Project Manager

TekStaff's Client has a current vacancy for "Project Manager"

Job Description

Typical Day in Role:

• Manage 1–2 projects at any given time, working under the direction of a Director, DPMO, with accountability for driving project activities from initiation through execution and closeout.
• Lead project coordination and governance activities, including preparing agendas, facilitating meetings, documenting decisions and minutes, tracking action items, and maintaining project documentation.
• Manage project financials, including budgets, forecasts, accruals, invoice payments, and financial reconciliations, ensuring information is accurate, complete, and appropriately reflected in project reporting.
• Drive core project management activities by coordinating across Business, Technology, Finance, and other stakeholders to manage project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and actions through the full project life cycle, including working groups and steering committees.
• Maintain required project artifacts in enterprise project management tools (e.g., Clarity/PPM), including project plans, risk and issue logs, status reports, steering committee materials, and sponsor updates, ensuring documentation remains current and governance requirements are met.
• Manage investment planning and project financial activities for assigned projects, including submission templates, actuals-to-plan reconciliation, forecast and variance tracking, change requests, funding adjustments, rebaselines, and business case preparation in accordance with investment governance requirements.
• Prepare project- and portfolio-level reporting and executive materials for Directors, VPs, and senior leadership, while supporting audit readiness and governance compliance through evidence collection, sponsor approvals, project closeout activities, document management, and continuous improvement of PMO processes and reporting.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1. 5+ years of Project Management experience, with demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects across the full project lifecycle: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closeout.
2. Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, governance processes, and tools, including experience with CA-PPM/Clarity and PeopleSoft.
3. Demonstrated experience managing project financials, including budgets, forecasts, accruals, invoice tracking, cost-to-complete forecasting, and financial reconciliation.
4. Strong Microsoft Excel skills, with experience using Excel for financial analysis, tracking, reconciliation, and project reporting.
5. Strong project coordination, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to facilitate meetings, prepare agendas and minutes, track actions and decisions, and maintain project documentation.
6. Working knowledge of IT concepts, delivery methodologies, and terminology, with the ability to coordinate effectively between Business and Technology stakeholders and support the translation of business requirements into functional requirements.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• PMP Certified and other Project Management certifications (i.e., Prosci, Scrum, etc.)

TekStaff may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of the applicant screening process. However, applications will also be reviewed by a member of our Recruitment team to ensure a fair and thorough assessment.