What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Senior Project Manager - Finance position at LanceSoft, Inc.?
Title: Senior Project Manager (IT with focus on Finance and High Radius)
Location: Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA, 07417
Duration: 09/17/2024 to 03/29/2025 (6 months, 12 days)
Position: Hybrid
Description:
Responsibilities
Interpersonal Skills
Qualifications
Must haves
Preferred
Location: Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA, 07417
Duration: 09/17/2024 to 03/29/2025 (6 months, 12 days)
Position: Hybrid
Description:
- The HRC Project Manager will be responsible to assist the Program Manager in leading the deployment of High Radius within Client.
- The project scope consists of enabling Finance credit and collections functionality in High Radius.
- The Project Manager will need to build effective relationships with stakeholders such as Functional Leads, Business Partners, Project Owner(s), Business Analysts, and Vendors regarding project requirements.
- Project Manager must be versed in Finance functionality and be able to operate in an Agile, Waterfall, and/or hybrid project methodologies.
- The Project Manager will need to communicate across different countries/time zones as team members.
Responsibilities
- The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in driving IT projects and have a functional understanding of the finance function.
- Implement a finance product high radius collection and facilitate organizational adaptation.
- Liaison with stakeholders such as Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Manager, Vendors, and End-users regarding project requirements.
- Develop and execute project plans, including timelines, budgets, and resources, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic objectives.
- Manages project milestones to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, quality, and scope of project.
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation according to the Client project management life cycle guidelines.
- Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track the progress of the project including scope, critical success factors, deliverables, work breakdown structure, project schedule, budget, quality, resource plan, stakeholder management, and communications.
- Manage scope change requests and coordinate with the Project Owner for further action.
- Coordinate with business stakeholders and vendors for the seamless execution of projects.
- Measure project performance using appropriate project management tools.
- Perform risk management analysis to reduce project risks.
- Report and escalate risks to the management, as needed.
- Prepare project status reports in coordination with the other PMO members.
- Core Competencies, Skills, and Knowledge
- Program Management Concepts
- Proven experience in project management, particularly in establishing and driving IT projects related to the finance function.
- Strong understanding of corporate finance and human resources processes.
- Has practical knowledge of the core Program Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) concepts and principles (e.g., agile, work breakdown structure, waterfall planning)
- Demonstrated experience in driving projects from initiation through closure.
- Skilled in establishing detailed scope, schedule, resources, and budget using standard project tools (MS Project/SharePoint/etc.)
- Experienced establishing Stakeholder management plans, Risk/issue management plans, Vendor management plans and Quality plans.
- Experienced establishing and following controls to manage scope change and reporting project schedule/budget performance.
- Proactive in surfacing risks and issues.
- Ability to engage project team and stakeholder community to resolve issues and define risk mitigations.
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Establishes and maintains effective relationships with internal customers.
- Is committed to meeting internal customers’ expectations and needs while applying the concepts of objectivity and transparency.
- Has communication proficiency to engage with external customers and suppliers.
- Leadership Skills and Presence
- Gains support by actively and consistently involving others.
- Has an awareness of the audience and cultural and ideological differences and knows how to engage them and have an impact on their decisions and behaviors.
- Capable of building a leadership presence that inspires project stakeholders and team members to achieve the project objectives.
- Proactive in driving creative resolutions to project issues and risk.
Interpersonal Skills
- Experienced in the techniques to work in a virtual/cross cultural meeting environment.
- Ability to lead effective meetings/workshops. Creating meeting objectives, agendas, and timely distribution of meeting minutes.
- Ability to manage meeting discussions to achieve meeting objectives and timeline.
Qualifications
Must haves
- 10 years of project management work experience using PMBOK guidelines.
- 5 years experience focused on finance tools and technologies
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools including, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, Project, SharePoint.
Preferred
- BS in business administration or project management with 6 years working in a global manufacturing company in FDA regulated environment.
- ACP, SCRUM Certification, PMP, PgMP, Prince II, or equivalent.
- Experience in managing large scale transformation projects.
- Working knowledge of High Radius Collections
Salary : $90 - $94
