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Job Responsibilities:

• Partners with project sponsors, stakeholder(s) and vendors to understand need, build business case
• Manage multiple complex projects or other process initiatives with cross-function and cross-region impact.
• Act as the point-of-contact for the extended project team, including the business and technology partners and management. Provide updates, resolve issues and establish project delivery vision for the team.
• Work with business partners to ensure sufficient and detailed project requirements are obtained and documented, based on thorough process analytics and customer input and design sessions across teams.
• Work closely with the development team to review and monitor implementation of specifications to ensure that the finished product meets the stated business requirements within project timelines
• Own project plans including an outline of required resource skills and scheduling, key deliverables and schedule and overall project plan.
• Ensures project is planned and completed by PMO standards and project methodologies
• Lead teams through the project lifecycle from identification to project execution and delivery.
• Leads high-quality delivery with responsibility for task tracking, time reporting, issue tracking, impact reporting, and overall project updates
• Escalates and owns full transparency around project status, issues, risks and drives them to a resolution on a timely basis
• Prepares and presents project status updates, reports and dashboards
• Drives root cause analysis and implements solutions
• Coordinates across project teams to ensure full alignment and resource engagement
• Provide detailed use cases, perform business testing and work closely with quality assurance to ensure the transition to Hartree production system is seamless
• Assist relationship management and client services in driving adoption of product enhancements
• Proactively analyze and propose system enhancements which can improve customer experience and create additional revenue

Job Requirements

• Experience in Financial domain
• Experience in working with Software vendors
• College graduate with a degree in Finance, Economics or Computer Engineering
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with both the business, technology. Across multiple locations and time zones.
• flexible, hardworking and "can do" attitude; comfortable working in a fast paced environment with frequent release cycles and rapidly changing priorities.
• Excellent technical skills; MS Excel, JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Word.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written are required.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle & DevOp