Director, Project Management Job Listing at Prudential in Hartford, CT

Insurance, Finance

Prudential Financial, Inc. is a multi-national financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, and asset management. For more information, please visit www.prudential.com.
 
Prudential Retirement is a market leader in providing retirement plan solutions to public, private, and non-profit organizations. Meeting the needs of over 3.6 million participants and annuitants, Prudential Retirement has $239 billion in retirement account values as of June 30, 2012. The Retirement Finance function, located in Hartford, CT, Woodbridge, NJ, and Scranton, PA, is responsible for accounting controls, financial reporting, planning and analysis as well as financial system and product development support for the Retirement business.
 
The Director, Finance Project Management position will lead the Dedicated Continuous Improvement Team within Retirement Finance. The position will focus on identifying efficiencies and improving effectiveness across Retirement Finance through automation, technology and continuous improvement. The position will seek to eliminate redundancies and non-value add processes as well as increase automation and establish efficiency metrics for senior leaders. The position will have significant interaction with the Finance senior leadership team and report directly to the VP, Financial Product Management. This position will be located in Hartford, CT.
 
The responsibilities of the position will include:

• Champion innovation and automation within Finance; Lead key long term (12+ month) Management Reporting Solutions Initiative, along with a migration to a Continuous Improvement environment


• Institute and manage a centralized project prioritization and accountability framework


• Facilitate close partnerships between Finance and Corporate Financial Technology and Retirement Technology teams to utilize and leverage expert resources and tools.


• Create a Finance-wide Capacity Planning Model


• Develop and track efficiency metrics across Finance groups


• Lead Finance enhancements and initiatives


• Provide guidance, training, and development opportunities to colleagues across Finance

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or related field
• Project Management experience required
• Prudential Retirement Finance - Job Code 12526
• Six-Sigma or Lean certification required, or equivalent Process Improvement Experience
• Experience with Financial Systems required
• Database Architecture experience preferred
• Expert in Microsoft data applications, particularly Excel and Access
• Highly motivated and creative problem solver; able to thrive in a results oriented environment
• Ability to effectively prioritize competing demands, to communicate complex issues in a clear succinct way to peers and senior executives, and to partner effectively with Retirement business units and Prudential Corporate areas
• Strong leadership skills - ability to motivate and lead a cross-functional team where some members will not have a direct reporting relationship
• Demonstrated ability to succeed and thrive in highly-matrixed environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to work overtime during peak periods