Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree from a four year college or university in a related discipline
• Experience: 5-7 years experience in project management in financial services or a related industry; OR 5-7 years experience in a client-related field (e.g., business analysis, programming, client server, telecommunications, legal); or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Actively pursuing project management certification or has the equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience of delivering large scale, complex technology programs on time, budget and to the appropriate quality
• Senior stakeholder management
• Managing dependencies as well as issues/risks around the cross functional teams
• Facilitating working groups
• Program/Project planning

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of a number of large programs/projects
• Responsible for planning and managing tactical projects that are typically of medium level complexity, impact multiple business units and include up to 50 project team members
• Identifies project management coordination process gaps or areas for improvement, recommends and implements solutions.
• Manages project initiation activities that include identifying contractual obligations, client needs and goals, existing situation, necessary contacts, and access to existing information as needed.
• Reviews plans to determine costs, timeline, funding, staffing requirements and goals.
• Develops project plans outlining project scope, activities, schedules, deadlines and cost/time estimates.
• Delivers informational and decision-seeking presentations to technical and business groups.
• Assigns project team members to various project activities.
• Manages project risks, issues/problems, and activity progress to ensure project goals (e.g., deadline, scope and quality) are achieved.
• Assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as needed.
• Coordinates activities and tasks among project team members, other internal departments and client organizations as needed to meet project goals.
• Seeks and develops more productive and effective ways to complete assigned tasks. Ensures fit with timeline, architecture and user needs.
• Conducts project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance, handover ongoing activities to accountable teams and complete a post implementation review to identify areas of improvement or that worked well.
• Pursues project management certification or equivalent experience.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.