Signet Jewelers Corporate

Signet Jewelers Corporate

Finance Project Manager - Fiscal Governance & Controls

Support Center - Akron, OH · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
Project ManagementJiraFinancial ModelingAccountingForecastingBudgetingExcelSAPProcess ImprovementVendor ManagementHRISLeadershipCommunicationPublic SpeakingSharePointVariance Analysis

About the role

  • This position reports to the Director of Portfolio Management, Unified Commerce Solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development, maintenance, and delivery of accurate capital and expense forecasts, budgets, accruals, and cash flow projections across assigned initiatives, with a target of maintaining portfolio forecast accuracy of 95% or greater.
  • Establish strong partnerships with Project Managers, Delivery Leads, and leadership to ensure forecasting, resource management, and estimates-to-actuals are treated as living, continuously managed disciplines rather than periodic reporting activities.
  • Drive disciplined financial governance by monitoring budget-to-actual performance, identifying and explaining variances, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring timely decisions and escalations to leadership.
  • Create and maintain executive dashboards, financial models, and portfolio-level reports that provide clear visibility into forecasts, actuals, resource utilization, contingency usage, and funding requirements.
  • Develop and maintain the portfolio Financial Governance SharePoint site and related tools to centralize reporting, governance artifacts, metrics, and actionable insights.
  • Conduct weekly audits of internal labor reporting and validate resource allocations in partnership with Delivery Leads to ensure accurate time charging and alignment with planned work.
  • Review, challenge, and validate vendor forecasts, invoices, statements of work, contracts, and accruals, holding vendor partners accountable to established forecasting and financial governance standards.
  • Lead monthly financial governance meetings and oversee follow-up actions, presenting concise financial insights, risks, decisions, and cost analyses to portfolio leadership.
  • Partner with Finance, Accounting, Portfolio Directors, and other IT portfolios to align estimates, forecasts, actuals, and schedule data, and serve as the primary liaison for portfolio financial matters.
  • People - and the love their actions inspire - are what drive us.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, IT, Project Management, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of project finance, accounting, portfolio controls, or IT project management experience.
  • Experience with capital and expense budgeting, vendor management, and labor validation.
  • Experience in project management, from conception to delivery.
  • Independently manage portfolio initiatives and project efforts as needed, applying strong project management discipline to deliver results on time, within budget, and at the required level of quality.
  • Certifications a plus. PMP or similar preferred
  • Demonstrated experience managing project and portfolio finances, including capital and expense budgets, forecasting, accruals, variance analysis, resource planning, and vendor spend across multiple initiatives simultaneously
  • Advanced Excel and reporting skills; SAP, Sharepoint, Jira and Workday experience preferred.
  • Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

Nice to have

  • Certifications a plus.
  • PMP or similar preferred
  • Advanced Excel and reporting skills
  • SAP, Sharepoint, Jira and Workday experience preferred.

Compensation

  • Lead quarterly financial reviews with Portfolio Leadership, Finance, and executive stakeholders to assess forecast accuracy, spending trends, funding requirements, and corrective actions, and support annual planning and year-end reforecast activities as needed.

Benefits

  • Competitive healthcare, dental & vision insurance
  • Generous time off + company holidays
  • Learning & Development programs
  • We're not only proud of the love we inspire outside our walls, we're especially proud of the diversity, inclusion and equity we're inspiring inside.
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