Project Portfolio Manager Apply
Description
- Timely completion of adhoc requests from senior leadership.
- Prior experience working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Very strong analytical skills with ability to gather, synthesize information and summarize issues.
- Ability to independently identify issues and anomalies, analyze possible resolutions, and recommend corrective course of action.
- Interface with Project Managers on project costing, budgeting, resource management, and work effort tracking.
- Assist in weekly and monthly portfolio reporting to generate Bank and Business unit reports.
- Review project status content and RAG statuses.
- Create suggestions for improvements to processes.
Financial Management
- Execute frequent reports to ensure departments (internal and external) are forecasted appropriately to work efforts and within budget to projects, partner with departments to resolve deviations from allocations.
- Perform forecasting of IT resources, projects and services, including hardware and software.
- Produce quantitative monthly financial review, analysis reports for programs with supporting qualitative commentary on financial variance to targets.
- Administer project related IT financial management across the project portfolio including monitoring actuals vs budget and determining project related corrective action where necessary.
- Facilitate creation of wallets and technology funding requests for external vendor engagements.
Resource Management
- Support hiring managers in the creation, review of critical hire justifications, job descriptions, forecasting to facilitate recruitment, onboarding of employee and consultant positions, manager changes, and resource off boarding.
- Compilation, administration, and delivery of team based and organization based rosters, trends, and resource ratios.
- Coordinate communications with staffing vendors and Human Resources through the onboarding process.
- Excellent working knowledge of Excel is essential.
- Minimum of over 8 years of Business Management and PMO experience.
- Work effectively in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.
- Capable of effectively meeting time sensitive deliverables with accuracy and a high level of attention to detail.
- Outstanding written, verbal, interpersonal, communication skills.
- Excellent people management skills, including the ability to influence, negotiate and achieve results through others who are not direct reports.
Desired Skills
- PMP Certification or equivalent Agile certification.
- Previous experience with financial and resource management tools (i.e. Serena IG, TM1, PeopleTracker, etc.).
- Understanding of technology principles and services including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms, and consumer facing technology.
- Previous experience in the financial services field, with emphasis on banking, lending technology.