Applications Project Manager Jobs in Raleigh, NC

Job Summary:
RIT Solutions, Inc. is seeking an EPO Project Manager to lead project activities within a major financial institution. The role involves coordinating with various stakeholders, managing project risks, budgets, and schedules to ensure successful project delivery.
Responsibilities:
• Plans and coordinates closely with business/function area managers and cross functional subject matter experts and key project team members to drive project activities and issue resolution.
• Works closely with, and provides direction to business, operations and technology leads to support program needs.
• Ensures that project activities are on a path to deliver benefits realization.
• Installs an appropriate risk management plan for the project and ensures adherence to company and unit requirements.
• Follow CLIENT PMLC methodology, risk management routines, and project governance activities (working closely with Risk Program Portfolio Lead and Lead Business partners).
• Proactively works to engage key stakeholders to understand and mitigate any cross team concerns/differences and leads group discussions to develop a resolution path to keep project activities on-schedule with appropriate risk mitigation.
• Leads teams or multiple teams of internal and/or external resources on a project basis.
• Manages project budget forecast and actuals in accordance with finance and reporting routines and methodologies.
• Creates, maintains, analyzes and collectively manages variances to the project schedules and makes recommendation and/or creates action plan to mitigate negative variances or to resolve issues.
• Prepares dashboard reporting to identify and communicate the health of the project for use by key executives (in alignment with existing project governance routines).
• Prepares documentation/presentations to support overall workstream efforts and internal reporting routines, as needed
• Proactively engages key stakeholders to plan, manage, and risk mitigate key items and critical path activities.
• Proactively works to engage key stakeholders to understand and mitigate any cross team concerns/differences and leads group discussions to develop a resolution path to keep project activities on-schedule with appropriate risk mitigation.
• Assist in the identification of change introduced by the project and coordinated with appropriate teams for planning and executing on "readiness" plans: Client Communications, Teammate Communications, and Teammate Training.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Major financial institution (Category 1 or 2 bank) transformative program and/or project management experience.
• Proven ability to effectively manage complex projects and initiatives, including multiple business partners across different areas as well as large / complex data sets; demonstrated organization skills.
• Proven stakeholder relationship building skills to engage and drive cross team collaboration at the project member and senior management stakeholder levels.
• Ability to communicate project status with equal effectiveness at all leadership and team member levels from both a project execution and business progression terms.
• Experienced in driving large scale tech-focused programs/projects with large internal and vendor resource teams.
• Ability to create and drive multiple project/workstream schedules in parallel.
Preferred:
• Backgound in Accounting and Finance as either a business unit stakeholder or project management role with experience ensuring GAAP compliance, regulatory reporting, and profitability.
• Experience with SAP S/4 HANA, OneStream, Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service (EDMCS), and/or Oralce Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA).
• Prior experience with system and user acceptance test planning activities.
• Experience with AI and automation strategy development and execution.
• Experience with data strategy development and execution.
• PMP certification.
• Ability to translate conversations with process owners and stakeholders into effective strategic plans, project objectives, and schedules to achieve expected project outcomes.
Company:
Jobdiva Job Portal: https://www1.jobdiva.com/candidates/myjobs/searchjobsdone.jsp?a=xbjdnwgjodtga1y1im2g881fkkeiwd0775lbvq8yqgps8vb2q36w2vj1ga6xxork&compid=-1 Recruitment (contingency search and campus selection). Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Arlington, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.