MeridianLink is seeking a Project Manager to join its Project Management Office (PMO) team at its headquarters in Costa Mesa, CA. The PMO team is a small, core group of professionals who drive the pre-merger integration planning and post-merger integration execution for all company M&A activity. The team also is responsible for driving key corporate strategic initiatives.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS or KNOWLEDGE:
- Deep understanding of Business and Operating Models in the high-tech industry
- You are a clear thinker, inquisitive, structured, organized, creative, story-teller, with a high sense of urgency, who is flexible, resilient and self-motivated
- Ability to find resolution of abstract/complex business problems
- Performs project plan creation and updating, weekly status reporting, quarterly business reviews, retrospectives, etc.
- Continuously tracks project activities, risks and issues to ensure the integration progresses on schedule and budget to achieve the synergies and provides formal report
- Ensures the prioritization and balance of the Integration activities to minimize any disruption of the existing business of the acquired company, while also driving necessary changes to achieve committed synergies
- Works directly with the internal/external teams and functional leadership when needed to drive issues to closure, and/or escalates issues and mitigation recommendations to upper management when necessary
- Drives resources towards timely task and deliverables completion while tracking issues and risks and developing remediation plans to quickly recover from timeline slippage
- Build out and maintain integration information repository in project management system
- Supports integration budget process, including creation, tracking, reporting, and measuring
- Identifies areas where we can implement process improvements and add efficiencies â ensuring consistent playbooks, developing templates, maintaining PMO business process inventory, etc.
- Assists in building presentations, supporting deal-related workshops
- You are comfortable with Finance concepts/management
EDUCATION and OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
- Education: Business or Engineering degree. MBA is desirable.
- PMP or other Project/Program Management Certifications preferred
- You are an exceptional performer in your current role with a strong record of achievement as Project Manager in an active M&A group
- Experience in streamlining integration process
- You will have 3+ years of experience in an M&A function and 5+ years of Project Management experience in tuck-in transactions and transformational projects.
- You possess strong project management skills with the ability to complete multiple, simultaneous, time-critical projects
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office products with advanced skills and experience using MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
- Can present in front of various levels of MeridianLink management
- Be very detail oriented and enjoy working in a fast paced, dynamic, results-oriented environment
- Strong written and verbal communications skills is essential
- Will possess strong collaboration and strong problem-solving skills
- FinTech industry experience/knowledge a plus
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