• Conducts preliminary investigation for complex project requests. Reviews requirements, specifications and testing. Ensures training plans are aligned with organizational priorities, business plans and objectives.

• Provides a proactive interface for project stakeholders and senior management teams to ensure business requirements are completely and accurately defined. Ensures business applications are delivered.

• Refines and implements project management methodologies, tools and practices to provide continuous process improvement.

• Selects and manages project teams. Manages such teams throughout the project lifecycle including planning, assigning, scheduling, monitoring and reviewing project activities, as well as evaluating individual performance upon project completion.

• Conducts interviews, compiles and analyzes responses, and creates business cases for projects.

• Participates in root cause analysis in order to recommend appropriate actions to improve productivity and efficiency.

• Identifies, defines and documents complex business and technical requirements, processes and deliverables.

• Develops, prepares, presents and maintains project plans including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets and work breakdown structures and schedules.

• Performs project risk assessments by identifying key risk factors, providing effective mitigation strategies and assigning contingency action plans to both schedules and budgets.

• Applies established project methodologies to manage projects: uses change control templates and processes, manages time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools, monitors budgets, and coordinates resource acquisition and utilization.

• Serves as the liaison between internal customers and external suppliers. Communicates regularly with project stakeholders.

• Delivers systems on appropriate platforms in compliance with established technology standards. Monitors testing and executes quality assurance checks to ensure the system meets information technology acceptance criteria prior to implementation.

• Performs project evaluations and participates in post-project quality monitoring.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Experience managing robust application development projects along with inter-connected projects with complex dependencies.

• Experience working on projects that have detailed complex business requirements.

• Experience in communicating across all levels of the organization; specifically with executive management.

• HR or Finance project management background is a plus.

• High level of proficiency with tools like MS Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

• Ability to create and track detailed, multiyear, multi-function project plans.

• Proficiency in managing teams with a diverse array of skills, talents and responsibilities.

• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and presentation skills.

• PMP or Scrum Master certification is a plus.

Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS or applicable degree or minimum eight (8) years of experience including: project management, enterprise implementation, leadership experience, strategic planning, business acumen, change management or combination of education, training and experience.