Position: Senior Project Manager - Financial/Treasury

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 6 months

Description:

Senior Project Manager with Capital Markets or Treasury/Derivatives experience for Financial Client located in Washington, DC

Project Overview:
The Summit Renewal Project has different phases and currently the project team is working on upgrading the operating system from Solaris 8 to 10. The Senior project manager is needed to work on the Solaris 10 migration and other subprojects related to the Summit renewal program.

Candidate should have minimum 8 years experience in IT development environment with 5 years as project management experience PMP certification is highly desirable
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Experience in managing test execution
Experience in recording, tracking, reporting and resolving issues
Ability to develop close relationship with peers, vendors and user community
Experience with financial COTS implementation is a plus
Experience with internal controls and IT controls and compliance is a plus
The senior project manager will report to application delivery program officer / client relationship officer and will have overall responsibility for the oversight and management of the Solaris 10 migration and other projects related to Summit renewal program

The candidate will be responsible for but not limited to :
Co-ordinate with the user group, application support team and the system administration team for completing the upgrade project
Work closely with the project team members (developers, business analysts, vendor consultants and user leads) and put together all the detailed requirements
Come with a test strategy and migration plan for the upgrade
Get the sign-off from the user groups on the test results
Document the project plan with clear responsibilities between the project stake holders
Monitor the progress of the tasks and promptly escalate any potential issues.
Work with the other functional units in the IT department and make sure all the requirements are captured and documented as per the specifications.
Conduct regular status meetings with all the stake-holders and report on the status, issues and risks of the project tasks.
Analyze and document dependencies if any
Closely monitor the deliverables by the vendor and promptly escalate the issues to Client relationship officer.