What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at Foundation Finance Company Careers?
The Project Manager is responsible for organizing teams to deliver project(s) spanning one or more functional areas. This role works with stakeholders to understand project objectives, identify workstreams and build out timelines, regularly monitor progress toward deliverable dates and proactively address scheduling conflicts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Clarify and drive project commitments as well as establish and maintain clear chains of accountability, both inside and outside of the IT department.
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating collaboration, innovation and excellence.
- Set and track project milestones; manage and account for unforeseen delays, then realign schedules and expectations as needed.
- Establish and implement project communication plans, providing status updates to affected departments and staff.
- Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives.
- Lead an interdepartmental team to complete the assigned project on time, to specifications, and with accuracy and efficiency.
- Maintain project and program timeline schedules completing within budget close.
- Collect, analyze, and summarize information and trends to guide strategic analysis for projects and the team.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Must be able to come to work promptly and regularly. Must be able to take direction and work well with others. Must be able to work under the stress of deadlines. Must be able to concentrate and perform accurately. Must be able to react to change productively.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or related field; 3 years of related experience in project management, including tracking and planning projects, working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment, gathering requirements from the client/ business and documentation.
- Relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
Experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall required.
PMP, PgMP, CAPM and or comparable project management certification preferred.
Experience in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft Projects, Atlassian Confluence/JIRA, etc. preferred.