Functional Project Manager Jobs in Ridgewood, NJ

Join Mizuho as a Central Project Manager!

The Central Project Manager supports enterprise infrastructure initiatives by providing governance, coordination, and portfolio-level project management services across multiple infrastructure towers. This role focuses on project intake, initiation, dependency management, risk oversight, and standardized reporting rather than day-to-day task execution. The position operates within the Infrastructure PMO and ensures projects align with established governance, documentation, and delivery standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Intake, Initiation & Planning

• Partner with infrastructure tower leads, project sponsors, and technical owners to support project intake, qualification, and tiering
• Lead or contribute to the development of standardized initiation artifacts, including project charters, business requirements (where applicable), high-level scope definitions, ROM cost estimates, and initial risk assessments
• Ensure projects meet defined readiness criteria prior to execution, including required documentation, stakeholder alignment, and funding/resource visibility

Risk, Issue & Change Management Oversight

• Maintain visibility of project-level risks, issues, and dependencies, contributing to infrastructure-wide RAID and change logs
• Support project change assessments by coordinating impact analysis on scope, schedule, cost, and risk, and facilitating required governance approvals

Status, Reporting & Communication

• Produce standardized weekly and monthly project and portfolio reporting using approved templates and designated systems of record
• Present consolidated views of project health, schedule variance, budget posture, and execution risks for leadership consumption. Incorporate stakeholder and leadership feedback into ongoing reporting and project oversight

PMO Standards & Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the development and adoption of Infrastructure PMO standards, templates, and best practices
• Reinforce compliance with Project Management & Governance policies, processes, and audit requirements

Required Skills:

Functional: Project & Portfolio Governance, Project Initiation & Planning, Risk, Issue, Change Management, PMO Standards & Compliance, Reporting & Transparency

Professional: Executive Communication, Structured Thinking & Judgement, Stakeholder Management, Accountability & Discipline

The expected base salary ranges from $81k-$120k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

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Other requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in-office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process.

Company Overview

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.

Mizuho Americasoffers a competitive total rewards package.

We are an EEO/AA Employer -M/F/Disability/Veteran.

We participate in the E-Verify program.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing as permitted by applicable law.

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