Project Management

POSITION PURPOSE:

Directs various medium-sized systems projects of a moderately complex nature and coordinates a team of IT professionals to ensure projects meet goals and milestones. Acts as a liaison for communication between the client and the work team. Does not have supervisory responsibilities such as hiring and performance/pay reviews.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

Reports To: Program Manager
Primary Working Relationships: Database Consultant I, Data Consultant, Senior Database Analyst/Programmer, Senior Data Analyst, Database Analyst/Programmer, Data Analyst, Clients, Sales Executives.

Direct Reports: N/A

RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Responsible for assembling a small, part-time project team, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed to accomplish task, and developing schedules to ensure timely project completion. *

2. Participates in strategic planning sessions with both client and management to determine the scope and objectives of each project. *

3. Responsible for identifying the role of each project team member. *

4. Responsible for effectively coordinating the activities of the team to meet project milestones.*

5. Responsible for monitoring progress, then updating clients and management on that progress and addressing any conflicts between client expectations and actual work output. *

6. Responsible for resolving day-to-day operational problems and conflicts and recommends improvements where needed. *

7. Responsible for developing, maintaining, or enhancing systems and programs according to client specification. *

8. Assists in providing input/justification for project costs and budget impact.

9. Completes other tasks as assigned.

* Essential Functions

The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job, and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of position responsibilities.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS or equivalent education in a related discipline is required.
Related work experience can be substituted for educational requirement.

Job Related Experience:
Typically requires 5 yrs Project Management or Systems Implementation or related experience.

PMP Certification is a plus.

Management Experience:
Project management experience in coordinating small to medium projects is required.

Functional Area Skills/Knowledge:

1. An in-depth knowledge of how companies existing technology can address our customers’ needs.
2. A strong knowledge of the new technologies emerging in the financial data processing and CRM industries.
3. Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
4. Adaptability.
Strong written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills.
6. Banking knowledge.
7. The ability to effectively adapt to and apply rapidly changing technology to business needs.
8. A superior understanding of how critical project completion is to client satisfaction.
9. The ability to provide input/justification for project costs and budget impact.
10. The ability to monitor progress, then update clients and management on that progress and address any conflicts between client expectations and actual work output.
11. The ability to effectively coordinate the activities of the team to meet project milestones.
12. Some travel to client site is required.
13. Completes other tasks as assigned.

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Responsibilities:

• The Business Systems Analyst is responsible for delivering small to large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology to help our customer base achieve high performance

• The Business Systems Analyst’s role is to plan, design, develop and launch efficient business, financial and operations systems in support of core organizational functions and business processes

• This individual will be responsible for assisting the business process owners in facilitating the adoption of new or improved processes and/or procedures across the organization and in the planning, design, development and deployment of new applications and enhancements to existing applications in support of these processes

Key Responsibilities may include:

• Solicit and document business requirements

• Perform application design activities (i.e. writing functional designs)

• Lead gap analysis activities comparing business requirements to software

• Create functional requirements as an input to application design

• Assist with build, test and deploy activities

• Perform testing work

• Develop efficient code (if applicable)

Required:

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or Management Information Systems

• Minimum of 8 years IT experience in the area of Systems Analysis and Application Development/Deployment

• Significant experience in implementing ERP systems

• Thorough understanding of Project and Product Management, Sales and Distribution and Customer Relationship Management

• Must possess proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of organizational directives and their business goals as well as to maximize the value of IT system investments. Sound facilitation skills are a must

• Specific experience in implementing SAP is required with a minimum of one implementation/roll-out (complete lifecycle)

• Experience in SAP Technical Architecture and Development desired

• Particular experience in SAP ABAP is a plus

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Duties:

This position is responsible for managing online sales projects that are largely technical in nature. The role will be to champion E-Commerce technology and ensure technical projects and technical tasks of larger E-Commerce projects are scoped appropriately, tracked though the project lifecycle, and completed on schedule.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work within established project management practices to assist in the development and implementation process of E-Commerce projects involving inter-departmental, external vendors, and/or cross-functional teams

