American Express is looking for a Project Manager to manage project budgets, forecasts, and actuals, partner with finance and portfolio teams to analyze variances and drive cost optimization, develop project plans, drive epic definition, decomposition, and prioritization, monitor and communicate project progress, facilitate technical conversations, and manage risks, issues, and impediments to ensure financial health and alignment with organizational goals.
Requirements
- Agile certification is preferred
- Rally/JIRA/Confluence experience
- Agile/Scrum methodology experience
- Demonstrated ability to manage program financials, including forecasting, budgeting, and funding approvals.
- Monitor financial performance, identify risks/opportunities, and support quarterly investment planning.
- Ability to facilitate technical meetings and discussions of any technical challenges and systems design
- Understanding of project management process, project management software tools, templates, and management techniques
Responsibilities
- Develop, track, and manage project budgets, forecasts, and actuals to ensure financial health and alignment with organizational goals
- Partner with finance and portfolio teams to analyze variances and drive cost optimization strategies
- Develops project plans and ensures that the scope and approach are fully understood by all stakeholders
- Drive epic definition, decomposition, and prioritization across product and engineering teams
- Monitors and communicates progress of project delivery by cost, scope, schedule and including the assessment of risks/issues
- Facilitates technical conversations (e.g., relating to architectural approach and system design)
- Works within and across team(s) to track status of risks, issues and impediments to the project delivery and escalate accordingly
Other
- Master’s/bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business management/Administration, Information Systems Technology or related field
- Excellent time management skills with ability to manage multiple projects
- Prior relevant Technology and business work experience
- Ability to work with Engineers, Product Managers and Vendors to achieve project goals
- Ability to collaborate across teams and bring different opinions to consensus
