Project Manager
Project Manager
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Job Description
What we expect of you day to day.
- Builds high performing teams inspires team members and demonstrates leadership skills.
- Collaborates with business sponsors and technology subject matter experts to define scope and delivery strategy for solutions.
- Leads technical teams to assess requirements create estimates develop budgets and produce Technology Project Charters and other documentation needed for funding approvals.
- Perform project planning and scheduling manage tasks and coordinate project resources to meet objectives and timelines.
- Proactively identify manage and mitigate project risks and find ways to accomplish project goals in the context of dynamic business/technical environments.
- Provide high quality customer service and communicate project status (timelines progress and challenges) to technology and business stakeholders regularly.
- Achieve project goals by engaging effectively with stakeholders including enterprise architects and strategists technical subject matter experts business partners Visa senior management technology vendors and financial institutions and strategic partners as needed.
- Manage project budgets effectively by ensuring forecasts and actual charges are in line with approved bids and project costs are effectively controlled.
- Keep project status updated in project management tools and maintain meticulous records (e.g. project financials schedule issues risks change control decisions)
- Provide leadership to large global crossfunctional teams to deliver solutions involving multiple teams and applications.
- Anticipates change and identifies ways to overcome challenges and constraints to keep project activities on schedule to meet or exceed business partner expectations.
- Takes initiative to exhaust all avenues to resolve issues/problems before involving management escalation.
- Works with minimal direction able to resolve most issues independently.
- Provides clear concise communications to project stakeholders summarizes relevant facts for senior management and delivers with executive demeanour.
- Demonstrated ability to manage through influence.
- Executes through ambiguity and guides path to clarity.
- Set clear expectations with business partners to provide transparency into project initiation activities and manage daytoday interaction during project execution and delivery.
- Proactively identify manage and mitigate project risks and find ways to accomplish project goals in the context of dynamic business/technical environments.
- Provide high quality customer service and communicate project status (timelines progress and challenges) to Technology and business stakeholders regularly.
- Achieve project goals by engaging effectively with stakeholders at all management levels across Visa including enterprise architects and strategists technical subject matter experts business partners vendors and Visa senior management.
- Manage project budgets effectively by ensuring forecasts and actual charges are in line with approved bids and project expenses are effectively controlled.
- Ensure that all projects are in compliance with Visas Project Management Methodology and Key Controls
- Support PMO management with annual planning program funding approvals and program and project reporting functions.
- As a global organisation there may be need to take attend calls meetings after/before standard office hours during the week.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 23 set days a week (determined by leadership/site) with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications
5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD OR 8 years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Knowledge and experience of IT and ideally Network Processing
Experience working on payments system projects desirable
Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent qualification
Scrum Master experience and qualification desirable
Experience of supporting on small to medium complex IT projects/programmes with multiple
stakeholders with different and often conflicting needs
Experience and knowledge of the Project environment practices and processes
Experience of requirements collation and management
Experience of information/data analysis and preparation of succinct analysis reports
Excellent communication skills
Excellent MS Office Skills
Methodical approach and good eye for detail
Strong administrative skills.
Additional Information :
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
