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Title: Financial Systems Project Delivery Sr Analyst Business Function: FinanceLocation: Nashville, TN

The Global Finance Delivery Lead is a link between the technology teams and the Finance organization to deliver valuable initiatives on behalf of the Finance department. This role will provide support to the senior level Finance Project Delivery Leads in their efforts to provide best-in-class project manager delivery techniques, processes, and leadership as it relates to the objectives of Asurion as a whole and Asurion Finance in particular. This role will gain a high-level understanding of business priorities and objectives to effectively execute against their department objectives and goals. As well as, adhering to the project delivery guiding principles and risk management techniques to ensure successful project implementations.

ESSENTIAL JOB SKILLS/DUTIES:

• Quickly learn a high-level understanding of Asurion financial business processes and technologies
• Work with users and project stakeholders to define and capture business requirements and specifications
• Partner with IT to ensure requirements are implemented per business requirements
• Capture, track and report reported system issues by Finance Accounting business partners.
• Capture, track and report prioritization of system fixes based on business impact.
• Manage and coordinate project meetings, record/maintain meeting minutes and develop weekly status reports, update dashboards and other communications i.e., project issue, risk and decision logs
• Effectively communicate the feasibility of requested deliverables and timelines to manager and other stakeholders on projects
• Support formal Project Management Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, and Change Management Process
• Maps as is and to be business processes and functional flow charts across different business unit

Soft/Leadership skills:

• Ability to quickly learn high level financial & accounting concepts.
• Ability to work within changing and ambiguous project environments with direction from supervisor.
• Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time (excellent organizational & time management skills).
• Act as a self-starter; Ability to take initiative and work independently with limited supervision.
• Be able to challenge status quo (lead with divine discontent).
• Effectively present information & respond to questions from groups.
• Strong judgment on when escalation of risks is needed.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, integrative and problem-solving skills

Technical skills:

• Ability to help coordinate meetings with technical accounting and finance professionals.
• Ability to quickly assimilate new business and technical concepts.
• Working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (Agile software delivery concepts)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Proficiency in capturing & documenting important actions from project meetings in Smartsheets (preferred but not mandatory).

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Required Education and Experience

• 4-year college degree
• Experienced with IT Software Development Life Cycle in all phases
• > 1 Year

Preferred Education and Experience

• 4-year college degree in technology, business management, accounting, financial analysis, or related field;
• Experience in the Finance/Accounting industry (credit, banking, insurance, etc.) preferred
• Experienced with Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology preferred
• Experience with Smartsheet Software preferred
• > 1 Year

Preferred Licenses/Certifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or equivalent

Who we are:

Asurion helps people do more with their technology and stay connected. As the global leader of connected life services, we provide over 340 million consumers around the world with simple, helpful advice to get the most from their technology, support to fix any technology issues they have, and protection of their devices to ensure they quickly get a replacement or repair if anything does go wrong. When a customer's technology is confusing, doesn't work, or is broken, Asurion's 17,000 employees are focused on solving the problem - operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, speaking six languages, and working across any device, platform, or provider. By partnering with leading retailers, mobile carriers and pay-tv providers, Asurion helps customers enhance their lives through their technology