Senior Project Manager (Remote)

• →Partner with business sponsors and cross-functional leaders to align priorities, establish governance, and define delivery strategies.
• →Lead discovery of current-state business and accounting processes, identifying requirements, gaps, dependencies, and future-state needs.
• →Coordinate functional teams to define, prepare for, and implement future-state processes and operational changes.
• →Coordinate financial systems and business process integration, working with accountable technology and functional experts to support readiness and transition.
• →Lead end-to-end delivery, defining measurable success criteria and tailoring project management practices to each initiative while managing scope, milestones, dependencies, ownership, risks, issues, and changes.
• →Provide senior leaders with actionable visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
• →Use data and stakeholder feedback to reassess priorities, evaluate trade-offs, remove barriers, and drive resolution or timely escalation.
• →Coordinate cross-functional business readiness, stabilization, and handoff to operational owners.

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or a business field
• PMP Certification preferred
• 5+ years of progressive project management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Working knowledge of project governance, methodologies, and enterprise technologies to plan and coordinate effectively.
• Oracle or comparable enterprise financial systems integration experience preferred.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional business changes or integrations; Finance and Accounting process migration experience preferred.
• Ability to bridge business needs and technical execution across functional teams.
• Strong executive communication and influence, including presenting decisions, recommendations, and trade-offs.
• Strong financial and business acumen
• Connect strategic objectives to execution, bringing structure to ambiguity and adapting to changing priorities.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex, cross-functional projects using sound judgment and established governance practices.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and constructively challenge assumptions without direct authority.

First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).

First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.