Friday, November 7, 2008

Project Manager

Client is one of the nation's top private managers of both fixed income and credit instruments.

Candidates needs to be able to manage Agile processes and Scrum processes – needs financial services - and good PM experience

DESCRIPTION:

This position will be working directly with one of the business units. The person will participate as the project manager across all technology related initiatives from inception to implementation. This position will monitor and document progress, report on milestone deliverables, risks and costs across ongoing technology initiatives.


RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Monitor and document project task list and progress for assigned projects
• Attend project status meetings and works closely with the development team lead and business analyst to document project status
• Develop reports/dashboard for project on milestones, deliverables, risks and budget
• Maintains burn rate by project, provides budgeted vs. actual cost analysis
• Maintains overall project task list that includes tasks/issues/risks across all technology initiatives
• Maintains overall project calendar that includes mid level plans across all technology initiatives
• Responsible for overall status reporting to Technology Steering Committee
• Facilitates inter project communication and is the Contact point for the Steering committee; Responsible for coordinating / maintaining task list and initiatives for Steering committee
• Works closely with business analysts/development managers to document inter-project risks
• Responsible for project coordination toolset and project reporting standards
• Responsible for implementation PLC process across all technology initiatives


TECHNOLOGY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:
• Experience with a large, functionally diverse, and informed user base that demands high quality applications.
• Experience with reporting status, milestones, deliverables across multiple technology initiatives
• Experience with project management reporting tools
• Exposure to investment concepts / terminology and systems related to fixed income investments
• Exposure to financial application implementation related to fixed income investments
• Familiarity with multiple architectures: n-tier, .NET, client-server, etc. and multi-system application integration
• Fundamental understanding of software development lifecycle



QUALIFICATIONS:

• PMP certification required
• 2-3 years experience in the project management and reporting
• 5-6 years experience in software development and technology implementation
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills


Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.