Booking Holdings Romania - Project Manager in Bucuresti

About usBooking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars. Job SummaryBooking Holdings is currently undergoing a Global Finance Transformation that will drive effective finance support for business management, promote strong governance and control in the organisation, and have a world-class finance organisation in terms of execution and efficiency. This role will be responsible for project management, directly impacting the delivery and execution of various strategic programs and solution deployments underpinning this transformation, by ensuring that projects are clearly defined (scope, time, cost, and resources), tracked and controlled through their lifecycle, and appropriately reported and communicated per existing governance processes. Key Responsibilities Drives delivery and execution of select projects/ work streams, including both longer term global initiatives and shorter-term process improvements.Contributes to the Project scoping and planning by documenting project goals, requirements, KPIs, roadmap and main deliverables, tracks completion of project milestones and maintains project artifacts.Interacts with project sponsors, project stakeholders and multiple business and technical teams to define and document requirements, key design decisions and complex features.Manages project Actions, Risks, Issues and Dependencies, including appropriate escalations and anticipates bottlenecks while balancing business needs with technical constraintsWorks with the Organisational Change Management team to ensure appropriate communication planning, stakeholder analysis, and change management activities.Creates, maintains and disseminates project information, project issues and status to stakeholders, in a concise, accurate, and professional manner.Adheres to and helps improve internal governance and program management standards across the Enterprise Program Management Office. Requirements Bachelor's degree5-8 years of experience working as program or project manager on significant projects with global reachPMP or related certifications preferredExperience leading global strategic initiatives, within a shared services environment undergoing financial transformationUnderstands and can execute initiatives using the PMBOK framework to move an initiative efficiently through a project lifecycleExperience leading technical requirements gathering using SDLC preferredUnderstanding of Accounting Practices and Standards such as GAAP and IFRSExperience with SaaS solutions Financial SystemsKnowledge of P2P, R2R, and O2C business processesAbility to apply structured problem solving methods to address issues and drive root causeSkilled communicator and proven relationship builder, able to operate within a multitude of formal and informal networks while managing the competing interests of varied stakeholdersAbility to work successfully with consulting teams and strategic partners to maximise value and accelerate changeExperience operating in, and driving alignment and consensus in a complex and matrix environmentExperience working with global teams, capable of bringing together stakeholders, to align requirements and drive improvementsProven ability to interact with and influence peers and senior management in a complex, geographically dispersed organisationSelf-directed, dynamic and customer-centric change-agent who thrives in a challenging and changing environmentPre-Employment Screening:If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the open position at Booking.