Associate Project Manager

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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Protection Starts with People.  Proofpoint.

The Role and the Team

This is a great opportunity for a Project Manager to join Proofpoint and help with our Core Financial initiatives.  You will have the opportunity to enhance procedures and make new ones to improve over-all processes. You will regularly communicate with cross-functional team members to understand business needs and triage requirements to meet milestones. The Project Manager will have the ability to "think big", be creative and have fun while ensuring change is adopted over the long term.

Your day-to-day:

• Drive alignment and coordination of Core Financial (Accounts Receivable, Cash Applications & Reporting, Accounts Payable, T&E, Tax, Financial Close Management & Reporting) initiatives
• The PM will help to optimize the Core Financial project prioritization process to ensure team bandwidth is focused on the key business deliverables
•   Work with functional leaders to ensure the appropriate Core Team resources are committed to the projects and contribute to required performance levels
• Leads program planning process ensuring requirements are clear and driven by customer need and experience
• Leads cross-functional teams through problem resolution including root cause analysis and corrective action
•   Defines, delegates, and evaluates the roles, responsibilities, goals and deliverables for assigned projects
• Communicates program updates to functional management and leadership
• Drive the Change Management effort, including the change impact analysis and communications
• Think big! Be creative. Find unconventional ways to ensure change is adopted over the long term.

What you bring to the team:

• 3+ years of project management experience with a proven ability to lead and deliver on strategic and tactical business objectives
• Experience working in a SaaS company preferred
• Working experience in the Core Financial process area
• Knowledge of ERP’s, PowerBI/Business Intelligence experience a plus
• Self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Demonstrates excellence in both oral and written communication, in cross functional, and cross-cultural environment
• Ability to interact with executive leadership, highlight issues and provide options and solutions for resolution
• Fosters collaboration among team members
• Experience in business process improvement
• Ability to build trusting relationships, credibility, and strong communications skills to influence stakeholder, connect partners to improve project decision-making, which drives business value
• Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate meetings where you will articulate complex concepts
• Change Oriented – works effectively in the face of ambiguity, shifting priorities, and rapid change. Maintains a positive outlook in difficult situations

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

All other cities and states excluding those listed above: