Project Manager, Financial Business Systems

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Job Description

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CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. 

Role Description

The Global Financial Systems group is looking for a Project Manager, with extensive SaaS ERP & software implementation experience, to drive the transformation of the company’s financial processes. These efforts will include a broad range of implementation projects and a broad scope of position responsibilities, enabling CoStar Group’s global expansion. The position is located in the Washington DC office and reports to the Senior Director, Global Financial Systems.

The Project Manager will work closely with business owners and leads, Oracle functional and technical team members, and other IT and business management to plan and execute projects that standardize, modernize, digitize, and deploy Oracle-based financial processes and capabilities globally.

The ideal candidate will have experience operating in a large, public, multi-national organization on large, complex, and transformational projects associated with the CoStar global roll-out of Oracle and the integration of acquisitions. The role will apply their strong technical project experience and leadership to complete the planning, facilitate the implementation, and drive to completion these critical business projects, in a multi-project, multi-location environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage day to day operational aspects of multiple simultaneous finance transformation projects
• Develop a strong understanding of CoStar’s O2C financial systems and existing business processes
• Participate in the development and documentation of functional requirements
• Coordinate and facilitate daily (or as needed) project status reviews for cross-team information sharing, status updates, sprint task completions.
• Create and maintain current, complete project plans, project schedules, action trackers, issue logs, progress reports, and other project documents/artifacts in appropriate systems
• Drive internal and external activities needed to meet the dates defined in the project schedule
• Produce presentation materials, coordinate and lead status calls and executive status meetings
• Deliver projects on time, on budget, and within scope
• Prevent or minimize delays by keeping all stakeholders informed of progress
• Identify, manage, and communicate project risks
• Develop, administer, and control project scope, supported with an effective change management process
• Secure various approvals and ensure the collection and retention of project artifacts
• Escalate issues internally and externally proactively as needed
• Coordinate project deliverables based upon internal resource availability

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit University or College. 
• A track record of commitment to prior employers.
• 5+ years of experience with financial business transformation process projects.
• 5+ years of experience as Project Manager specifically on accounting system or information system projects (i..e. SaaS ERP.)
• Proven competency with multiple project management methodologies – Waterfall, Agile, Scrum.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Organized thinker and excellent communicator, verbal and in writing.
• Work successfully with little direct supervision, self-driven, and initiative taker.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Oracle ERP.
• Lean Six Sigma certification.
• Project management certification (PMP or CAPM).
• Demonstrated ability to effectively direct/coordinate with work external consultants and vendors.
• Experience operating in an IT Controls / SOX environment.
• Meticulous about documentation and record-keeping.
• Working knowledge of MS Office applications (Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and OneDrive) and JIRA.

 What is in it for you?  

When you join CoStar Group, you will experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed. 

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program. 

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to): 

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug 
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance 
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family 
• Commuter and parking benefits 
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions 
• Employee stock purchase plan 
• Paid time off 
• Tuition reimbursement 
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent) 
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups 
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks 

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, CoStar Group cannot provide visa sponsorship for this position. 

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing