Financial Project Manager (IT@JH Administration & Finance)

Overview

This temporary Financial Project Manager role supports the coordination and execution of a portfolio of high-priority financial initiatives during a concentrated period of budget redesign, system support, and capital planning. Reporting to initiative owners and finance leadership, the position will contribute to multiple workstreams, including budget structure redesign, student system financial process and planning support, and financial planning for a new Research Compute facility.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage project scope, including goals, timelines, budgets, and objectives.
• Develop and execute project plans, budgets, timelines, and risk mitigation strategies; monitor and report on progress and outcomes.
• Complete required project deliverables, including analysis, benchmarking, data collection, and deliverable development.
• Identify and resolve conflicts, challenges, or barriers as they arise; escalate as appropriate.
• Serve in various project roles as needed to address gaps and keep work progressing.
• May oversee project teams and resources, including project managers and staff from other departments.
• Oversee key deliverables such as project plans, budgets, timelines, status reports, presentation materials, reports, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Participate in risk, issue, and change resolution processes, working with leaders to take corrective action.
• Act as a key decision-maker for assigned project(s) and related work.
• Interface with key leaders to define project priorities and communicate project risks, issues, and opportunities.
• Monitor KPIs for special projects and report progress and status to senior leaders.
• Draft project deliverables, including written reports, presentations, spreadsheets, and data visualizations.
• Collaborate with project managers and staff outside the assigned area to implement project management methodology and best practices.
• Assist with coaching and mentoring other project management practitioners and share best practices.

Initiative-Specific Support

Budget Redesign – Utilities LLC

• Support an end-to-end review of the Utilities LLC budget structure, including funding alignment between Johns Hopkins University and Health System, reporting hierarchies, and implementation documentation.
• Work with Utilities LLC finance and operations leadership to document current-state gaps, gather input on decision points, and help develop recommendations for an improved target-state budgeting process.
• Assist in developing standardized budgeting workflows, templates, approval paths, and control points to support consistent planning and reporting.
• Assist in developing and implementing changes to the Technology User Fee model, where applicable.

Student System Financial Support

• Support development of a clear financial plan and reporting routines for the Student System workstream, including recurring updates for leadership review.
• Analyze budget allocations and provide information to help initiative owners align funding with institutional priorities and operating needs.
• Assist Student System stakeholders in documenting financial requirements, tracking open issues, and preparing information needed for timely decisions.
• Prepare concise budget-to-actual reporting, variance explanations, and financial summaries suitable for leadership review.

Capital Project Programming – Research Compute Facility

• Support the financial and construction programming phase for the new Research Compute capital project by preparing baseline capital budget materials, documenting funding source assumptions, and maintaining cost estimate documentation.
• Work with architects, engineers, finance leaders, and project stakeholders to document facility requirements and support development of a governance-ready capital budget framework.
• Prepare cash flow projections, funding schedules, and financial models for review by initiative owners and finance leadership to support approval sequencing, affordability review, and project planning.
• Assist in preparing capital project materials for governance or board review, including summaries of assumptions, risks, funding requirements, and decision points.
• Track project financials against budget through the programming and early design phases, including for gift funding sources.

Cross-Functional & General Duties

• Coordinate support across the three initiatives to help maintain consistency in financial methodology and reporting under the direction of initiative owners.
• Prepare draft status updates, decision logs, and leadership summaries showing progress, risks, dependencies, and items requiring action.
• Track risks, dependencies, and resource needs across projects and bring them to initiative owners for review and escalation as appropriate.
• Perform work in accordance with organizational financial policies, procurement guidelines, and relevant regulatory requirements; raise questions or concerns to the appropriate owner.
• Support change management activities and stakeholder communications as directed by initiative owners.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
• Five years related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting higher education financial systems (e.g., student information systems, tuition/fee budgeting).
• Experience with capital project finance, construction/facilities budgeting, or capital planning for research or laboratory facilities.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management credential.
• Experience working in a temporary/consulting capacity with multiple simultaneous stakeholders.

Technical Qualifications & Specialized Certifications

• Demonstrated ability to use Microsoft Office Suite software applications, along with general understanding of HRIS applications to retrieve data for reporting and analysis.
• Knowledge of SmartSheet or comparable project planning software.

Compensation & Benefits

• Starting salary range: $36.12 - $63.22 HRLY (commensurate with experience).
• Employee group: Casual / On Call.
• FLSA Status: Exempt.

Location

• Remote.
• Schedule: Varies.
• Personnel area: University Administration.
• Department: IT@JH Administration and Finance.