Thomson Reuters Looking for Program Manager – Accounting Tax & Practice at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

Are you ready to utilize your strategic project management skills in a high-energy team? If so, join the Thomson Reuters’ Accounting Tax & Practice group as a Program Manager. We are looking for a customer-focused, self-motivated, and results-driven Program Manager with a strong background in leading large, complex programs with multiple cross-functional workstreams in a distributed environment. Working within the exciting Product Management area, you will blend your proven project execution skills and practical experience to contribute to our success.

About The Role

In this opportunity as Program Manager, you will:

• Partner with product, engineering, and UX leaders supporting the Accounting Tax and Practice portfolio to create detailed plans and manage the achievement of project goals against success metrics for key deliverables.
• Partner with product, engineering, and UX leaders to develop clear and consistent plans to accelerate improvements to our current and future state flagship products.
• Collaborate with business leaders and stakeholders to align project deliverables with business goals and expectations.
• Manage timelines, resources, and costs and create actionable plans when projects deviate from agreed tolerances.
• Defines and programs governance to ensure there is sufficient executive support and guidance.
• Provides thought leadership on all aspects of the program in order to ensure successful delivery. Establishes the appropriate tools and processes to meet project goals. Influences program sponsors to make the appropriate decisions and modifications in response to external influences on the program.
• Maintains effective control, leadership, and responsibility for the delivery of all workstreams in the program – including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business value.
• Develops and leads the process of dealing with rapid major change. Ensures the communication channels and processes are in place to notify key stakeholders so that plans can be amended and the necessary action taken.
• Defines, communicates, and champions a method of working to manage the strategy.
• Influence the success of program strategy and alignment with company objectives by assessing needs, defining scope, prioritizing demand and resourcing, performing risk management, and maintaining roadmaps for program-aligned projects.
• Drive cross-functional teams and individual responsibilities while providing project leadership, work direction, and feedback to the teams.
• Influence the work of others outside of direct authority to ensure project milestones and deliverables are met and drive transparent communications on status with key stakeholders across the business.
• Manage concurrent projects of significant scope and impact with various stakeholders and project teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment across all initiatives.
• Identify, assess, and effectively mitigate risks and dependencies across cross-functional teams.
• Manage and report on the delivery of roadmap commitments across product lines including active participation in high-level estimating, scoping, and planning.
• Partner with Finance and Product leaders on driving monthly financial reconciliation within the portfolio and participate in annual financial planning exercises.
• Introduce industry best practices to streamline project management processes and coach others on project management skills and methodologies to mature these capabilities for the organization.
• Implement effective communication plans and operating rhythms, helping teams to develop metrics that drive continuous improvement.
• Adopt and drive innovative and automated solutions for reporting, recurring planning, and activity management.
• Provide feedback on an ongoing basis to improve processes, methodologies, and standards to improve efficiency, quality, and performance.
• Collaborate with other project managers to create and share a common set of best practices.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Program Manager if you:

• Thrive in a fast-paced, changing, and ambiguous environment with a desire to place the customer at the center in a drive toward successful delivery.
• Possess strong business acumen, preferably with Product Management or Product Development teams.
• Demonstrate the ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment focused on teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
• Independently and decisively drive critical elements of large, complex programs while maintaining alignment and overall direction.
• Work effectively with all levels of the organization; including staff, business stakeholders, and management across many time zones. Key groups include Product Management, Technology, Agile team members, and Finance.
• Possesses strong written and verbal communication skills with diverse audiences, demonstrating strong conflict resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to learn quickly and immediately apply new knowledge.
• Ability to break complex business issues into actionable tasks.
• 10+ years related experience, including at least 5 years of project management experience with implementation of large-scale, cross-functional projects in a technology environment.
• 5+ years of experience in Agile projects in a project management or leadership capacity.
• 3+ years of experience in development tools such as ADO, Jira, or TFS.
• Strong data analysis and presentation skills.
• Project management certifications.

What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose-Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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