1498 Data Project Manager - at Los Angeles, CA

[Radhakrishna Spectra Group]

DATA Project Manager -

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Long Term

 

Skill set is as follows:
Minimum of 5 years’ project-related experience

• Experience managing projects with moderate/high level of value (benefit/cost), and moderate/high level of complexity and uncertainty
• Experience managing projects involving Corporate Financials Data Governance, Regulatory Reporting, Data Risk Management required
• Experience operating within a formal Business or IT PMO (a plus)
• Undergraduate degree in Business or Engineering (preferred)
• PMP certification or equivalent (preferred)

 

Data PM

Duties:

• Plans and executes projects with moderate level of value (benefit/cost), and medium level of complexity and uncertainty including managing project scope, requirements change, largely understood or limited competing demands and priorities as well as determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk using appropriate fact-based metrics / assumptions.
• Works with Business/Technology Owners to ensure that the deliverables achieve the business result that enables value creation.
• Seeks out industry trends and organizational knowledge to understand alternative approaches and/or solutions.
• Facilitates joint planning with the client in the early stages of project formation.
• Develops integrated baseline project plans applying estimated models; documents estimating assumptions, refines plans and manages performance against them.
• Determines quality standards and oversees the execution / production of management documents.
• Identifies and manages project costs and budgets anticipating operational and some tactical risks.
• Raises and tracks issues and conflicts, removes barriers, resolves minor project issues and escalates them to immediate manager when required.
• Facilitates schedule and cost forecasting; supported by a mentor project manager, where applicable, in determining risk-based provisions.
• Ensures the development of benefits statements and aligns deliverables and costs with confirmed benefit projections.
• Sets up appropriate governance and oversight of assigned projects.
• Anticipates and quantifies tactical and operational risks applying risk-based approach to forecasting.
• Documents and resolves issues and conflicts and escalates to Sponsor level where required.
• Conducts project closure activities. Ensures projects follow established standards including delivery life cycle methods and meets audit requirements.
• Ensures the production and approval of all required project artifacts.
• Manages project communications including status reports to executives, stakeholders, business units, vendors, project team, etc. 
• Provides senior management with timely updates on project issues. Identifies resources and skills required.
• Recommends external vendors and third parties (consultants, off-shoring, outsourcing) and manages the relationships at the project level.
• Provides solid client experience and strengthens relationships with all key stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain full stakeholder register for all defined projects.
• Engages Technology specific governance processes to ensure IT Risk and compliance due diligence is applied, ensuring project adheres to applicable risk and compliance procedures, as relevant to impacts resulting from the change being introduced by the project.
• Ensure Technology specific change management processes are adhered to by IT Project team members, where applicable, in developing, managing and tracking deliverables for the project.
• Utilize applicable technology specific processes and designated tools for project cost recovery of project team resources.
• Conduct Technology mandated client satisfaction survey is administered at the close of project.
• Timely engagement with RBC specific regulatory, compliance, finance, operational risk, supplier management, and other specific local or enterprise wide business processes, as determined by financial implications of the project’s costs, and the specific impacts of the change being introduced by the project.
• Facilitate Project Sponsor awareness of internal factors affecting Organizational Change that need to be planned for and managed accordingly based on degree of change being introduced into the organization by the project.
• Contribute to the pipeline of continuous improvement of Project Management processes and procedures at the PMO level, and enterprise wide, through application best practices for harvesting and sharing Lessons Learned

 

Regards,

Radhakrishna

radha....@spectragrp.com