IT Project Manager IV

Job Title: Cybersecurity Senior Project Manager
Location: 5 days a week in Columbus, OH || Alpharetta, GA || Berkeley Heights, NJ
Duration: 8 month contract to hire
Work Schedule: 5 days onsite
Visa Acceptable: Only GC and USC

We re Client, a global leader in Fintech and payments, and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants, and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we re involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Client.

About your role:
You will work with the Cybersecurity organization to deliver on critical cybersecurity project initiatives that defend and protect Client s technology. You will be responsible for controlling and managing schedule, monitoring costs, and driving technical performance of components and operations, while working to ensure the ultimate success of the project is achieved. Furthermore, you will be responsible for stakeholder management, whether internal or external to the organization.
You ll join a highly motivated team, full of the brightest minds in the country, coming together to work on enhancing cybersecurity and reducing or eliminating risks. In addition, you ll work for the largest Fintech on the planet - a place that will appreciate your hard work and efforts.
The Senior Project Manager will interact with multiple organizations across the company to ensure project initiatives designed to protect Client s technology and reputation are adopted and successfully executed for our clients.

You re the kind of person who can:
Ensure project methodologies, project delivery processes, and implementation management processes are followed. This includes managing and driving:
Project Schedule
Risk and Issue Management
Scope Change Management
Manage the project budget. This includes understanding and validating estimates, cost variance tracking, and managing project resources effectively.
Provide clear and concise project communication, both written and verbal to multiple levels of the company.
Facilitate/manage stakeholder, client, and project team expectations.
Make complex decisions and recommendations under limited direction and using high degree of initiative and independent judgment.
Basic Qualifications for Consideration:
Bachelor s degree; 5-7 years of project management experience managing the full lifecycle for multiple projects within a global enterprise, collaborating with cross-functional teams across international locations
PMP or equivalent project management certification
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, especially with Microsoft Project
Ability to communicate effectively (verbally and in the written form) in a collaborative and self-directed manner with project and program team members/stakeholders in developing and maintaining appropriate project and program artifacts (e.g. dashboards, status report, stakeholder register, communication plan)
Proven success in delivering projects within budget and specified timeframes, while ensuring customer satisfaction
Proven problem-solving skills from problem assessment to solution selection; Ability to identify alternatives and make contingency plans
Ability to quickly establish and maintain relationships with diverse stakeholders to ensure valid vision and ability to deliver value consistent with the vision and business strategy this project or program is a part of
Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
Proven ability to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment
Ability to handle multiple projects, programs, and other work assigned
Perform duties under limited supervision, applying a broad knowledge of project management principles, practices, and procedures
Preferred Qualifications for Consideration:
Experience managing Cybersecurity, Application Development, and Infrastructure projects
8 years successful experience managing medium to large projects; 3-5 years managing programs
Experience working in Cybersecurity
Working knowledge of Clarity PPM
Working knowledge of JIRA
Financial Services industry experience

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