Service Delivery Center - Enterprise Program Management - Senior

Overview

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Service Delivery Center – Program Management – Senior Analyst

EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit (Financial Services Organization, or FSO) that is dedicated to the financial services marketplace. Our FSO teams have been at the forefront of every event that has reshaped and redefined the financial services industry. This practice also has several Service Delivery Centers that are made up of high-performing US-based resources working closely with our experienced client-serving professionals to deliver project-based work and managed services to our US-based FSO clients.

If you have a passion for rallying together to resolve the most complex challenges in the financial services industry, come join our dynamic FSO team!

As a Program Manager at EY, you will be responsible for ensuring that both business-sponsored and internal programs/projects are planned, managed, and governed in a consistent and disciplined manner, with a focus on high-quality execution. You will help businesses realize the value from their IT investments by supporting strategy, improving the customer experience, and driving growth. As part of a high-performing team, you’ll provide advice about technology enablement and the strong effect IT has on major program transformations.

This is a new group being developed in our Service Delivery Center, and you will have the opportunity to be a part of building a new team within this growing organization.

• Collaborate with technical, delivery, and management teams on the coordination of aggregated/integrated roadmap views, tracking, planning, and resolution of risks and issues, as well as identifying and managing cross-functional dependencies.
• Create and develop project charters, scope, and schedules, then plan and assign resources to a project.
• Facilitate the centralization and automation of reporting processes where possible and relevant; actively collaborate with partners across Product and IT to meet business goals.
• Establish procedures and monitoring controls with a mindset of continuous improvement while demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Advise and consult with other departments about production software issues, concerns, problems, and questions.
• Manage resources, communications, and cost management of projects.
• Create project organization structures, including identification of key project team members and their roles, and develop and communicate the project plan to align project members and stakeholders.
• Conduct kickoff meetings with all key stakeholders to announce the start of a project, review the overall project plan, and gain consensus.
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
• Demonstrate business skills with the ability to effectively negotiate priorities across multiple groups and teams.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs to keep the project plan accurate and updated, reflecting authorized project changes as defined in the change management plan to facilitate customer acceptance.
• Identify high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints, then implement approved actions and workarounds to minimize the impact of risks on the project.
• Communicate any development or resourcing roadblocks to leadership and facilitate resolution.
• Create and implement remedies to obstacles and challenges throughout the course of the project.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders beyond IT services, including finance, communications, and legal, to cover all potential downstream implications of a project.
• Improve team performance by building team cohesiveness and leading, mentoring, training, and motivating to facilitate cooperation among the teams.
• Work with system end users to understand business functions and document requirements.
• Analyze current business processes to identify potential gaps between current and target states.
• Document system requirements via process/workflow diagrams, including potential error conditions based upon analysis of system capabilities.
• Maintain system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
• Write and maintain end-user and system practitioner documentation as reference material.
• Effectively use the tools required for managing programs and projects at EY and provide thought leadership for the growth of the toolset and functionality to aid in PM delivery.
• Work in a fast-paced environment and communicate with both technical and management staff.

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