Job Details

Job title: Project Manager

Industry: Financial Services

Contract term: 1 year – contract to hire

Location: San Antonio, TX – hybrid (4 days on site, 1 day remote)

Rate: up to $57/hr.

Job Description:

Manages the entire project lifecycle from project definition through implementation. Accountable for meeting agreed upon scope, cost, schedule, and quality measures. Develops project plan and drives project milestones. Establishes effective communication plan with project team and key stakeholders. Provides day-to-day direction to project resources. Ensures effective change management occurs throughout the course of the project. Responsible for preparation of documentation, status reports and budgets. Role requires excellent oral and written communications, interpersonal, negotiation, project planning, judgment, leadership, decision-making, analysis and problem-solving skills.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Defines and maintains program strategies commensurate with the level of risk, size, and complexity to ensure individual efforts align with organizational goals.
• Responsible for providing input and recommendations on multi-year business plans to deliver business capabilities and define execution approach to achieve business goal
• Facilitates meetings with executive management and project / program sponsors to define solutions and delivery.
• Prepares reports that provide stakeholders and management with status updates to include identifying risks or issues.
• Performs analyses, root cause identification and development and recommendation of key work products.
• Negotiates timelines, work, settles disputes equitably and diffuses situations.
• Negotiates program tradeoffs with IT and the business as the program develops to ensure alignment of demand to capacity.
• Adheres to governance rigor required for work efforts.
• Coordinates with business team on our major products
• Manages regular pull-ups to help manage workload
• Maintains views on timelines, progress, and risks
• Meets regularly with business SMEs and IT agile teams supporting our development efforts
• Works in a matrix environment within our business team
• Works closely with DPOs on all project deliverables and priorities

Must Have Skills

• Microsoft Office (Intermediate-Expert level Excel and PowerPoint)
• Clarity
• MS Project
• Visio