Project Manager Global Statutory Reporting

Job Description

Description

Workiva started with an idea: to make complex collaboration easy. Wdesk is an all-in-one platform that simplifies complex collaboration while keeping data in sync, thus reducing risk. Thousands of organizations, including over 75% of the 500 largest U.S. corporations by total revenue, use Wdesk.

The Global Statutory Reporting Project Manager will play a key role in Workiva’s international financial reporting expansion. As Project Manager, you will simultaneously plan, manage, and execute multiple customer projects and Wdesk implementation projects. He/she will work directly with the customer and will be their main point of contact throughout the onboarding and implementation phases. Internally at Workiva, he/she will partner with Workiva’s international teams across Customer Success Managers, Solution Architects, Sales and Development to help customers achieve their business goals.

What You’ll Do:

Project Management Skills:

• Responsible for the project from inception to completion. True end-to-end project management.
• Oversees the project schedule, budget, timeline, and scope to ensure project goals are being met.
• Leads the project team and is responsible for holding the team accountable to timelines, budget, deliverables, and scope.
• Work closely with internal Stakeholder teams (may be Client Services, Customer Success, Professional services etc) and Workiva management to act as an ambassador and advocate on behalf of the customer and/or partner.
• Work with cross-functional teams such as sales, solutions architects, product development, and client services to ensure project goals and milestones are being met.
• Ability to set priorities, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Researches the proper budget for a given project, ensures the team stays within budget, and speaks to each budgeted expense.
• Has the authority to readjust the budget as needed, within scope.

Communication Skills:

• Act as the point of contact person for internal stakeholders and clients at the Executive level throughout the duration of the project.
• Stays in constant contact with the customer to ensure project is on track and communicates progress on a consistent basis.
• Consults with stakeholders when project execution does not fall within the budget, timeline, or scope to ensure the project stays within budget, on time, and within scope.
• Communicates any potential delays and estimated delivery dates to all stakeholders.

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ Years of experience as Project Manager, handling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Customer-facing experience required.
• The ability to build standard project management tools.
• Experience with Waterfall project methodology.
• The ability to travel up to 50% to customer sites for project kick-offs and/or project follow through.
• Proven experience building relationships and influencing people to meet project objectives in a timely and cost-saving manner.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity working within the Software and/or Technology field.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

Where you’ll work:

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity where you can truly impact the future of an innovative company? If so, this is it! Rapidly growing throughout Europe, we are searching for talented and driven people that can help us build our future at Workiva!

We firmly believe our people are our greatest assets, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to not only make a difference, but BE the difference. Employees at Workiva develop and provide cutting-edge solutions and services to the business market. We hire smart, talented people with a wide range of skills who are hungry to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems. Workiva offers a creative culture and open-minded leadership. We want you to thrive, which is why we provide you with perks like:

• Vacation time off (PTO): Total PTO is comprised of 25 day, plus 8 public holidays and New Years Eve.
• Cycle to Work plan: Workiva provides the Cycle to Work facility which allows you to purchase a bike up to the value of £1,000 and pay for this via a salary-sacrifice arrangement.
• Volunteer time off (VTO): All regular full-time Workiva employees received eight hours of VTO to use each calendar year. VTO can be used for time spent volunteering for community events and activities that take place during the normal work day. VTO does not carry over from year to year and will not be paid out if unused. VTO must be requested and recorded in the company's timekeeping system.
• Paid Health Insurance: Workiva will pay 100% of the Private Medical and Dental Insurance premiums in respect of your membership and you may add family members to the plan with 50% of the cost for these members.
• Workiva Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) Grants: Workiva provides RSUs to all regular full-time employees upon employment.
• Pension: Workiva offers an industry competitive UK based pension plan.

Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.