CoStar

Lead Project Manager, Finance Transformation

Job Description

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 Finance department is looking for a Project Manager, with extensive process improvement and Financial Business Systems project experience, to drive and manage the transformation projects of the company’s Order to Cash (O2C), Procure to Pay (P2P), and Record to Report (R2R) processes. These efforts will involve a strong focus on enhancing the customer experience and process re-engineering, enabling CoStar Group’s global expansion. The role will be in CoStar’s headquarters in Arlington, VA and will report to the Sr. Director, Finance Transformation.

This individual will work with business and technical teams in Finance, IT, and Product to standardize, modernize, digitize, and deploy Global ERP processes. The ideal candidate will have experience operating in a public, multinational organization on large, complex financial change initiatives and have proven competency in process improvement methodologies and technical project experience. This individual will identify process improvements opportunities, using metrics, and must be comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.

The position’s Primary Job Duties would involve:

• Manage day to day operational aspects of multiple simultaneous finance transformation projects
• Develop a strong understanding of CoStar’s O2C, P2P, and R2R financial systems and existing business processes
• Participate in Process mapping and process improvement for all processes
• Coordinate development with multiple internal and external technical teams
• Create and maintain current and complete scope documents, 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
• Control project scope with an effective change management process
• Escalate issues internally and externally proactively as needed
• Coordinate project deliverables based upon internal resource availability

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, information systems, or a related field 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
• Proven competency with multiple project management methodologies – Waterfall, Agile, Scrum
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Bachelor's or Advanced degree in IT, Accounting, or other business system related discipline.
• 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, and PowerPoint)

What’s in it for you?

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll 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, please note that CoStar is not able to 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