W2 ONLY, NO C2C - SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE Location: New York City, NY - 10112 (Midtown) Type: 9 months contract on W2
Summary: Our client - A Global Media & Entertainment giant - is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support a large capital project building a new financial application. We have a very large project starting, essentially 2 big systems that we're trying to consolidate into one new and separate system. We have an application for program finance (when you require rights to movies titles, we pay licensing fees and then we expense them throughout the period of time). Our cable brands used another application called compass, module within compass. What used to be very siloed, now there's one Finance group managing all TV finance all together. This project is to take these two programs that exist, extract and build a new UI to support this program finance team in the future state.
NOTES FROM HIRING MANAGER:
Local candidates to NY please.
We work specifically in applications that internal Finance teams use.
This will not be a very product focused role.
The focus of the role will really be on that there are a lot of different partners and stakeholders to be managed and kept up to date.
So many different groups and dependencies so we really want someone who's really focused in keeping everyone on track.
Any Finance exposure and/or Media exposure will help.
Looking for someone who knows the software development Lifecycle.
Ideally someone who has done migrating data before.
Help produce status reports because there's a lot of stakeholders.
Maintain a detailed project plan.
3+ years of experience.
PM experience or certifications would be nice.
Qualifications:
BA/BS in a related field
Prior experience working on a project to build a new software application (ideally for internal business users)
Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and UAT/release planning
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to manage competing interests and achieve consensus across teams
Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
Enthusiasm for solving problems
Responsibilities:
Assist in setting up project plans, and tracking milestones to completion
Schedule meetings, document attendees & key points, track takeaways and ensure we follow-up on all open items
Help identify and escalate risks to the project, work with key stakeholders to come up mitigation plans
Identify key project metrics and highlights, and prepare regular status updates for all stakeholders
Assist managing feedback from users during testing, by implementing effective change management controls to triage and prioritize requests
