Project Manager

Company Description

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**Job Description**:
A Project Manager at MUFG IS is an influential change agent/trusted advisor with business and technology who drive and implement organizational priorities that add value. Project managers play a key advisory and change/ project leadership role in the projects’ early initiation phase (i.e., business casing) to the structuring of the project to implementation and handoff to BAU. In order to be effective in their role, Project Managers must be (1) resourceful and be strong relationship managers; Building strong working relationships with the project and organizational stakeholders at every level of the organization must be second nature, (2) Bring a blend of strong execution expertise and business knowledge, (3) adept at mitigating and managing risk and (4) have excellent communication, impact/influence and facilitation abilities.

As a key member of the PMO team, the Project Manager directs and controls a variety of projects (typically 3 at a time) throughout a global organization, ensuring that the projects are conducted on time, within budget using project management best practices to ensure the highest level of quality. Implementing effective governance throughout the project lifecycle and managing the day to day operation aspects of the projects - Plan, budget, RAID, Resource and Status to ensure project objectives are achieved. Project Managers also supports the PMO with portfolio and resource planning and reporting.

**You Will**:

- Ensure successful, timely and effective delivery of change projects
- Developing project plans, budgets and schedules, managing tasks and teams on the project’s critical path
- Responsible for scope control with stakeholders, task execution with the project team and relevant upward communication to managers and senior stakeholders
- Helps define process improvements and feedback for the project, including any strategies required for timely execution
- Gather or track the completion of necessary artifacts required for development of each project, including but not limited to: risk assessments, technical architecture drawings, requirements, change plans, etc.
- Provide feedback to project stakeholders, including specification feedback, issue escalation to managers or scope changes/clarifications to project resources
- Update relevant project information in real time
- Work across all departments to deliver projects that align to the organization's strategic vision
- Assess and manage risks and issues, take corrective measurements accordingly
- Resolve cross-project issues and strategic issues with senior stakeholders
- Guard the viability of the vision and the business case

**Qualifications**:

- Financial Services background, preferably Fund Admin and Banking
- Demonstrable experience managing projects across business and technology
- Demonstrated technical and business project Management skills
- Proven track record of effectively managing and delivering projects on-time, within scope and on budget
- Successful track record in working with business and technology teams to define, develop, test and launch new products/services
- Experience in authoring project plans, building a project budget and technical requirements
- Experience with Agile, Lean, waterfall, hybrid and other project management methodologies are beneficial
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred
- Experience with Smartsheets, Jira, Confluence project management tools are an asset
- Ideally certified or studying towards a relevant professional Project Management certification (PMP, Scrum/Agile certificates)

Additional Information

Experience something Brilliantly **Different** with a career with MUFG Investor Services.

Who are we? In a nutshell, MUFG Investor Services is part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group family, and we partner with over 480 loyal global investment firms to provide them with administration, asset services, banking, and fund financing.

We’re in 14 global locations and provide an exceptional hub of Brilliantly** Different** talent to thrive.

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