Project Associate - Corporate Functions (Finance) || Project Coordinator

Summary: The Project Associate - Corporate Functions (Finance) role involves leading and managing projects within a remote or hybrid setting, ensuring timely delivery within scope and budget. The position requires a minimum of three years of professional experience in project management, particularly in IT methodologies. The candidate will be responsible for project planning, risk management, and maintaining comprehensive documentation while collaborating with various stakeholders. Strong financial acumen and proficiency in project management tools are essential for success in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead assigned projects ensuring delivery on time, within scope and within budget
• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with resource capacity and actuals analysis
• Liaise with resource managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule
• Utilize risk management strategies to actively manage project risks that may impact project cost, quality, scope or schedule
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Review and approve timecards associated with your project
• Create business case financial models
• Forecast, monitor and report on project financials, and maintain financials in project management tools Manage change requests by assessing impact to scope, schedule and cost; and communicate with key stakeholders
• Liaise with the supplier management groups as needed on supplier engagement, quality of services, experience and cost
• Partner with the project team to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, standards, procedures, and associated documentation including but not limited to computer systems validation, SOX, and PM standards Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports
• Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums
• Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business cases
• Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
• Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria and deliver project to meet those metrics and criteria
• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
• Assist, share learning, and mentor others within the PMO regarding standards, organizational understanding, and relationship building to promote the successful delivery of projects

Key Skills:

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in project management
• Proven record of planning and delivering projects
• Experience managing remote project teams
• Proficiency in creating project plans and timeline Gantt charts
• Experience in full project management lifecycle for software/maintenance/development/implementation projects
• Knowledge of IT methodologies (ITIL) preferred
• Experience with projects in multiple technologies and functions
• Strong customer relationship management skills
• Core competencies in project management basics, MS Office 365, Excel, and basic finance/accounting skills

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT