Location: Dallas in office 3 days, home 2, United States of America
Duration: 6-12+ nmonth
Job Description
The senior project manager of financial apps will collaborate with leaders and stakeholders across the organization and customers to ensure appropriate delivery of activities related to project management, executive communications, and change management governance. The position has highly visible projects within the organization and with customers which require excellent communication and relationship management skills. Work from home 2 days a week.
Responsibilities
Projects focused on delivery of financial applications including Dynamics 365, SAP Concur, Workday, Adaptive, and more
Review, manage, and resolve resource assignments/constraints on projects that support programs. Determine best methods for assessing comprehensiveness and accuracy of project planning and resource requirements.
Deliver projects with customer approved artifacts, scope, schedule and budget while tracking measurements of success (CSAT/NPS)
Build out and maintain all agreed upon project management artifacts including charters, requirements, end to end project plans, stakeholder approvals process, and notifications in a single source to drive transparency throughout the project management lifecycle
Drive quality throughout delivery, including QA and UAT. Ensure outputs are thoroughly tested and proven before deployment to customers and transitioned to support
Build and manage stakeholder relationships (both internal and external), communicating clear and concise messaging to various levels of leadership consistently
Govern and support the project and program level change control processes in the PMO. Ensure that changes are approved and signed off from leadership
Govern and be accountable for all financial applications projects with quality checks, communications accuracy, and delivery
Develop key relationships with cross functional teams, customers, and vendors while promoting the firm's PPM processes and tools throughout the organization
Manage, review and quality check overall project health status, critical path dependencies, project management lifecycle, phase gates, key milestones, issues/risks, success measurements, and variances (schedule, scope, cost) on a weekly basis
Drive continuous process improvements of project end to end delivery with feedback loops and postmortems.
Drive risk mitigation solutions and recommendations for projects, review risk tracking, and overall governance of the projects risk reporting. Create and manage risk management reporting for leadership reviews and approvals
Actively drive issues to resolution by holding self and others accountable with timely Go-To-Green action plans
Maintain best practices for overall project reporting deliverables including project milestones, risks, escalations, dependencies, executive level read outs and steering committee reviews
Be a leader in the PMO by driving adoption of processes, PPM tools, end to end delivery governance of implementation plans, training, change management and user adoption. Drive team, customers, and vendor adoption of shared services standards
Manage the quality check repository of all PMO projects. This includes internal and external artifacts that adhere to PMO governance policies, approvals of requirements, executive communications, training materials, and project data analytics
Support the end-to-end process by contributing to demand shaping sessions with account management, project requestors and delivery teams
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Communications, Technology, Business Administration or related field
10+ years of experience working in a PMO as a senior project manager, senior project lead, or manager of project management office role
PMP/ PRINCE 2 certification and/or related coursework in program management, project management, lean six sigma, SAFE Agile, ITIL, and more
Prior experience as a senior lead delivering financial applications including ERP, SAP Concur, Workday Adaptative, Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a service provider
Extensive experience working with 3rd party vendors or contractors to execute a project
Able to work autonomously while being a team player, driving decisions and influencing change
Mentor, coach, and provide guidance, team onboarding, and be accountable to adhere to PMO processes and drive adoption of PPM tools across the organization
Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward alignment
Able to energize a team against a goal, committed to continuous process evolution and improvements
Substantial communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations. The ideal candidate excels in connecting outcomes, process and execution
Proficiency with Clarizen, Azure Dev Ops, Jira, Jira Align, Tableau, Confluence, Microsoft PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel, MS Project, SharePoint or other related PPM Tools
Ability to adapt to changes quickly, capable to pivot and focus on competing initiatives, as well as manage multiple priorities simultaneously
Calm under pressure, able to make quick and rational decisions, deliver through ambiguity, while maintaining the project priorities of the team.
Expected travel 20-25%
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
Industries
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