Job Title: Finance Project Manager
Location: San Diego 
Contract length: 6-month contract
Schedule: 40/hrs week 
Pay: $30-36/hr/hr

Required Qualifications 

• Minimum 2 years of related experience
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Smartsheet

• Experience supporting projects from idea phase through implementation
• Ability to develop project plans/schedules and track milestones for business-focused initiatives
• Experience identifying critical paths, surfacing roadblocks, and proposing creative solutions
• Experience supporting Business Owners to ensure clear prioritization and alignment
• Experience managing risks, anticipating issues, and executing corrective actions
• Working knowledge across a variety of business processes
• Proven ability to cultivate strong stakeholder relationships and communicate effectively
• Experience managing cross-project dependencies and aligning initiatives
• Ability to support and recommend project management best practices to mature the Finance PMO
• Experience supporting integrated, global teams across multiple geographies
• Experience managing finance-domain projects
• Understanding of Agile project management practices

This role is covering a leave for an existing worker and sits within the Finance PMO, reporting to the Senior Project Manager, Finance PMO. The Project Coordinator will support key Finance initiatives by coordinating project activities, tracking progress, and ensuring adherence to established project management governance and processes.

This is a business-focused role, supporting accountability of business team tasks rather than leading technical teams. The ideal candidate brings strong soft skills, enthusiasm, initiative, and a collaborative mindset, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic, global environment.

In this role, you will help manage key Finance projects and play a critical supporting role across the Finance organization. Project Coordinator responsibilities include coordinating all aspects of projects, assisting with the development of work plans, tracking task status, maintaining RAID logs, and summarizing project progress.

You will assist in the preparation of portfolio, program, and project dashboards to ensure stakeholders remain informed and aligned. The role requires strong relationship management and collaboration across the PMO, working with global, cross-functional teams.

The successful candidate must be able to understand and articulate established project management governance, processes, and templates, utilizing Smartsheet to ensure strategic alignment and successful execution. Excellent communication skills and experience supporting project managers are essential.
 

• Perform project support from initiation through delivery using established Smartsheet toolkits and processes
• Coordinate and support cross-functional teams through meetings, status updates, and progress measurement
• Track schedules, milestones, dependencies, budgets, risks, and issues to ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope
• Maintain RAID logs and surface risks, roadblocks, and mitigation plans
• Support and participate in the development of project plan templates, including:
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Communications planning
  • Change impact assessments
• Develop and support project management governance, processes, and toolkits using Smartsheet
• Contribute to and review key workstream deliverables
• Advise workstream leads and stakeholders on implementation priorities using Smartsheet-based templates
• Participate in all Finance PMO meetings and adhere to approved governance and delivery disciplines
• Facilitate and document lessons learned and best practices throughout project lifecycles
• Build and maintain strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships
• Maintain enthusiasm, energy, and focus in a fast-paced and evolving environment