• Work with internal/external clients to gather business and technical requirements and coordinate project plans

• Monitor projects from initiation through delivery ensuring completion of the project on schedule

• Ensure that goals are accomplished and in line with online sale’s business objectives

• Work with a project team responsible for developing and carrying out projects for assigned business unit(s), products, services, processes, and technologies

• Monitor E-Commerce projects ensuring the technology is up to industry standards and quality as well as ensuring the consistency and integrity of the information

• Apply project monitoring and reporting systems and assist in the creation of assignments and project tasks

• Interact with project team in various functional areas to collect and prepare data for new projects

• Monitor projects for inefficiencies or disconnects and recommend solutions

• Typically responsible for specific and well-defined technical tasks assigned to a section of an online sales project and/or program Skills:

• Has represented the organization on technical projects and performed project leadership role

• Technical project management, software development, IT, or other computer engineering background is a must

• In-depth understanding of web technology and E-Commerce infrastructure highly desirable

• E-Commerce experience is a big plus Leadership / Supervision:

• Leads projects from beginning to end without instruction on routine work and little to no instruction on new assignments

• Success is evaluated upon project completion to ensure objectives have been met

• May provide guidance to lower level professional staff but has no formal supervisory responsibility Success Factors: • Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work through other people to get things done

• Detail and results oriented • Must be a self starter with a strong drive to succeed

• Good written and verbal communication skills • Good organizational and planning skills

• Ability to manage multiple assignments and respond to changing priorities

• Can perform under pressure in a fast paced environment

Education:

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent work experience

• 4-6 years web work experience

• 3 years technical project experience

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Purpose:

The Application Project Leader is responsible for analyzing, defining, implementing and supporting business solutions. The APL will work across functional lines (Customer Service, Credit, Finance, etc.) and will act as the main liaison between the Information Technology group and the business.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Main IT liaison to Customer Service line of business which includes: project management, prioritization and on-going support.
• Address, delegate and ensure completion of helpdesk issues in the Customer Service and Finance departments.
• Manage the relationship between the company, IBM and ACS as it relates to BPCS and associated applications.
• Coordinate the tasks of internal staff and external consultants on assigned projects.
• IT lead responsible for fiscal period close processing.
• Lead the process in conjunction with the business to document and ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations in the BPCS application.
• Support the C/Lect cash preprocessor application.
• Support the Siebel - eBPCS interfaces.
• Lead the IT effort to install and interface RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology.
• Support PowerBuilder internal application to manage stock locator system.

Knowledge/Experience/Competencies:

• Masters in Business or Information Systems or equivalent practical experience.
• Ten years with competency in multiple functional areas and multiple technical platform areas, systems development life cycle and project planning and control skills.
• Demonstrated skill in analysis and problem solving
• Excellent interpersonal skills with users, executives, internal IS staff and external resources.
• Ability to manage customer expectations for delivery of new systems, enhancements and maintenance projects.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent planning and execution skills.

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Responsibilities:

The primary function is to provide the day-to-day operational management of projects. This includes leading of planning meetings, developing and managing project plans, oversight of project controls, project reporting, metrics collection and assessment, risk management, contract management, and contingency planning.

Required Skills:

-Bachelor degree in a technical discipline
-5+ years of software or systems project management experience.
-Management of technical staff
-Familiarity with PMI practices and project controls.
-Previous management experience with software and systems design

-Successfully managing technical development projects to completion.

-- Experience managing software projects throughout the whole lifecycle

- Contractual/Commercial experience

- Must be execution minded and a great motivator of your team!

Desired Skills:

-PMP certification
-Experience with agile software development such as Scrum;
-Experience with Primavera (P3E) and Rational development suite of tools.

Your reward is a comprehensive compensation plan with generous benefits and a state-of-the-art work enviornment!

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