Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a complex Financial Management System replacement project. The role involves extensive project management responsibilities, including vendor coordination, budget tracking, and stakeholder management.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate vendors and consultants, and IT and business staff
- Perform standard project management tasks such as tracking budget and expenditures, developing and tracking the schedule, identifying and mitigating risks, managing vendors, and supervising team member work
- Develop and present presentations to senior leadership
- Oversee and manage execution and/or coordination of day-to-day project activities
- Manage working relationships with key stakeholders, including executive management, business management, vendors, project sponsors, suppliers, and technology management
- Collaborate with external (vendor / Suppliers) and internal technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans
- Drive consistent project delivery through the entire project lifecycle, including, execution of procurements, definition of project plans, resource allocation, management of project risks, scope, and schedule, delivery of value, and well-ordered transitions to operations
- Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics
- Facilitates resolution of technical and non-technical risks and issues
- Leads and coordinates the scoping, technical requirements gathering, estimating and planning for single or multiple work-streams
Skills
- 8 Years of experience
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models
- Ability to understand technology at the level to help represent project team in multiple forums
- Strong experience leading business & IT resources through the discovery/documentation of business and technical requirements in request for solution proposal
- Exceptional knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall project management principles and practices
- Active PMP cert (from PMI). Pls upload a copy under the Reference Tab to be considered
- Ability to run scrum, kanban or waterfall project management best practices
- Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects
- Experience with Data Modernization & Enterprise Data Warehouse
- Expedience with Oracle Financials
- Technical Background
- Experience in managing projects to build, replace and implement Financial Management Systems
- Experience in leading large program with multiple workstreams
- Experience in working with vendors and implementing vendor solutions
- Preference for local candidate
- Mgr willing to make exception for the right candidate to work remotely
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