Associate Director, Project Manager

A Project Manager at MUFG IS is an influential change agent/trusted advisor with business and technology who drive and implement organizational priorities that add value. Project managers play a key advisory and change/ project leadership role in the projects’ early initiation phase (i.e., business casing) to the structuring of the project to implementation and handoff to BAU. In order to be effective in their role, Project Managers must be (1) resourceful and be strong relationship managers; Building strong working relationships with the project and organizational stakeholders at every level of the organization must be second nature, (2) Bring a blend of strong execution expertise and business knowledge, (3) adept at mitigating and managing risk and (4) have excellent communication, impact/influence and facilitation abilities.

As a key member of the PMO team, the Project Manager directs and controls a variety of projects (typically 3 at a time) throughout a global organization, ensuring that the projects are conducted on time, within budget using project management best practices to ensure the highest level of quality. Implementing effective governance throughout the project lifecycle and managing the day to day operation aspects of the projects – Plan, budget, RAID, Resource and Status to ensure project objectives are achieved. Project Managers also supports the PMO with portfolio and resource planning and reporting.

You Will:

• Guard the viability of the vision and the business case
• Provide feedback to project stakeholders, including specification feedback, issue escalation to managers or scope changes/clarifications to project resources
• Responsible for scope control with stakeholders, task execution with the project team and relevant upward communication to managers and senior stakeholders
• Developing project plans, budgets and schedules, managing tasks and teams on the project’s critical path
• Gather or track the completion of necessary artifacts required for development of each project, including but not limited to: risk assessments, technical architecture drawings, requirements, change plans, etc.
• Ensure successful, timely and effective delivery of change projects
• Assess and manage risks and issues, take corrective measurements accordingly
• Resolve cross-project issues and strategic issues with senior stakeholders
• Helps define process improvements and feedback for the project, including any strategies required for timely execution
• Work across all departments to deliver projects that align to the organization's strategic vision
• Update relevant project information in real time

You Have:

• Ideally certified or studying towards a relevant professional Project Management certification (PMP, Scrum/Agile certificates)
• Demonstrated technical and business project Management skills
• Must have a Financial Services background, preferably Fund Admin and Banking
• Flexibility to attend to urgent matters outside of normal business hours if/when needed
• Must have 5+ years’ experience managing projects across business and technology
• Experience with Smartsheets, Jira, Confluence project management tools are an asset
• Experience with Agile, Lean, waterfall, hybrid and other project management methodologies are beneficial
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred
• Proven track record of effectively managing and delivering projects on-time, within scope and on budget
• N/A – based on work, industry and Project experience
• Successful track record in working with business and technology teams to define, develop, test and launch new products/services
• Experience in authoring project plans, building a project budget and technical requirements

At MUFG Investor Services, we are exceptionally proud of our approach to Hybrid Working. It enables the flexibility to thrive from wherever our employees work and, stay connected to their team and our culture. When we make Hybrid Working plans, we get to know the individual and pride ourselves in underpinning all our decisions with fairness and consistency.

MUFG Investor Services provides all of its employees with an extremely attractive compensation package. In addition to base salary, there is a group medical insurance scheme, group pension scheme, reimbursement of professional subscriptions, paid holidays and assistance towards gym memberships.

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MUFG is an equal opportunity employer.