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Raymond James · 3 days ago

Senior IT Project Manager | Finance Technology

St. Petersburg, FL

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

6+ years exp

Raymond James is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager in Finance Technology to lead transformational initiatives within the finance domain. The role involves managing complex projects, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring effective communication and execution of project plans.

BankingFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyInsuranceWealth Management

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Communicates effective with technology leadership/key business stakeholders

Assist in developing and maintaining strategic technology roadmaps

Prepare for Technology/ Architectural Assessment of new solutions

Work with Procurement on requirements and evaluation of new vendors and/or solutions

Manage project resources, including partnering effectively with business SMEs and Project Stakeholders, Implementation Partners and across Technology Support teams

Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests by reviewing requirements and specifications to ensure they are aligned with organizational priorities, business objectives and are the most efficient usage of resources while not compromising value/quality

Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management to ensure complete and accurate definitions of business requirements and delivery of business applications

Develops, prepares, presents, and maintains project plans, including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets and work breakdown structures and schedules. Monitor projects progress and maintains documentation/reports for impacted consumers

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; maintaining precise documentation/artifacts required by PMO and Internal Audit; serving as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers; and communicating regularly with project stakeholders

Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives

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

Manages all aspects of the project budget including creating and maintaining resource allocations and actively tracking costs to the approved budget

Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree on recovery plans

Clarify roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes

Lead large project teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions across project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring

Qualification

Finance ERPEPMCloud TransformationProject ManagementPMP CertificationAzure DevOpsData WarehousingStrategic PlanningChange ManagementBusiness AcumenRisk ManagementLeadershipCollaboration

Required

Minimum of six (6) years of experience leading Finance Technology Transformation Initiatives including: project management, enterprise implementation, leadership experience, strategic planning, business acumen, applications development, and change management or combination of education, training and experience

Works at an advanced level to identify, verify, and manage changes to the scope of the project or program, utilizing the most appropriate approach

Works at an advanced level to identify, define, unify, and coordinate the various processes and activities to integrate the project management activities

Works at an advanced level to estimate each of the components of project, program, or portfolio work, including costs, activity durations, resource needs, risks, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program

Understands core procure to pay business functions and corresponding supporting technologies

Experience in working with vendors, business partners and key stakeholders

Understands and has experience managing Finance projects as well as Cloud Transformation initiatives

Plan and manage small project work assignments within desired cost, time and quality parameters

Establish and manage the quality policies, procedures, and responsibilities for a project or program that satisfies the needs for which it was undertaken

Identify, verify, and manage changes to the scope of the project or program, utilizing the most appropriate approach

Ability to read, analyze, interpret/link and apply knowledge to assignments

Use collaborative skills to accomplish work as a team

Detailed oriented with a big-picture orientation

Application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards

Finance Technology Architectures and related interdependencies

Project selection and approvals; budgeting and business case preparation and analysis; and project initiation and planning, including work breakdown structures and forecasting

MS Project or SmartSheets

Azure DevOps (TFS) or similar

Bachelor's: Accounting, Bachelor's: Business Administration, High School (HS) (Required)

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI)

Preferred

Experience managing large complex release cycles highly preferred

EPM/ERP platforms (Oracle, PeopleSoft, OneStream or HFM) preferred

Data Warehousing or Finance Data Store Implementations is preferred

PMP/ CSM or equivalent certification highly preferred

Company

Raymond James

Raymond James provides a range of investment banking services focused on the telecommunications and communications sectors.

Founded in 1962

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.raymondjames.com

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