Project Lead

Posted:
9/23/2024, 3:42:02 PM

Location(s):
Victoria, Australia ⋅ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

How you’ll make an impact

The Program, Projects and Portfolio - P3 - team  exists to make sure that the people, processes, and priorities are in place to accelerate the delivery of the key cross functional strategic objectives. We deploy the best Portfolio, Program and Project  practices  to effectively prioritise, plan and monitor the execution of our strategic objectives.  

In this role, you will manage a team of Project Managers and Project Co-ordinators within our Projects team, driving a culture of professional development, performance, and open communication. You will be responsible for supporting your direct reports to be awesome Xeros, empowering them to deliver high-quality initiatives to our internal customers. Under your guidance, the team will hone their project management and co-ordination skills, and foster the growth of a world-class technology delivery team.You’ll also work alongside the other members of the Programs and Delivery group to improve operational processes, drive cross-functional projects and initiatives, and support the wider Xero to be successful in all they do.
Why Xero? 
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Xero

Website: http://www.xero.com/

Headquarter Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Employee Count: 1001-5000

Year Founded: 2006

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Accounting ⋅ Billing ⋅ FinTech ⋅ Personal Finance ⋅ SaaS ⋅ Software