Project Manager (Payments / Fintech experience in Banking domain)

Role: Project Manager (Payments / Fintech experience in Banking domain)

Type: Only fulltime

Location: NY / Pittsburg, PA

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzes, defines and prioritizes the business requirements, functional specifications and operational architecture for up to and
  
  

including highly complex strategic, global programs.

• Provides consultation to IT and business management on applying technology to business opportunities and planning and
  
  

implementing cross-functional applications or systems. May allocate/coordinate work within a team/project.

• Elicits, challenges, and prioritizes requirements using standard processes and templates, and translates into functional design
  
  

and use case documents.

• Develops project scope, objectives, constraints and assumptions for a given large, strategic, multi-year project.
• Participates and provides guidance in development of the technical design, test plans, and user documentation.
• Consults internal business groups on requirements, functional architecture and implementation.
• Tracks scope and change throughout the remainder of the initiative utilizing formal requirements management principles,
  
  

including change control and requirements traceability.

• Gathers and analyzes information to assist in development of recommendations to address strategic business objectives that
  
  

span multiple, global business and technology areas.

• Participates in industry forums and keeps current on domain knowledge for their specific business and application areas of
  
  

expertise.

• Applies experiences with existing software and/or systems development processes to develop better processes to be used in
  
  

the future.

• Actively influences software development process improvement initiatives.
• Provides senior level consultation to internal business groups on process improvement projects designed to improve their
  
  

business results.

• Contributes to the achievement of related teams' objectives.
  
  

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in business or technical-related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred, 6-10 years of experience in providing consulting advice to senior IT and business management required, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus and prior experience in the liquidity domain is also a plus and preferred.