Job Description
Job DescriptionWe are looking for an experienced Project Manager/Sr. Consultant to lead coordination and delivery oversight across multiple technology initiatives within a Financial Services environment. This contract position will partner with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership to keep workstreams aligned, visible, and advancing according to plan. The role is ideal for someone who can bring structure to complex efforts, turn updates into clear actions, and provide concise reporting that supports informed decision-making.
Responsibilities:
• Create a consistent cadence for portfolio reviews, progress checkpoints, action tracking, and leadership communications across several concurrent initiatives.
• Collect updates from project owners and delivery teams, then convert that information into clear summaries, dashboards, and reports for business and technology leaders.
• Keep initiatives moving by identifying obstacles, confirming next steps, assigning follow-up actions, and monitoring commitments against agreed timelines.
• Maintain a consolidated view of milestones, interdependencies, risks, assumptions, decisions, resource considerations, and upcoming deliverables.
• Facilitate collaboration among teams working on connected efforts so that sequencing, stakeholder impact, and escalation points are identified early and managed effectively.
• Develop materials for executive meetings, steering committees, and working sessions with a focus on progress, open decisions, measurable outcomes, and key risks.
• Work closely with internal technology groups, product stakeholders, enterprise partners, security teams, and external vendors to sustain alignment and delivery momentum.
• Support planning activities by helping define scope, governance structure, success measures, milestone plans, and ownership across initiatives.
• Monitor issues and risks through resolution, escalating when clarity is needed around accountability, timelines, or decision authority.
• Encourage effective use of project and collaboration platforms such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, SharePoint, and PowerPoint to improve delivery transparency.• At least 5 years of experience leading or coordinating technology programs, projects, or delivery efforts in a complex technical setting.
• Proven ability to oversee multiple initiatives simultaneously while maintaining strong governance, reporting accuracy, and delivery visibility.
• Strong organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to translate informal updates into actionable plans, ownership, due dates, and documented decisions.
• Experience preparing executive-ready status reports, dashboards, presentation materials, and written updates for senior stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of technology delivery methods across software, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, vendor-led initiatives, and Agile or hybrid delivery models.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to resolve ambiguity, ask precise questions, and escalate issues professionally.
• Proficiency with tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Smartsheet, and related collaboration platforms.