Project Manager

About the role

The UMB Governance organization within Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) is comprised of IT leaders, project managers, architects, software engineers, and analysts coming from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Functionally, the Governance Organization provides guidance and oversight to IT processes, projects, capacity, and risk management functions to ensure appropriate strategies, policies, and controls are executed effectively and efficiently. We share a strong commitment to ensuring our enterprise-level systems are performing at peak capacity and believe in fully supporting each other to achieve this goal.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects within the constraints of scope, quality, time, and cost, to deliver specified requirements and meet sponsor, management, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Manage and deliver the required products for each project, phase, or stage of a project based on that project's work plan including obtaining signoff from project sponsor on deliverables and project completion.
• Ensure quality is achieved as planned to include enabling quality assurance and quality control as appropriate.
• Deliver and ensure adherence to time, budget, and deliverables and project milestones within agreed tolerances, manage tradeoffs between scope, schedule, quality, and cost, and monitor and control the progress of the project at an operational level.
• Obtain, direct, motivate, and manage people; and manage the work and resources involved.
• Establish and update project plans and project schedules with forecasts and actuals and manage deviations from plan.
• Report to respective stakeholders through various methods including team meetings, status reports; steering committee or oversight meetings; etc.
• Liaise with project sponsors, customers, vendors or partners and facilitate communication to all involved as appropriate and manage expectations with all stakeholders.
• Escalate decisions and unresolved issues to the next level of management.
• Communicate, facilitate, and manage resolution to complex issues and challenging situations and personnel.
• Conclude the work upon completion or premature cessation; prepare lessons learned and appropriately close all financial budget and project issues.
• Close all project documentation and archive appropriate records. Ensure proper hand off to maintain ongoing support, as needed.
• Ensure the visibility of the business case or project scope.
• Ensure all project requirements and objectives are properly documented and communicated throughout the project team.
• Verify the Key Success Indicators as the basis for managing the project.
• Ensure EPMO methodology, standards, process, and procedures are followed on all projects.
• Communicate and train team members on processes where needed such as change control, procurement, etc.
• Document, obtain approval, and enforce project change management with all stakeholders.
• Make recommendations to improve methodologies, processes, and templates.
• Obtain and manage project budget and approve of all project expenditures.
• Tracks expected versus actual expenditures and provides budget reports to Manager of EPMO and Senior or Executive Management when required.
• Facilitate project risk reviews and proper mitigation.
• Review contracts, statements of work and ensure proper sign-offs and involvement of key associates.
• Interview and approve project contract resources, when needed; and internal UMB potential new hires as requested by Resource Managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or related discipline AND at least 3 progressive years in IT project management.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology, terminology, and techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to be goal-oriented and action-focused, pragmatic, and self-disciplined.
• Advanced proficiency at project planning, organizing, team motivation, and delegation.
• Bonus Points if you have Banking industry experience.
• Experience leading fraud projects.
• PMP certification.
• Knowledge and use of a Project Portfolio Management tool (i.e. Sciforma, MS Project, Primavera etc.).

Qualifications

• Applicants must have legal authority to work in the United States.

Benefits

• Compensation Range: $98,208 - $144,705
• Umb offers competitive and varied benefits to eligible associates, such as Paid Time Off; a 401(k) matching program; annual incentive pay; paid holidays; a comprehensive company sponsored benefit plan including medical, dental, vision, and other insurance coverage; health savings, flexible spending, and dependent care accounts; adoption assistance; an employee assistance program; fitness reimbursement; tuition reimbursement; an associate wellbeing program; an associate emergency fund; and various associate banking benefits.

Schedule

This role is hybrid (Mon through Thu on-site / Fri remote) at the UMB Technology & Operations Center located in downtown Kansas City, MO.