Sr. Project Manager W/ Mortgage Experience

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Sr. IT Project Manager W/ Mortgage Experience

Location: Iselin NJ

Duration : Long Term

Interview Process: Direct In-person Interview.

EAD-GC / GC/USC - Required.

Key Skills:

· Must have experience in Mortgage industry and must have handled projects in the domain.

· Mortgage experience related to Loan originations – retail and Wholesale.

Scope/Purpose of the Position:

We are seeking a highly qualified Senior Project Manager to perform a lead role in managing the implementation of enterprise software solutions. The selected Project Manager must maintain control of project schedule, quality, budget and risk issues. The candidate must:

• Facilitate timely decisions to maintain project schedule, quality and budget.
• Provide management with regular project updates, maintain trusting relationships, identify project risks early and assist by providing prudent and timely recommendations for risk avoidance.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff for both project and career growth, and make staff development recommendations.

Major Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Lead large complex projects to achieve key business objectives.
• Strong project management process
• Execution knowledge in defining, understanding and managing scope and solution and related issues.
• Estimates, planning work breakdown structure (WBS), base-lining project plans and tracking projects estimate variances.
• Monthly revisions to rolling forecast (month over month) of project expenses and variances with allocated budgets and tracking any variances in monthly expenditure & understanding impacts to forecast.
• Managing cross-application test planning, execution & status reporting.
• Understanding qualitative and quantitative benefits of the projects and impact to benefits due to changes and issues.
• Understanding drivers for change and managing a change (scope / schedule / cost / benefits / quality).
• Understanding / defining stake holder expectations, issue escalation paths and managing the project communications / change communications at appropriate levels / intervals to proactively mitigate potential new issues due to communication fall-out.
• Responsible for coordinating with other teams and application areas as necessary to resolve schedule and other interdependency challenges.
• Provides subject matter expertise in areas including program management, projectmanagement, project scope definition, risk identification, project methodology, resource allocation, facilitation, and other project management areas.
• Drives risk/issue resolution, and appropriate escalations.
• Develop and manage work breakdown structure (WBS) of information technology projects.
• Effective communication of IT changes / issues / risks / mitigation / action plans.
• Effective planning / management of meetings & tracking of minutes / action items to closure.
• Strong understanding of variations between release management & project management.
• Effectively manage/direct cross-application, cross-functional and cross-segment teams.
• Develop and manages IT/business plans to achieve objectives.
• Solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the IT / business.
• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences.
• Influencing senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and approaches.
• Understanding of IT Project life cycles, artifacts & versioning and key-stake holder sign-offs.

SKILLS/ABILITIES:

Successful candidate will possess:

• Problem solving ability to analyze and challenge conventional thought processes and use experience and/or intuition to create pragmatic solutions
• Demonstrate a flexible mindset by adapting to and helping drive change
• Committed to taking responsibility and ownership for agreed actions and delivery.
• Demonstrating a positive attitude and standing firm
• Basic understanding of SQL or similar analytical toolset
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, and excellent data analytic skills
• Ability to allocate time efficiently; handle multiple demands and competing priorities
• Ability to thrive under production pressure and deadlines
• Strong communication (verbal and written), time management skills, fast learner, self‐ motivated, and comfortable taking initiative and handling multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to be a persuasive leader who can serve as an effective member of the leadership team and communicate project management and business analysis related concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical employees
• Mortgage practice experience a must specifically in the retail space
• Experience with Microsoft project
• Exposure to multiple PM methodologies