Project Manager - Payroll, Excel, PowerPoint

Denken Solutions - Tampa, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Tampa, FL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Project Manager will oversee multi-faceted projects within a financial services environment, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet stakeholder expectations. This role requires strong leadership skills to manage project scope, risks, and communication among various teams and clients, while applying best practices in project management methodology.

Responsibilities

• Manages multi-faceted projects or multiple projects at the same time.
• Organizes new challenges and drives business results.
• Uses best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers' needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes.
• Drives results of the project as a representative of the business.
• Works closely with End Users, Technology, and other Organizations to define project scope and objectives for project members.
• Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports.
• Assesses project risk potentials and discovers potential problems before they occur.
• Applies a proactive approach in routinely tracking the project participant's progress against project goals.
• Defines and enforces the use of good project management practices such as techniques in resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored, and controlled.
• Identifies and where required amends the approach to the context and constraints of each project.
• Possesses the knowledge, skills, and experience to recognize when problems surface or potential problems are looming.
• Articulates problems, brings the right people together to solve problems and knows when the problem has been properly addressed and closed.
• Promotes partner involvement through effectively communicating project status upward and to the Client.
• Applies lessons learned from recent projects to future projects.
• Communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential customer escalation issues.
• Proactively follows escalation and change control processes.
• Owns all management reports on a given engagement.
• Promotes good working relationships across a project, cultivating the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders.
• Appropriately assesses risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Client, its clients, and assets.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of project management experience preferably from a financial services environment.
• PMP certification is strongly preferred, and Six Sigma is a plus.
• Ability to develop project plans, and manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions, and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time, and risk.
• Manage client expectations, anticipate operational and tactical risks and track them; clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues, and escalate to the immediate manager where required.
• Proficient in MS Office applications (with advanced experience in Excel), MS Project, VISIO, and Adobe Acrobat Professional is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Stay abreast of current industry trends and new technology through professional associations, trade journals, networking, and associated training and seminars.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible working hours