Project Manager

Project Manager

Client is looking for a seasoned project manager / business analyst to support the business management function within Global Technology’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) department. The incumbent will work closely with the EA business management team to provide EA leadership with the processes, frameworks, data, and analytics it needs to: Develop departmental strategy and set departmental objectives in alignment with the firm’s broader business and technology goals. Establish a book of work in alignment with strategic objectives. Fund and staff strategic initiatives. Monitor program health and track realization of business value.

Specific responsibilities would include: Day to day management of the EA Business Management team’s book of work; includes facilitating team’s daily stand ups, ensuring the portfolio’s work breakdown structure is aligned with the dept’s WBS taxonomy, ensuring content/status is up-to-date. Producing, distributing and analyzing monthly and quarterly program reports. Interfacing with HR and strategic staffing partners to ensure realization of the organization’s short and long-term business plans/staffing needs. Fostering associate engagement and professional development across EA. Includes managing events designed to foster engagement and/or development. Creating, reviewing and analyzing the effectiveness of the business data used to monitor, manage, and inform business planning, decision-making, risk management, and performance. Tracking the health of EA’s strategic initiatives, monitoring progress against program objectives and business outcomes; ensuring the department is regularly delivering business value. Consulting with EA leadership to ensure communications programs in place to support department’s strategic change initiatives. Supporting EA’s Business Manager in managing of departmental finances, driving departmental budgeting and forecasting exercises and providing regular updates to the EA co-heads.

The incumbent should be capable of: Leading projects/events or work streams within broader projects end-to-end. Taking accountability for work of self and sometimes others, proving process and standards advice in area of specialty. Working independently, receiving minimal guidance? Acting as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

Core competencies: Required skills: Project Management. Demonstrates the expertise necessary to direct and provide guidance for a wide array of activities associated with planning and leading complex projects. Completes projects on time, within budget, and to client specifications. Manages and oversees project management activities such as project reporting, project planning, issue/risk identification and tracking, scope management, estimation, internal client management, relationship management, and other project documentation preparation for projects of low to medium complexity. May develop project justifications and project plans. Responsible for defining roles and responsibilities within the project team and monitoring/updating project plans with accurate, up-to-date information in a timely manner. Coordinates SMEs and other project stakeholders to ensure project is appropriately staffed and resources are properly aligned and managed. Maintains regular contact with internal clients and coordinates and reports on project progress and accomplishments. Works with all required functions and groups to effectively plan and execute sizable projects. Decomposes the most complex problems into discrete work units. Identifies non-obvious relationships and anomalies often overlooked by others. Balances strategic and pragmatic concerns when solving problems. Makes sound decisions with limited facts or resources. Continuously looks for process improvements. Leads and helps to influence discussions with the business on multiple options to help solve the root cause, including various trade-offs and recommended approach within a single large-scale business unit. Helps project team members/make suggestions to improve practices. May lead a small team for specific project(s) or task(s)?

Required skills: Business Analysis. Provides process and standards advice. Defines complex or enterprise-wise business needs for new and/or enhanced products, services, or optimized business processes. Works closely and develops relationships with a variety of senior level internal and external business partners to ensure that all business requirements are understood, documented, and met. Ensures a lean-agile mind-set is applied to work projects. Works on initiatives of moderate complexity, size and impact. Able to break down complex or vague problems and steps through them in a rational way. Able to evolve a decision as new information is gained. Finds opportunities for process improvements. Assists in implementation of new processes as technologies, risks, and methodologies evolve. Seeks to identify when team members need help and providing it in a positive way that promotes confidence. Displays dedication to helping team members/makes suggestions to improve practices?

Business Knowledge: Understands and makes decisions that are cognizant of the firm’s broader business strategy. Demonstrates knowledge of product/flows within the domain supported. Articulates business needs and translate them into the appropriate solutions. Decisions show a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility. Familiarity with Asset Management, FinTech or Technology Management, and/or Enterprise Architecture is preferred. Depending on functional alignment, understanding of the life cycle of the product to the client in Financial Services.

Requirements: Typically, 5+ years of experience as a project/program manager and/or 5+ years a Business Analyst with demonstrated project management experience. Communicates project/program vision to all parties involved in an initiative. Provides a clear and concise explanation of business strategy, technical concepts, designs, or implementations to a non-technical audience. Is grounded in the taxonomy of what is required to successfully implement an Agile technology program or project. Identifies impacts across teams and coordinates across senior levels to manage dependencies and potentially opposing priorities. Identifies system/process/data impacts (upstream and downstream) where relevant and proposes appropriate alternatives/ remediation. Communicates technical concepts to non-technical audiences using multiple forms such as verbal and written. Identifies impacts across teams and coordinate across senior levels to manage dependencies and potentially competing priorities?

Preferred requirements: PMP certification and/or Agile Scrum Management certification. Knowledge of operations for the assigned business unit. Experience running large-scale multi-discipline efforts across people processes and technology with complex financial services organizations. Demonstrates an understanding of technology infrastructure and nuances, including testing, QA, production environment, test environment, engineering, etc.