PMO Consultant, USA, NJ

Responsibilities

Day to day responsibilities include the management of 3-5 projects (mix of large, medium and small initiatives) simultaneously as well as ad-hoc responsibilities within the Futures Operations Technology Project Office & Business Office to support initiatives for the Futures line of business.  The position requires an independent go getter individual with strong Project Management Skills as well as Business Analysis experience.  The individual must be able to play a hybrid PM/BA role on some projects, and must have the ability to guide junior team members as needed.  The position is skewed toward strong Project Management skills and the ability to deliver projects more than Business Analyst skills.

The candidate must have the following Base Skill Set:

• BA/BS degree; Masters preferred.
• Excellent organization skills, demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to work on multiple concurrent work streams and deliver quality deliverables in an efficient, timely manner. 
• Must have strong analytical skills and strong oral and written communication skills.
• Good background working with quantitative data
• Knowledge of standard desktop systems such as Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio
• Advanced knowledge of MS Access, Excel, Visio; strong SQL database skills preferred
• Possesses understanding of client/server technologies in a distributed environment.

 Key Requirements:

 Primary:  Project Management skill set required

• 5+ Years of experience managing IT project in within Financial Services.
• 5+ Years of experience with System Integration Projects
• Must have extensive experience with MS Project (task tracking, resource leveling, budget tracking)
• Use of structured Project Management Methodology (PMBOK)
• Works closely with key stakeholders and technical colleagues to define project requirements.
• Participates in project planning activities including defining detailed project tasks
• Conduct project administrative tasks, such as work plan administration, time and expense tracking, and project schedule maintenance.
• Be able to provide visibility to Managers and Senior Management on progress against outstanding milestones, status, issues, risks and dependencies.
• Must have knowledge of requirements gathering, system design, system configuration, deliverables documentation, system test planning and execution, user training and procedures, and overall project lifecycle as well as SDLC.
• Strong understanding of PMO role and responsibility and ability to feed metrics to PMO as required.

 Secondary: Business Analysis skill set required

• Interface with business owners to understand current processes, business issues and data challenges of client's organization.
• Experience interacting with business users and collecting requirements
• Ability to effectively run facilitation sessions, conduct interviews, develop process and data flow diagrams in Visio
• Performs gap analysis of current state against user requirements.
• Familiar with, and previous experience delivering UML documents
• Ability to prepare use case diagrams
• Documents and maintains business process models

• Creates test plans, test scenarios, and expected results.  
• Pay attention to details
• Advanced level knowledge of using Excel for data analysis (Pivot tables)