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Job Description

Celerity is a Mid-Atlantic based consulting firm with a fast growing list of Financial Services and Fortune 500 clients. We started our business in 2002 and now have over 350 consultants. Our headquarters office is located in McLean VA and we have offices in New York, Boston and Pennsylvania. 

We provide our internal employees and consultants the best of both worlds- the camaraderie of a growing organization and the stability of a client base of well established, national organizations. 

We offer hourly and full time salaried positions with a strong benefits package which includes training and career development. Compensation packages are base salary plus bonus based on productivity.

Our client, the Private Investment Management area of a Global Investment Bank located in midtown NYC, needs a Project Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

This role is for a VP level PM resource to support the Financial Systems Initiative. The program is a large scale, multi-phase and multi-year undertaking driven by the CFO to define and implement a new strategy for Finance Systems across all areas of the firm.

·         Perform as a team member on a fully operational Program Management Office with best practice business processes for but not limited to:

• Status reporting

• PMO infrastructure

• Governance

• Quality management

•  Impact management

• Program communication

Job Requirements

• Demonstrate strong presentation skills including creating well executed executive management materials
• Create status reports & key program metrics, must be highly skilled in MS Excel
• Knowledge of SDLC lifecycle and processes
• Experience in issue, risk and change management
• Experience in managing others

Experience and Skills Required:

• Minimum four to six years Project Management Experience on large global financial programs. Person should have played past roles as described in the Job Description

• Ability to be extremely detail oriented, have an eye for finding anomalies and work
  in the lowest level of data of a task

• Must have strong facilitation skills

• Ability to multi-task in a fast pace environment

• Power user in the following Microsoft applications: PowerPoint, Excel & Word. Project a nice to have

• Ability to manage minutes from key meetings including summarizing decisions reached and tracking of action items and their owners