to finish, including managing the projects' planning, design, monitoring and closure.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Project Manager you will:

• Define, scope, initiate and manage large complex and business critical areas of project work while supporting the Onvio Village.
  
• Lead the definition, delivery and deployment phases of the Thomson Reuters Project Process, including liaison with the budget holder.
  
• Initiate and managing multiple large projects in parallel, based in multiple locations and with multiple dependencies in & out, with no supervision.
  
• Analyze capacity planning across projects. Uses influence to eliminate bottlenecks and potential resource alignment problems.
  
• Deliver projects to support Thomson Reuters' ability to achieve revenue targets in the Tax and Accounting Professionals segment.
  
• Manage programs within standard project management methodologies to time, quality and budget.
  
• Work across different functions to achieve goals - managing through conflicting functional and personal priorities and varying working (cultural) practices to ensure overall team goals are achieved.
  
  About You
  
  You're a fit for the role of Project Manager if you have:
  
  • Excellent interpersonal and written communications skills. This includes the ability to effectively communicate and build strong relationships with various functional leaders in a matrixed organization, as well as at an executive level.
    
  • Experience operating within an Agile team and familiarity with project management tools and best practices.
    
  • Proven flexibility and ability to solve problems creatively.
    
  • Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle that are completed according to outlined scope and timeline.
    
  • Familiarity with Thomson Reuters' suite of tax and accounting products, as well as familiarity with the accounting industry (practical and applied knowledge of accounting firms' needs from a process and software perspective) is a plus.
    
    What's in it For You
    
    At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:
    
    • Compensation: Base salary, plus yearly bonus dependent upon your performance
    • Learning & Development: On-the-job coaching & learning, leadership capability development, Harvard Management courses, key talent programs, tuition reimbursement
    • Benefits: Flexibility, Comprehensive health coverage with benefits that are effective day one
    • Perks: Social events & activities, generous vacation package plus 2 paid volunteer workdays a year
      Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
      
      We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
      
      Accessibility
      
      As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
      
      We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
      
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