Application Project Manager (Technical / Client Facing)
- Full-time
Company Description
insightsoftware is a leading provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions. Over 30,000 organizations worldwide rely on us to support business needs in the areas of accounting, finance, operations, supply chain, tax, budgeting, planning, HR, and disclosure management. We enable the Office of the CFO to connect to and make sense of their data in real time so they can proactively drive greater financial intelligence across their organization. Our best-in-class solutions provide customers with increased productivity, visibility, accuracy, and compliance. Learn more at insightsoftware.com.
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled, influential, and experienced Technical Project Manager who excels in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The Technical Project Manager will work closely with customer stakeholders, senior executives, management, and internal cross-functional teams to coordinate project management activities to ensure the integrity and success of projects by achieving steady measurable progress toward defined goals; efficiently executing project management practices; regular reporting; and monitoring and measurement of success metrics.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the project plan to outline specific project tasks, milestone dates, and deliverables
- Define and manage project scope, budget, schedules, and timelines
- Prepare, distribute, and present progress reports
- Organize and lead project status and working meetings
- Manage changes, risks, actions, issues, and decisions and correct deviations from plan
- Hold teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work
- Leverage organizational resources to improve capacity for project work
- Support Product Owners in managing customer expectations for project deliverables
- Manage stakeholder communications and help to implement an effective system of project governance
- Champion ongoing process improvement initiatives
- Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team
- Identify resource needs for the project and source these resources
- Deliver the project accurately and in accordance with contract terms
- Maintain project documentation including documented project approvals, meeting minutes, etc.
- Plan for and monitor project expenditures to ensure they are in line with the budget
- Provide regular updates on financial status and progress including preparation of financial reports which detail spending, forecasting, and overall budget health
- Know and use all key customer resolution tools across all service groups to facilitate rapid resolution of customer concerns
- Maintain strict confidentiality
- Be mobile and travel to client locations as needed
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field or equivalent business experience
- Experience managing enterprise projects
- High level of agility and ability manage change
- Ability to work proactively and constructively in a fast-paced, collaborative, matrixed team environment
- Communication skills; high level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations
- Presentation skills; high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
Preferred qualifications
- PMP or similar certification
- Experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing
- Knowledge of other Agile approaches, like Kanban, and familiarity with traditional project management approaches
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the stated work location. **
** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **
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