Role Overview:
- Manages large and/or multiple projects with significant impact on business processes and technology firm-wide.
- Influences strategic direction and develops tactical plans with substantial latitude.
- Provides comprehensive solutions to complex problems and has extensive contact with internal clients and the business.
- Manages complex projects from proposal and requirements definition to project planning and implementation, using broad input from industry and/or business unit subject matter experts.
location: LOS ANGELES, California
job type: Contract
salary: $56 - 66 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests:
- Reviews requirements and specifications.
- Tests and reviews support and training plans.
- Ensures alignment with organizational priorities, business plans, and objectives.
- Reviews requirements and specifications.
- Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management:
- Ensures complete and accurate definitions of business requirements.
- Delivers business applications.
- Ensures complete and accurate definitions of business requirements.
- Identifies, defines, and documents complex business and technical requirements, processes, and deliverables.
- Develops, prepares, presents, and maintains project plans:
- Includes staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets, and work breakdown structures.
- Prepares schedules.
- Includes staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets, and work breakdown structures.
- Performs project risk assessments:
- Identifies key risk factors.
- Provides effective mitigation strategies.
- Assigns contingency action plans to schedules and budgets.
- Identifies key risk factors.
- Manages projects and teams:
- Applies established methodologies.
- Uses change control templates and processes.
- Manages time and records activities using defined scheduling tools.
- Monitors budgets.
- Coordinates resource acquisition and utilization.
- Serves as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers.
- Communicates regularly with project stakeholders.
- Applies established methodologies.
- Delivers systems on appropriate platforms:
- Complies with established technology standards.
- Monitors testing.
- Executes quality assurance checks.
- Ensures IT acceptance criteria are met before implementation.
- Complies with established technology standards.
- 6-9 Years Experience Required
- Education: Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or a related field.
- Experience: Seven years including project management, enterprise implementation, leadership experience, strategic planning, business acumen, applications development, and change management.
- Certification: PMP or equivalent certification highly preferred.
- Knowledge Required:
- Application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards.
- Project selection and approvals; budgeting and business case preparation and analysis.
- Project initiation and planning, including work breakdown structures and forecasting.
- Concepts of risk management, issue tracking, change management, and requirements gathering.
- Information technology support and technical documentation.
- Principles of banking, finance, and securities industry operations.
- Business planning and analysis.
- Project budget interfaces with other accounting systems.
- Application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards.
- Analysis: Identify and understand issues, problems, and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.
- Communication: Clearly convey information and ideas through various media; engage and help the audience understand and retain the message.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Choose appropriate courses of action or solutions; recommend or take action consistent with available facts and probable consequences.
- Technical and Professional Knowledge: Demonstrate a satisfactory level of skill or knowledge in position-related areas; stay current with developments and trends.
- Building Effective Relationships: Develop and use collaborative relationships to achieve work goals.
- Client Focus: Prioritize internal and external clients and their needs; develop and sustain productive client relationships.
qualifications:
- Experience level:
- Minimum 6 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors
skills:
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
Qualified applicants in San Francisco with criminal histories will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
