Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.
Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence.
Job Description
Location: Houston, TX
Job Title: Project Manager - Finance Systems
Role Summary/Purpose:
The Senior Project Manager – Finance Systems will be leading to develop & execute project plan working with peers, project team members and business SMEs; define and update project status with rigorous rhythm; highlight and mitigate project risks to leadership team.
Responsibilities:
- Engage and collaborate with IT and business partners to deliver solutions
- Drive all phases of Project Development cycle
- Perform Project Management of all tasks, estimating and tracking progress against individual plan, and monitoring development activity to overall enterprise plan
- Develop effective communication strategy across projects and constituency
- Participate in identifying requirements and use cases to ensure a clear and complete understanding of the requirements
- Translate high-level business requirements into functional specifications for development or application evaluation and develop process designs to support business solutions
- Be responsible for the design and execution of integrated (Business, functional, and technical) test plans
- Act as a liaison between business and application/change management area throughout deployment of projects
- Be accountable for operational excellence of assigned program(s), with duties including project reviews, feasibility, cost benefit analysis, prioritization, initiation, execution, and closure for all project work related to the program
- Maintain effective working relationships with peers and vendors to seamlessly integrate the program area into the overall strategic objectives and activities of the organization
- Coordinate program support activities, including the development of internal and external communications, establishing roadmaps, processes & procedures and benchmarks, and developing training plans
- Manage daily activities, issue resolution, and communication across Project Execution teams in order to deliver projects on-time, on-budget, as-requested by customer
- Ensure conformance of established architecture, standards, and practices
- Lead the analysis, requirement development, design, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of large/complex IT solutions for business processes
- Initiate direct communication with a wide range of customer, client, supplier, and systems personnel. Prepare, present, and review project plans, status reports, cost/benefit studies, and recommend funding and resources
- Ensure conformance to system architecture, methods standards and practices, and participate in their creation
- Participate in the preparation of long-range systems plans, to ensure that they are in concert with business objectives and goals
Qualifications
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, or Finance from accredited college or university
- Minimum 5 years of experience with current information technologies and their implementation into the business function
Desired Characteristics:
- Proficient Microsoft Project skills
- Extensive Project Management experience, thorough understanding of project life cycle
- Proven leadership skills, in both project planning and information management
- Knowledge of Oracle EPM applications with additional hands-on experience
- Ability to use Six Sigma/equivalent Quality tools and techniques to drive change
- Strong oral and written communication skills & proven interpersonal skills
- Capable and influential at project management
- Quality and cost driven
- Experienced in CAP (Change Acceleration Process)
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