Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS or applicable degree
• Six (6) to eight (8) years of experience including project management, enterprise implementation, leadership experience, strategic planning, business acumen, applications development, and change management or combination of education, training and experience
• Proficient in Agile methodologies and can work with TFS (Azure DevOps) to create and manage Sprints, queries and dashboards
• Application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards
• Concepts of risk management, issue tracking, change management and requirements gathering
• Information technology support and technical documentation
• Principles of banking and finance and securities industry operations
• Business planning and analysis
• MS Project
• Azure DevOps (TFS)
• SmartSheets
• Project budget interfaces with other accounting systems

Responsibilities

• Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests by reviewing requirements and specifications and testing and by reviewing support and training plans to ensure they are aligned with organizational priorities, business plans and objectives.
• Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management team to ensure complete and accurate definitions of business requirements and delivery of business applications.
• Identifies, defines and documents complex business and technical requirements, processes and deliverables.
• Develops, prepares, presents and maintains project plans, including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets and work breakdown structures and schedules.
• Performs project risk assessments, including identifying key risk factors, providing effective mitigation strategies and assigning contingency action plans to both schedules and budgets.
• Manages projects and teams, including applying established methodologies, using change control templates and processes; managing time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools; monitoring budgets; coordinating resource acquisition and utilization; maintaining precise documentation/artifacts required as part of PMO and Internal Audit; serving as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers; and communicating regularly with project stakeholders.
• Delivers systems on appropriate platforms in compliance with established technology standards, including monitoring testing, executing quality assurance checks and ensuring information technology acceptance criteria is met prior to implementation.
• Manages all aspects of the project budget including creating and maintaining resource allocations and actively tracking costs to the approved budget.
• Applies established project methodologies to manage projects: uses change control templates and processes, manages time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools, monitors budgets, and coordinates resource acquisition and utilization.
• Partners with other functional areas to accomplish objectives.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP or equivalent certification highly preferred
• CSM or equivalent certification highly preferred
• Experience managing large complex release cycles highly preferred