Project Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• This position is responsible for managing multiple projects, with interdependencies in a fast-paced, high energy environment.
• This person must excel at communication, details, organization, leadership, project management, and has a positive attitude who proactively takes the initiative to 'Get Stuff Done' with high quality.
• Also, this person must have 5+ years experiencing in managing projects in an IT organization, and having experience with Waterfall / Agile methodologies.
• This person will work closely with IT Application teams as well as Business functional teams to:
• Identify project deliverables, develop project scope, manage resources and activities to ensure project deliverables are met on time and within budget while delighting our customers.
• Identify project risks and set timelines to meet customer expectations.
• Influence effectively between the Business Owners, Project Managers (PMs), and Operations Teams to support delivery, risk mitigation, change management, and issue resolutions.
• Effectively manage and lead the successful delivery of the projects and requests from within various phases of delivery, across the entire lifecycle of Delivery within project timeline and budget.
• Responsibilities
• Develops and maintains detailed project schedules or ADO boards depending on the project methodology (Waterfall or Agile).
• Manages deliverable estimation process, resource allocation, and project budgets.
• Schedule recurring internal and customer facing meetings as needed during project implementation to review and monitor project goals and status.
• Represents team recommendations to Senior Management, demonstrate influence over governance bodies, and communicate effectively via formal presentations.
• Builds strong relationships with business and technology leaders.
• Collect and report value metrics to enable leaders to make decisions in order to maximize returns across enterprise projects and programs.
• Ability to quickly learn and use new complex technical concepts and resolve issues with them in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to discuss complex technical concepts to the technical staff, stakeholders and business executives in a simple straightforward manner.
• Provides ongoing status updates on project progress, risks, change management and issue resolution.
• Leads issue identification, tracking, escalation and resolution documentation. Monitors risk events before becoming issues and potential roadblocks.

Qualifications:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree / 5+ years of experience.
• Experience as a Scrum Master and a Project Manager.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

• Excellent interpersonal communications skills and proven ability to work effectively with all organization levels.
• Has an ability to understand people and technologies with the ability to know what questions to ask to guide someone through solving a problem (without knowing the subject matter)
• Ability to assess and deliver appropriate level of detail and comfortable interacting at all levels of the organization.
• Experience at working both independently and in a cross functional team-oriented environment is essential.
• Must be able to facilitate discussion and discover alternatives or different approaches.

Must Have:

• 5+ years experiencing in managing projects in a technology organization, and having experience with Waterfall / Agile methodologies.
• Must excel at communication, details, organization, leadership, project management, and has a positive attitude who proactively takes the initiative to 'Get Stuff Done' with high quality.
• Managing project deliverables, resources, schedule, budget, risks and issues that deliver project deliverables on time with high quality while creating a positive experience for all stakeholders and clients.
• Effectively manage and lead the successful delivery of the projects and requests from within various phases of delivery, across the entire lifecycle of delivery within project timeline and budget.
• Scrum Master experience

Nice To Have:

• Experience working at a Financial Services Company