IT Senior Project Manager - M & A

Job Summary:

The IT Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, cross-functional technology and operational initiatives from initiation through closeout.  The IT Project Manager ensures scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk are actively managed, and that solutions transition successfully to operations with appropriate change management, training, and support readiness.

Job Duties:

• Oversees all aspects of assigned IT projects and programs, and takes ownership for ensuring their success
• Builds relationships with Business Line leaders, stakeholders, other managers, and within team
• Plans and directs the work effort involved with the implementation or upgrade of automated systems
• Provides project-based leadership for the justification, planning, implementation, and quality assurance testing of assigned projects
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, monitors and summarizes project progress
• Builds and maintains constructive working relationships with project team members, vendors, and other departments involved with assigned projects
• Develops scope documents, statements of work, and other documentation supporting the justification for assigned project
• Works with Business Line / Support Services process sponsors, the internal IT team, various other support groups within BDO USA, LLP, and third-party vendors to ensure that project efforts are controlled and completed on a timely basis
• Leads and directs the work of project teams to ensure project efforts are controlled and completed on a timely basis
• Works with appropriate subject matter experts, establish resource plans, expected level of effort and duration to complete tasks associated with assigned projects
• Prepares deliverables-based project plans to ensure the controlled execution of assigned projects and for use by project teams, management, and other parties
• Develops appropriate project issues and risk tracking documents
• Prepares project status reports for project team members, management, and other parties
• Reviews and understands or prepares, as needed, business requirements and objectives documentation in support of overall business needs
• Coordinates with appropriate resources to ensure that system rollout communications and training materials are made available as appropriate
• Works with technical and support teams to ensure a smooth transition from system implementation to production and ongoing support phases of a system’s lifecycle
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Leads and directs the day-to-day activities of the System Analyst(s), Project Managers & Product Team as needed
• Provides performance feedback for Career Advisee(s) throughout the performance year 
• Serves as a coach/mentor, supporting the career development and performance of Career Advisee(s)

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:

• High school diploma or GED, required 
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, preferred

Experience:

• Six (6) more years IT experience, required
• Experience as an IT Project Manager, Business Systems Analyst, Software Systems Analyst, Business Process Analyst, Technology Support Analyst, or Software Developer, required
• Experience using a standard project management methodology, required
• Experience leading and directing the work of others in a project-oriented capacity, preferred
• Experience with the concepts of Project Programs and Portfolios, preferred
• Familiar with a web-based applications environment, preferred
• Familiar with relational database concepts, preferred
• Previous experience working in a professional services firm, preferred

License/Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification, preferred
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, preferred

Software:

• Experience with a project planning application, preferred
• Experience managing projects in connection with any of the following, preferred: ServiceNow, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, Planner, DevOps , Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SharePoint

Language:

• N/A

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills
• Ability to manage multiple complex tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work independently and in a self-directed capacity
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected
• Strong team-building skills
• Demonstrated problem solving skills
• Ability to effectively organize and delegate complex tasks
• Ability to develop project plans and accomplish goals based on experience, educated assumptions and limited information
• Ability to adapt rapidly to new developments
• Familiarity with project ROI techniques (cost/benefit, NPV, IRR, Earned Value metrics)
• Ability to facilitate meetings efficiently and effectively
• Ability to develop project documentation using diagrams and prose
• Ability to develop project plans and related documentation using diagrams and prose based on customer collaboration
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $120,000 - $155,000                                                                                                                                                       

Maryland Range:  $120,000 - $155,000 
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range:  $120,000 - $155,000