We have an immediate opening for a Project Manager. Ideal candidates must have 5+ years of experience as an IT Project Manager managing both software development and infrastructure projects.
Responsibilities:
Initiate/Define Phase
- Achieve high level understanding of project work being requested
- Obtain senior management approval for work being initiated
- Work with project sponsor to define project scope
- Prepare and submit scope document for approval
Plan Phase
- Coordinate, prepare and participate in planning meeting
- Facilitate WBS meetings, as required
- Prepare project schedule and all required project planning documents including preparing and adhering to Federated Hermes Funding Request process, preparing risk analysis and adjusting schedule to account for risk in project baseline
Execute/Control Phase
- Execute project plan on schedule and within budget with utilization of scope, time, quality and cost constraints
- Communicate status to stakeholders according to project communication plan
- Escalate project issues to sponsor, vendor, program manager, functional manager, and/or senior management, if appropriate
- Ensure that goals and deliverables as described on project scope document are met
- Actively manage material changes to scope and schedule
Close Phase
- Conduct closing meeting with project team
- Perform all project closure activities including providing functional managers feedback on performance of their resources and recognizing project team and/or key members for successful results
Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer or information science or equivalent experience in an IT environment
Experience Required:
- PMP Certification - Preferred
- 5 - 7 years of experience in Information Technology project management
- Project management experience through the entire project life cycle required; waterfall and Agile/SCRUM methodology
- Experience managing both software development projects and infrastructure projects - Preferred
- Experience across Investment Management, including Equity and Fixed Income products
- Experience with enterprise Project Management tools required and knowledge of Planview
- Experience in Banking or Finance Industry Highly Preferred