SUMMARY:
MN8 Energy is one of the largest independent solar energy and energy storage owner-operators in the U.S., serving enterprise customers with clean energy and complementary solutions, such as battery storage and EV Charging, to enable an electrified, decarbonized world. Originally founded inside of Goldman Sachs in 2017, our fleet has grown to nearly 3-gigawatts of solar, including 850 projects across 27 states, and over 270 megawatts of battery storage projects, with each project tailored to achieve the bold decarbonization targets and goals of our more than 200 blue-chip customers. MN8 is headquartered in New York with offices in Boca Raton, Florida and Madrid.
ABOUT THE POSITION:
Working as a IT Project Manager for the Corporate area (mostly Finance, but HR, Legal and Facility Management too) within our IT Solutions team, you will partner with our business units and support functions and act as a trusted advisor for the business. Acting as the main point of contact for IT projects, you will help to maximize the value from IT investments, capabilities, and assets to support our business strategy.
The purpose of the IT Corporate Project Manager is to execute the digital agenda for the Corporate area delivering business value. This role will ensure delivery of IT roadmaps to agreed time and budget in line with business strategy.
We need people with a high degree of enthusiasm and energy. It’s a unique challenge, able to deal with uncertainty, in a newly created position to deliver immediate value to the business.
This position will plan, establish, and manage information technology (IT) projects and will serve as a liaison between the business and technical aspects of assigned projects.
We expect the position will spend about 80% of its time dealing with Finance IT projects, and the rest of the time supporting the remaining Corporate areas.
As the Corporate IT Project Manager (Finance), you will:
•Establish and maintaining a relationship between IT and the Corporate areas
•Ensure that the business units understand the technology solution, overall solution delivery, and compliance to the governance process, cybersecurity standards, etc.
•Manage assigned IT projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope of project, as well as all IT processes & tools.
•Identify, analyze and record new Business Demands that can add value to our business.
•Document business requirements.
•Develop, maintain, and revise proposals for assigned projects including project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, timelines, funding, and staffing.
•Setting and tracking project milestones & risks; managing and accounting for unforeseen delays, then realigning schedules and expectations as needed.
•Establish and implementing project communication plans, providing status updates to affected staff and stakeholders.
•Collaborate with the change management process and training associated to the project deployment.
•Collect, analyze, and summarize information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports.
•Collaborate to determine the AM model and potentially lead it after the project roll-out.
•Collaborate to define and evolving the MN8 SDLC model.
•Performing other related duties as assigned.
What will our ideal candidate bring to MN8 Energy?
•Bachelor’s degree and / or Master’s with relevant IT or Computer science background;
•At least 5 years of experience in IT Project Management, at least 2 of them within the field of Renewable Energy Finance. Able to understand the full life cycle of a Renewable project.
•High level of expertise in the deployment and maintenance of applications in at least two of these Finance areas: FP & A, Treasury, Tax, Controlling, or Finance Risk.
•Good knowledge of HR, Legal or Facility Management systems is a plus.
•Strong Finance knowledge. US regulation knowledge will be a must (e.g., SOX).
•Previous experience deploying ERPs is a plus.
•MS Dynamics or SAP knowledge is a plus.
•Good knowledge of best practices in the main business processes (O2C, P2P, etc.) is a plus
•Data strategy, data platform implementation and data analytics to boost Finance performance improvement is a plus.
•Experience with middleware and integration tools is a plus.
•Microsoft Azure Cloud knowledge is a plus.
•PMP and experience in Agile methodologies is a plus.
•Relevant experience in IT delivery and managing international AM vendors setting SLAs.
•Experience with ITSM and project management tools like Jira/Confluence.
•Good knowledge of Business Demand Management process.
•Experience in driving & monitoring ticketing tools for ticket resolution. Incident Management and Request fulfilment.
•Organized with attention to detail.
•Excellent analytical, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
•Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
•Thorough understanding of project management principles and planning.
•Thorough understanding of information technology procedures and practices.
•Proficient with, or able to quickly become proficient with, a range of general and specialized applications, software, and hardware used in the organization and the industry.
•Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project or related software.
•Ability to motivate groups of people to complete a project in a timely manner.
•Able to help growth the position within the organization and deal with uncertainty.
MN8 Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital or familial status.