Sr. Project Manager, CoCounsel for Tax, Audit and Accounting

Summary:

Are you ready to utilize your strategic project management skills in a high-energy team? If so, join the Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel for Tax, Audit, and Accounting Team as a Senior Project Manager. We are looking for an independent, product-thinking Senior Project Manager with a strong ownership approach to their role and a solid background leading complex projects in a distributed environment. This role focuses on Product development initiatives that require strong leadership and execution of time-sensitive efforts to ensure our customer experience expectations are met. Working within the exciting Product Management area, you will blend your proven project execution skills, operations ability and practical experience to contribute to our success.

The CoCounsel for Tax, Audit, and Accounting Team is a newly formed organization within TR following the acquisition of agentic AI startup Materia at the end of 2024. We operate like a startup within a big company. Our team is building the future of software for knowledge workers, it cuts across the TR portfolio of products and is central to Thomson Reuters' strategy. We are working on some of the most exciting areas in software right now, and this role will provide deep exposure/experience to building AI software. This role will help run the organization with broad scope and direct work with senior leadership.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Project Manager you will:

• Empower the team to successfully execute on its vision by implementing mechanisms to ensure clarity and smooth operations.

• Run programs to bring the team closer to customers.

• Partners with Product, Engineering, User Experience (UX) and other groups within Accounting Tax & Practice to create detailed plans and drive achievement of project goals against success metrics for key deliverables.

• Partner with a cross-functional team to develop and drive clear and consistent product development efforts.

• Anticipate upcoming challenges based on project knowledge and lead decisive plans to solve problems; immediately responding to critical issues with proactive recommendations for resolution.

• Interface with key stakeholders across many business areas to ensure effective execution.

• Drive timelines with actionable remediation plans including ownership of critical issues demanding immediate attention for positive customer experiences.

• Drive cross-functional teams by 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.

• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and dependencies across cross-functional teams.

• Implement and own effective communication plans and project operating rhythms.

• Help to develop metrics that drive continuous improvement.

• Drive quarterly roadmap planning efforts for a specific product area.

• Coordinate operations activities including financial planning, quarterly business reviews and tool adoption.

• Manage and report on the delivery of roadmap commitments across teams, including active participation in high-level estimating, scoping, and planning.

• Introduce industry best practices, including the application of AI, to streamline project management and operations processes.

• Adopt and drive innovative and AI / automated solutions for reporting, recurring planning and activity management.

• Lead change management efforts required to deliver on critical release activities.

• Immediately react to critical issues, lead resolution decisions and drive to completion.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Senior Project Manager if you:

• Curious & open minded.

• Self-directed/autonomous.

• Good at dealing with ambiguity, flexible/adaptable.

• Willing to wear different hats.

• Interested in technology and building things.

• Thrive in fast-paced, changing, and ambiguous environment with a desire to place the customer at the center in a drive towards successful delivery.

• Possess strong business acumen, preferably within a Product Management environment with an understanding of product releases.

• Independently and decisively drive critical projects while maintaining alignment and overall direction.

• Demonstrate the ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment focused on teamwork, innovation, and excellence.

• Work effectively with all levels of the organization; including team members, business stakeholders, and leadership across many time zones.

• Possess 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.

• 7+ years of related experience, including at least 5 years of project management experience with implementation of large scale, cross-functional projects.

• 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.

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What's in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you'll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance:Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth:By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• 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.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

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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