Senior Finance Program Manager

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Your Future Org
Atlassian's Finance team is recognized as a competitive differentiator driving results and decisions as a tightly integrated trusted advisor. We drive impact through proactive, strategic business partnership with leaders across the company and are critical drivers of the next horizon for the company.
Your Future Team
Our Finance Delivery Acceleration Office (DAO) sits at the heart of Atlassian's Finance Strategy & Transformation team, bringing together experts in Finance Transformation, Technology, Program/Project Management, and Portfolio Operations. As the engine for accelerating finance's project delivery, DAO leads high-impact work that makes Atlassian's finance operations more scalable, efficient, and future-ready. We drive the adoption of best-in-class PMO methodologies and delivery frameworks, partnering with global stakeholders to enable project excellence across the Finance organization. This is a fully remote role, working primarily on a PST/CST schedule, and collaborating with teams around the world.
About the Role
Atlassian is seeking a Senior Finance Program Manager with extensive experience in program and project management, M&A, and finance to join our growing team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our Finance Transformation team to drive the delivery execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives-delivering key components of multi-year programs and projects that enable transformational change and operational excellence. You will oversee delivery governance activities and provide hands-on support for other high priority Finance project delivery as needed.
As part of our expanding Finance Delivery Acceleration Office function, you will help establish industry-leading PMO methodologies, templates, and processes designed for a high-growth SaaS environment. Your success will be defined by your ability to work collaboratively across teams and manage a diverse portfolio of Finance projects, all in support of our future-state vision for Finance.
This position requires proven experience leading Finance Transformation and M&A initiatives in a project management capacity. You will be adept at fostering collaboration among stakeholders, influencing executive leadership, adapting to shifting priorities, and ensuring meaningful impact in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Lead program management of finance-related projects (including the Finance integration for M&A), as well as the Finance components of cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Support finance transformation project delivery, including driving activities around requirement gathering, detailed design, and testing and implementation support as needed.
• Develop detailed roadmaps, project posters, project plans, timelines, templates, and deliverables related to Finance Transformation work efforts to establish best-in-class program governance.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams-including Finance, Engineering, RevOps, Business Partners, and other stakeholders-to achieve project milestones and deliver results.
• Own the communications strategy for assigned programs and individual projects, including executive-level updates, status updates, and presenting at ongoing program governance cadences (e.g., MBRs, QBRs).
• Collaborate with value realization work streams to provide meaningful executive updates around impacted metrics, project benefits, and OKRs across transformation programs and projects.
• Apply systems thinking to assess the interconnectedness of people, processes, and technology, addressing dependencies holistically, and identify themes and patterns across projects to uncover opportunities for improvement.
• Establish structure and momentum from ambiguity, creating clarity and actionable plans for stakeholders and teams, working closely with project sponsors, leads, cross-functional teams, and other program managers.
• Ensure consistent ongoing clarity around scope, deliverables, resources, risks, and decisions to establish operational excellence across governance activities.
• Champion continuous improvement and operational excellence in all finance-related initiatives.

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in finance, finance operations, program/project management, or other Finance transformation roles.
• Familiarity with Finance process areas/operations (e.g., Quote to Cash, Accounting) and Finance Transformation across operating model components (process, policy, data, technology, reporting, people, etc.).
• Combination of program management and delivery experience in large-scale Finance Transformation, with knowledge of detailed design, implementation, and project management methodologies, as well as change management approaches.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple moving parts of a project across resources, timelines, deliverables, and RAID tracking.
• Consistent record of motivating and managing change while influencing across various stakeholder groups, departments, and levels.
• Outstanding collaboration skills to build relationships and provide ongoing clarity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to summarize complex project and program updates to key themes, risks, and actions.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, adapt to shifting priorities, handle and prioritize competing responsibilities, and deliver incremental value.
• Ownership mentality, excels when challenging the status quo, setting new strategic/operational direction, and is comfortable with multi-year transformation efforts.
• Experience working with Project and Portfolio Management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technology or Software / SaaS industry experience.
• Experience with Atlassian suite of solutions.
• Understanding of business operations, trends, and best practices, particularly within Finance Transformation.
• Experience in executive communications (e.g., stakeholder comms) preferred.

Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $136,800 - $178,600
Zone B: $123,300 - $160,975
Zone C: $114,300 - $149,225
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
Benefits & Perks
Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits .
About Atlassian
At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.
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