Project Coordinator III

TekWissen LLC

North Chicago, IL

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$30–$34
SKILLS
Accounting, Accounting Close, Accounting Standards and Regulations, Analysis Skills, Billing, Budget Management, Budget Reporting, Budgeting, Business Solutions, Cadence, Capital Expenditure (CAPEX), Communication Skills, Cost Control, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Diversity, Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Planning, Financial Policies, Financial Regulations, Financial Risk, Forecasting, Information Technology & Information Systems, Investment Management, Maintain Compliance, Medical Products, Microsoft Excel, Multitasking, Operational Audit, Operational Expenditure (OPEX), Power BI, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Lifecycle, Project Lifecycle, Project Management Software, Project Planning, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Project Tracking, Project/Program Coordination, Project/Program Management, Purchase Orders, Purchasing/Procurement, Record Keeping, Reporting Dashboards, Reporting Skills, Research & Development (R&D), Resource Management, Risk, Risk Management, SAP Supplier Relationship Management, Statement of Work (SOW), Systems Analysis, Technical Support, Time Management, Workforce Management
LOCATION
North Chicago, IL
POSTED
1 day ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people's lives.

Position: Project Coordinator III
Location: North Chicago, IL 60085
Duration: 7 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
  • As a project coordinator, you will be responsible for the financial aspects of IT projects supporting the R&D function in the biopharmaceutical industry.
  • Main responsibilities will include financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and providing data-driven insights into the financial health of a portfolio of projects.
  • This role plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of projects by providing accurate data, insightful analysis, and strategic guidance to project teams.
  • The position requires a combination of financial expertise, analytical skills, project management skills, and effective communication through oversight of multiple projects across the entire project management lifecycle from initiation to closure.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Monitor IT operating and capital expenditure on a regular cadence to ensure adherence to the allocated budget by maintaining accurate records of invoices, expense cashflow, capital authorization and spend.
  • Complete month-end close processes, such as analyzing and reporting on budget utilization, highlighting variances to forecast, and recommending adjustments as needed.
  • Support Portfolio managers in generating regular reports and dashboards to communicate portfolio health, at-risk projects, budget status, request for capital expenditure status, software renewal timelines, and cost reallocation opportunities
  • Collaborate with portfolio managers, project managers, business system analysts, IT operations and other project stakeholders to develop and monitor project cost plans
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including project accounting, finance, and procurement to capitalize and close-out on authorizations in partnership with Portfolio managers
  • Develop and update comprehensive financial forecasts based on project progress and changes in scope, schedule, resource allocation and other project dependencies, while anticipating and communicating potential financial risks and opportunities.
  • Monitor project health dashboards and raise risks and issues to Portfolio managers and project managers ensuring PPM tools contains accurate data
  • Coordinate the renewal of IT licenses, subscriptions, and contracts in collaboration with business system analysts and IT system owners
  • Maintain statements of work (SOW) and purchase orders (PO) to track vendor commitments and invoice receipt
  • Partner with Project and Portfolio managers to ensure that projects adhere to financial policies, regulations, and accounting standards for IT projects
  • Provide feedback on opportunities for process improvement and/or leveraging technology to automate tasks, reports, and processes
Qualifications & Skills:
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
  • 5+ years of work experience managing projects with an emphasis on cost management
  • Must be proficient in MS Excel
  • Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects under tight deadlines
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders
  • Experience with SAP, SRM, PowerBI and Clarity PPM a plus
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/