We are looking for Project Manger with financial program/project management and regulatory experience. Candidate must be local, hybrid role in Oakland, CA

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

• Must have experience in budgeting/forecasting and reporting processes.
• This role will help orchestrate all IT Investments of 2 6 years plans.
• Must have basic IT Knowledge with financial and program management skillset.
• The ideal candidate knows and wants to plan to prioritize hundreds of projects, interested and need to understand their financial model.
• Regulatory background is highly desired. As the role will be exposed to plan investment, regulatory filing.

Position Summary
The Project Manager, IT Investment Management, Business Deployment Plan is responsible for supporting client s business vision by improving service quality, increasing capabilities through the deployment of application and infrastructure projects by providing a framework that will support all stakeholders, product, and project teams to improve the probability of successful delivery. In this role, you will provide executive management & business clear insights into the drivers of business, financial, and compliance performance and risk. You will aid in business plan deployment, investment planning and regulatory support, and manage day-to-day activities to ensure organization goals and requirements are met. You will collaborate with and manages cross functional teams to provide end-to-end program support, operational financial support, and analysis & governance, and provide leadership for those involved in the development, implementation, maintenance, support, and operations of client's systems infrastructure and applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Manages a team to ensure the successful fulfillment of IT development and service delivery commitments.
• Oversee all aspects of the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes - ensure accuracy and predictability of results and key metrics to enable planning our investment strategies with measurable outcomes, risks, and assumptions
• Oversee centralization and organization of siloed datasets and systems to deliver insights cross-functionally
• Oversee and support regulatory strategy, planning and testimony preparation
• Oversee the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics.
• Analyzes portfolio financial performance and recommends changes to achieve goals; uses reporting tools to monitor portfolio activities, and regularly brief IT and business leaders on portfolio performance to enable investment strategies for planning up to 10-year horizons
• Liaise closely with Finance and other Business Units to ensure accurate & robust budget monitoring
• Develops relationship across IT and our business units, with the goal of growing meaningful relationships that will facilitate collaborations and communications.
• Achieve results through others by setting and communicating goals and metrics, monitoring progress; providing ongoing coaching and feedback, and reinforcing behaviors that drive high performance.
• Manages the assessment of risks and the execution of plans to mitigate the risks.
• Communicates and champions the requirements necessary to execute the IT investment portfolio.
• Develops and manages service level agreements with business partners.
• Develops, prioritizes, coordinates, and communicates the goals and processes necessary for implementing the investment portfolio and critical programs/projects.
• Ensures compliance to Standards/regulations and governance processes.
• Ensures staff has the resources and skills needed to support all programs/initiatives/projects.
• Establishes individual and department objectives that are aligned with organization goals. Implements practices for staffing, EEO, diversity, performance management, development, reward and recognition, and retention.
• Manages the identification, analysis, valuation, and execution of system investments for program/project delivery and support operations; manages the execution of technology roadmaps
• Proactively engage with cross functional leadership to identify opportunities for business improvement and optimization

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• 5 or more years of experience in IT strategy planning and/or program management or other related area required
• Ability to influence business leadership and management decisions and drive ownership and acceptance of change to the business.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into IT solutions

• Ability to estimate the financial impact of IT decisions
• Excellent analytical and technical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Financial Planning & Analysis
• Utility industry experience
• Regulatory background
• People Leadership experience, IT-Information Technology and Finance
• PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification
• Ability to foster a work environment in which individuals collaborate in pursuit of a common mission and mutual goals
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Extensive knowledge of spreadsheet software, data visualization tools,
• E xtensive knowledge of financial modeling methodologies & techniques
• Experience in program management, financial management, & product/project analysis
• Proficient in conceptualizing creative solutions, as well as documenting them and presenting/selling them to senior management
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage to budgets
• Demonstrated ability to explain necessary trade-offs and balances between immediate and tactical needs or issues with leaders
• Capability to track program/project benefits realization and lessons learnt activities to feed into ongoing improvements
• Experience leading teams, people, projects, and developing people and their careers
• Organized, strategically focused, detail oriented, and able to deal with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment
• Highly collaborative, able to work cross-functionally; possessing the ability to forge relationships and partner effectively