Senior IT Project Manager - Financial Reporting
Description
Company
SDI Presence LLC is a leading IT services firm that leverages its strong team presence to advance clients toward a secure digital enterprise. With a 30-year corporate resume, SDI delivers multi and hybrid cloud infrastructure managed services, consulting and advisory solutions, work and asset management solutions, and application modernization and managed services. SDI serves major airports, utilities, commercial real estate portfolios, and government agencies across the U.S. Connect with us on X and LINKEDIN.
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Summary
The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that the solution that is implemented satisfies the business requirements, meets contracted requirements, and delivers the value required by the client. The Senior IT Project Manager monitors the Scope of Work, Project Plan, schedule and is responsible for ensuring that deliverables and milestones are met and that the project is completed on time, within budget, and to the customer’s satisfaction. The Senior IT Project Manager plays a key role throughout the project.
Position Responsibilities
The Senior IT Project Manager’s responsibility includes oversight and reporting for the following areas:
- Project Integration Management – The processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated – consisting of project charter development, preliminary scope statement development, project management plan development, project management plan execution, and integrated change control
- Project Scope Management – The processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully – consisting of scope planning, scope definition, creating the work breakdown structure (WBS), scope verification, and scope control
- Project Time Management – The processes required to ensure timely completion of the project – consisting of activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, schedule development, and schedule control
- Project Cost Management – The processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget – consisting of cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control
- Project Quality Management – The processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken – consisting of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control
- Project Human Resource Management – The processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project – consisting of human resource planning and acquiring/ developing/ managing the project team
- Project Communications Management – The processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information – consisting of communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and managing stakeholders
- Project Risk Management – The processes concerned with identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk – consisting of risk management planning, risk identification, quantitative risk analysis, qualitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control
- Organizational change management (OCM) – The processes of adhering to change management principles to help mitigate the challenges that the organization will face when implementing the system
- Executive Buy-in: Make sure there is buy-in from leadership. Without buy-in from everyone in leadership the project will not be successful.
- Employee engagement: Organizational readiness is critical with IT projects to ensure all issues and opportunities are mitigated across the enterprise. Engaging and involving employees leads to quantifiable benefits realization in the long run
- Communications: Communication within an IT project is vital but incredibly difficult. Project and communications teams must have a plan for how they will provide updates and coach managers on how to best deliver the messages to their teams. Again, language, culture, and level of experience among end-users have a significant influence on messaging
- Training: Change management plans must be devised to address workforce transition to the new IT system and who will be super-users and trainers. Failing to fully develop a training strategy can have serious implications on the success of an IT implementation.
- Work closely with solution architects, technical teams (both internally and vendor), functional analysts to oversee project scope and track metrics on schedule, budget, and with high-quality deliverables
- Communicate effectively with clients and vendors regarding the IT project, technology, and functionality.
- Monitor required controls and propose improvements as required, including quality plans, issues and action logs, risk management plans, and change control plans, for all aspects of the project
- Responsible for monitoring design and implementation concerning Statement of Work, purchase orders, price quotes, and other contractual materials as part of scheduling and deploying resources
- Ensure business and assignment risks are identified, monitored, and managed to achieve minimal disruption to the project delivery and success
- Follow IT Methodology and all Governing processes.
- Reports to the Deputy Chief of Project Management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Management or a related field of study or four years of equivalent of years of experience in a related field
- Twelve years or more of experience in project management for a large complex or public sector company
- Ten years or more experience managing IT projects
- Experience with Financial reporting and budgeting applications.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint)
- Advanced proficiency in a Project Management application
- Experience working with diverse leadership and a strong record for driving a consensus.
- Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills
Skills and Experience (Preferred)
- Experience implementing the Kahua application
- Experience with the Public Sector
- Experience with integrations with other applications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
SDI Presence is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. SDI Presence makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
SDI Presence is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. SDI Presence makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Staffing Firms
SDI Presence does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between SDI Presence and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.