Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. City National Bank is seeking a senior Project Manager in Technology to manage large and complex projects that impact business processes and technology firm-wide. The role involves strategic planning, project execution, and delivering comprehensive solutions while liaising with stakeholders and senior management. The position requires managing project risks, budgets, teams, and ensuring technology standards compliance.
Responsibilities
- Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests by reviewing requirements and specifications and testing and by reviewing support and training plans to ensure they are aligned with organizational priorities, business plans, and objectives
- Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management team to ensure complete and accurate definitions of business requirements and delivery of business applications
- Identifies, defines, and documents complex business and technical requirements, processes, and deliverables
- Develops, prepares, presents, and maintains project plans, including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets, and work breakdown structures and schedules
- Performs project risk assessments, including identifying key risk factors, providing effective mitigation strategies, and assigning contingency action plans to both schedules and budgets
- Manages projects and teams, including applying established methodologies, using change control templates and processes; managing time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools; monitoring budgets; coordinating resource acquisition and utilization; serving as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers; and communicating regularly with project stakeholders
- Delivers systems on appropriate platforms in compliance with established technology standards, including monitoring testing, executing quality assurance checks, and ensuring information technology acceptance criteria is met prior to implementation
Skills
- Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or applicable degree
- Seven years of experience including project management, enterprise implementation, leadership experience, strategic planning, business acumen, applications development, and change management or a combination of education, training, and experience
- Knowledge of application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards
- Understanding of project selection and approvals, budgeting and business case preparation and analysis, and project initiation and planning, including work breakdown structures and forecasting
- Familiarity with concepts of risk management, issue tracking, change management, and requirements gathering
- Knowledge of information technology support and technical documentation
- Understanding of principles of banking and finance and securities industry operations
- Experience in business planning and analysis
- Knowledge of project budget interfaces with other accounting systems
- Competencies include analysis, communication, exercising judgment and decision-making, technical and professional knowledge, building effective relationships, and client focus
- PMP or equivalent certification highly preferred
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401K
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