Technology Project Management, Assistant Vice President - Remote

Technology Project Management, Assistant Vice President - Remote

• Requisition # 10053198-WD
• Job Type Full time
• Date posted 11/22/2022

Your potential. Your opportunity.

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 6th largest financial group in the world. Across the globe, we’re 160,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

This is a remote position. A member of our recruitment team will discuss location preferences with you in more detail.

Job Summary:

In this role you will focus on implementing processes to ensure the achievement of technology project objectives, exclusively within the software development life cycle (SDLC). Responsibilities include creating project and resource plans that align with budget allocation and project/program milestones; assisting in requirements documentation, documenting and driving underlying tasks and assignments to complete project deliverables on schedule; closing a project, including budget reconciliation; and, for technical projects following a waterfall or other methodologies (as needed), coordinating development, testing and implementation activities.

• Provide hands-on technology project management and documentation to support technology projects

• Drive planning at the various organizational levels to ensure projects are on track/resourced

• Establish project governance and communication with stakeholders

• Ensure timetable and deliverable schedules are understood and communicated

• Manage dependencies proactively, coordinate across teams to resolve issues and mitigate risks

• Contribute to executive level updates on strategy, budget, project delivery, controls, risks, etc.

• Organize required reporting for business and technology management review sessions

• Track financials related to technology expenditures including software, hardware, and resource allocation

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Business, Technology or Accounting

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or other equivalent PM certifications preferred

• 5-8 years' experience managing and delivering end to end technology projects

• Experience within a technology organization in the financial services industry is preferred

• Experience in working and delivering Financial Crimes (Sanctions/AML/KYC) systems and processes is preferred

• Experience tracking projects and tasks through Jira/Confluence or other tracking tools.

• Experience in drafting, socializing and communicating project status, risks and issues.

• Experience in usage MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word and MS Project.

• Must be hands-on with project documentation for planning, test approach, and log, and proactive in closing open risk / issue / dependency items

• Understanding of MSP and alert management systems

• Thorough understanding of project management fundamentals and the SDLC

• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to articulate complex issues concisely

• Excellent organizational skills

• Good consensus builder: ability to report to middle management as required

• Ability to work across organizations and through obstacles

• Detail-oriented and experienced in working with a small-medium to large size project (10-50 stakeholders)

• Pro-active, collaborative and driven individual who can drive the project team forward to achieve common goals

• Problem solver and solution oriented individual, who is not afraid to think outside the box and provide ideas / innovative solutions

The typical base pay range for this role is between $90K – $115K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.       

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. 

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