What is the Opportunity?

The Project Manager will perform one or more of the many ongoing processes governed by the Integration, Compliance and Operations Program Management Office Team in compliance and alignment to the PMO processes and methodologies. The Project Manager plans, directs, and coordinates activities of assigned projects. To ensure project goals or objectives are accomplished within approved timeframe, scope, and budget. Manages projects with moderate level of value (benefit/cost), and at least a high level of complexity and uncertainty.

Project Management:

• Plans and executes projects with moderate level of value (benefit/costs)
• High level of complexity and uncertainty including managing project scope, requirements, changes, multiple and competing demands, and priorities
• Determining, conveying impact on budget, time and risk using appropriate fact-based metrics assumptions.
• Seeks out industry trends and organizational knowledge to understand alternative approaches and/or solutions.
• Facilitates joint planning with the client in the early stages of project formation.
• Develops integrated baseline project plans applying estimated models, documents
• Estimating assumptions, refines plans and manages performance against them.
• Determines quality standards and oversees the execution / production of management documents.
• Raises and tracks issues and conflicts, removes barriers, resolves minor project issues and escalates them to immediate manager when required.
• Facilitates schedule and cost forecasting; mentors project managers in determining risk-based provisions.
• Identifies and manages project costs and budgets anticipating operational and some tactical risks

Governance, Compliance and Risk Planning:

• Sets up appropriate governance and oversight of all projects.
• Engages technology specific governance processes to ensure IT Risk and compliance due
• Diligence is applied, ensuring project adheres to applicable risk and compliance procedures, as relevant to impacts resulting from the change being introduced by the project
• Anticipates and quantifies tactical, operational, and strategic risks applying risk-based approach to forecasting.
• Resolves complex issues and conflicts and escalates to executive level where required.
• Oversees project closure initiatives.
• Ensures projects follow established standards including delivery life cycle methods and meets audit requirements.

Communications, Organizational Change Management and Stakeholder Management:

• Manages project communications including status reports to executives, stakeholders, business units, vendors, project team, etc.
• Facilitate Project Sponsor awareness of internal factors affecting Organizational Change that need to be planned for and managed accordingly based on degree of change being introduced into the organization by the project.
• Provides senior management with timely updates on project issues. Identifies resources and skills required.
• Manages project activities with external vendors and third parties (consultants, offshoring, outsourcing) and manages the relationships at the project level.
• Provides superior client experience and strengthens relationships with all key stakeholders.

 Key Capabilities & Skills:

• Experience managing projects with moderate to high level of value (benefit/cost), and at least a high level of complexity and uncertainty
• Undergraduate degree, PMP or equivalent certification required
• Advanced project management knowledge including plan development; scheduling methodology; project metrics; gathering, analyzing, and reporting; risk assessment and quantification methodologies; cost/benefit analysis and alternatives identification; budgeting, financials, and benefits management.
• Advanced people management knowledge including talent management process (recruitment / selection, performance management, performance development / coaching, reward / recognition

 Experience:

• Minimum 3- 5 yrs experience work on large projects
• Preferred but not required previous experience working at a financial institution
• Experience with Regulatory (governance, risk, compliance) projects within the Technology space