About Our Team:&nbsp;The AFC Business Technology (BT) team is responsible for delivering software necessary to bring technology products to the business, enabling them to run more efficiently. The Portfolio Management team provides oversight and support in a variety of areas for the AFC BT team. About Our Candidate:&nbsp;Ideal candidates will have experience working within agile frameworks, embody core lean-agile principles and be inquisitive and passionate about implementing solutions that streamline processes and eliminate administrative overhead.&nbsp; You will be a demonstrated self-starter with strong organization, communication, and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations in our challenging, fast-paced environment.&nbsp; What You Will Be Doing:&nbsp;<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Monitoring and reporting on Portfolio initiatives and epics with Product Management and key stakeholders.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Assisting Product Management teams in capturing and publishing roadmap information through a common toolset.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Developing presentations for various stakeholder audiences to reflect financial trends and train/portfolio effectiveness and performance.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Facilitating alignment of priority initiatives between agile release trains and other lines of business.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Executing financial tasks such as gathering required financial information, monitoring budgets and actual spending, tracking forecast revisions and updating reports.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Aggregating financial, product management, solution and service delivery data and transforming the data for reporting and stakeholder presentations.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Facilitating best practices and automation to improve efficiency and overall quality of services delivered by the team.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Supporting vendor management processes specifically around contingent worker management.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Coordinating/managing portfolio initiatives such as 3rd party software upgrades and consulting engagements.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Supporting annual portfolio roadmap planning, budgeting and reporting.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Planning, coordinating, and facilitating on-site and remote team events and town halls, as well as, agile ceremonies (such as scrum of scrums, program increment planning, demos and inspect &amp; adapt sessions).</li>
</ul> What You Need to Be Successful:&nbsp;<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent in experience is required along with 5 years experience in project and financial management in a technology environment context.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Preferred experience with lean budgeting and lean portfolio management within a scaled agile environment.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Organizational change management, strategic planning, and risk management experience preferred.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Advanced skills using Microsoft Excel for performing budget forecasts, tracking accruals, etc.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience using Azure DevOps or other project management / issue tracking software.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience using Aha! or other strategic product management roadmap software a plus.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt to audience.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Strong leadership, interpersonal and organizational skills.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail and the ability to understand how a process fits into an overall solution ecosystem.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Ability to work in a dynamic environment where responsibilities evolve as the team matures.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Demonstrated self-starter with ability to work with limited supervision.</li>
</ul> Who We Are:Automotive Finance Corporation (AFC), a KAR Global brand, was created to provide inventory financing for independent car dealers as they bought and sold vehicles at auto auctions and dealerships. With more than 120 branch locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, AFC works with over 15,000 dealers in the retail and wholesale automotive space as well as RV, power sports and commercial truck dealers, salvage buyers and daily rental operators and is accepted as a form of dealer payment at more than 1,100 auction sources in the same footprint. AFC is staffed with local industry experts across North America to provide dealers with the right floorplan for their business model, thereby freeing up their cash flow and conquering their unique market. By utilizing the robust online suite of tools through AFCDealer.com®, dealers are empowered to do business the way they want—on the lot, in the lanes, or on the go. AFC’s business philosophy is supported by their purpose statement: “We fuel the entrepreneurial dream in our community.” Whether it’s supporting a dealer and their growing business or helping an employee find a meaningful career path, AFC is dedicated to the dream. We want you to be well and thrive. Our benefits package includes:<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Competitive compensation</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Insurance coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Flexible spending account</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Wellness program</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">401(k) with employer match</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Employee stock purchase program</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Paid holidays and generous paid time off</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Paid parental leave</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Learning and development resources</li>
</ul>

**About Our Team:  **

The AFC Business Technology (BT) team is responsible for delivering software
necessary to bring technology products to the business, enabling them to run
more efficiently. The Portfolio Management team provides oversight and support
in a variety of areas for the AFC BT team.

  

 **About Our Candidate:  **

Ideal candidates will have experience working within agile frameworks, embody
core lean-agile principles and be inquisitive and passionate about
implementing solutions that streamline processes and eliminate administrative
overhead.  You will be a demonstrated self-starter with strong organization,
communication, and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and
business operations in our challenging, fast-paced environment.

  

 **What You Will Be Doing:  **

  * Monitoring and reporting on Portfolio initiatives and epics with Product Management and key stakeholders.
  * Assisting Product Management teams in capturing and publishing roadmap information through a common toolset.
  * Developing presentations for various stakeholder audiences to reflect financial trends and train/portfolio effectiveness and performance.
  * Facilitating alignment of priority initiatives between agile release trains and other lines of business.
  * Executing financial tasks such as gathering required financial information, monitoring budgets and actual spending, tracking forecast revisions and updating reports.
  * Aggregating financial, product management, solution and service delivery data and transforming the data for reporting and stakeholder presentations.
  * Facilitating best practices and automation to improve efficiency and overall quality of services delivered by the team.
  * Supporting vendor management processes specifically around contingent worker management.
  * Coordinating/managing portfolio initiatives such as 3rd party software upgrades and consulting engagements.
  * Supporting annual portfolio roadmap planning, budgeting and reporting.
  * Planning, coordinating, and facilitating on-site and remote team events and town halls, as well as, agile ceremonies (such as scrum of scrums, program increment planning, demos and inspect & adapt sessions).

  

**What You Need to Be Successful:  **

  * Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent in experience is required along with 5 years experience in project and financial management in a technology environment context.
  * Preferred experience with lean budgeting and lean portfolio management within a scaled agile environment.
  * Organizational change management, strategic planning, and risk management experience preferred.
  * Advanced skills using Microsoft Excel for performing budget forecasts, tracking accruals, etc.
  * Experience using Azure DevOps or other project management / issue tracking software.
  * Experience using Aha! or other strategic product management roadmap software a plus.
  * Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt to audience.
  * Strong leadership, interpersonal and organizational skills.
  * Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
  * Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail and the ability to understand how a process fits into an overall solution ecosystem.
  * Ability to work in a dynamic environment where responsibilities evolve as the team matures.
  * Demonstrated self-starter with ability to work with limited supervision.

  

**Who We Are:**

Automotive Finance Corporation (AFC), a KAR Global brand, was created to
provide inventory financing for independent car dealers as they bought and
sold vehicles at auto auctions and dealerships. With more than 120 branch
locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, AFC works with over 15,000 dealers
in the retail and wholesale automotive space as well as RV, power sports and
commercial truck dealers, salvage buyers and daily rental operators and is
accepted as a form of dealer payment at more than 1,100 auction sources in the
same footprint.

  

AFC is staffed with local industry experts across North America to provide
dealers with the right floorplan for their business model, thereby freeing up
their cash flow and conquering their unique market. By utilizing the robust
online suite of tools through AFCDealer.com®, dealers are empowered to do
business the way they want—on the lot, in the lanes, or on the go.

  

AFC’s business philosophy is supported by their purpose statement: “We fuel
the entrepreneurial dream in our community.” Whether it’s supporting a dealer
and their growing business or helping an employee find a meaningful career
path, AFC is dedicated to the dream.

  

 **We want you to be well and thrive. Our benefits package includes:**

  * Competitive compensation
  * Insurance coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  * Flexible spending account
  * Wellness program
  * 401(k) with employer match
  * Employee stock purchase program
  * Paid holidays and generous paid time off
  * Paid parental leave
  * Learning and development resources

