Finance Project Manager

**Who we are**

At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices around the world or from home, our incredible team of 2,700 Criteos collaborates to develop an open and inclusive environment. We aim to create a place where people can grow and learn from each other while having a meaningful impact. We work together to achieve our goals, push boundaries, and share successes. All of this supports us in our mission to power the world’s marketers with trusted and impactful advertising.

The Finance Project Office mission is to support Criteo by delivering exciting and ambitious projects identified as part of the roadmap. This roadmap consists of big transversal projects and programs requiring cross functional and cross department coordination such as new system implementation, merger & acquisition, organization and process optimization, new product launch, and any other transformation project.

The Finance Project Manager role is an amazing opportunity to contribute to Criteo growth by managing directly or supporting program managers in managing transversal, strategic, operational, and impactful projects.

**What You will do**:
Depending on the size of the projects, the Finance Project Manager will have the responsibility to drive directly or support a program manager in driving strategic, transversal and operational projects from scoping to day-to-day management of the project and until successful delivery. It includes:

- Deliver projects on time, within budget, quality standards, and to the satisfaction of our internal clients while maximizing business benefits.
- Drive responsibilities across various Commercial, Finance and IT stakeholders to identify, track, manage and mitigate risks, issues, and roadblocks.
- Drive key decisions by defining and implementing key performance indicators and through timely and consistent reporting.
- Drive and manage a complex and transversal project portfolio of projects (including resources and financials tracking) to determine which projects should be undertaken, why, when and how.
- Prepare and formalize estimates and a detailed project plan for all phases of the project.
- Report on project success criteria results and metrics.
- Ensure functional and technical end-to-end transversality for projects, data, processes, technology and resources.
- Ensure coordination across multiple teams and projects to understand dependencies, cumulative impacts and highest level of collaboration and alignment.
- Ensure change management plans are developed, socialized and consistently measured to deliver projects expected benefits and adoption.
- Stays abreast of project management and change management trends and leading practices to enable strategic decisions.
- Ensure project scoping and formalize the strategic and operational project recommendations and implementation plans with clear milestones, objectives and timeline.
- Ensure day-to-day management of the project and track progress against plan
- Work closely and create trusted relationship with project stakeholders and ensure alignment and understanding of project objectives among the project team
- Identify risks and manage issues that could arise and ensure proper monitoring and reporting to project Sponsor and key stakeholders
- Develop a clear and complete Adoption plan to monitor and support the performance post-go live, aligned to other streams.

**Who you are**:

- Background:
Business/management or engineering school

7+ years of successful experience in a strategy / management consulting firm or in a similar role in a fast-moving environment
- Hard skills:
Fluent English spoken and written (you will be working in English)

Excellent Project management skills, organization and time management

Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools

Solid knowledge of enterprise operational and financial processes

Strong Excel / PowerPoint skills
- Soft skills:
Dynamic profile with drive, pro-activity and strong interpersonal skills

Team player and willingness to learn

Exceptional communication and presentation skills and ability to influence stakeholders

Able to work effectively across functions/teams

Excellent active listening skills

Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges

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At Criteo, we believe the future is wide open when it includes everyone. We are committed to creating an environment where all Criteos feel a sense of belonging. We nourish our diversity by listening to all cultures within Criteo - and there are many. We are proud to be a global team and conscious that it takes people with different perspectives, thoughts and cultures to succeed. We want you to come as you are so we can succeed together.

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