Project vice president job description
Project vice president job description
Job purpose of Project vice president is to hands-on and involve leading and driving local and global initiatives through to a successful conclusion, utilizing a mixture of program and project management, business analysis and relationship building skills.
Key duties/responsibilities of Project vice president:
1. Plan, lead, and deliver on key projects that enable Financial to achieve operational excellence and support the growth objectives of our Service, Trading and Operations division.
2. Effectively communicate project expectations, project goals and scope to the team.
3. Responsible for project and quality of delivery from original concept through final implementation.
4. Communicate project direction, approach, priorities, events and status to all project resources and business sponsors.
5. Develop detailed project plans including milestones, timelines, corrective actions to problems or issues, anticipation of problems, and facilitation of scope management.
6. Track project progress and conduct status meetings.
7. Mitigate project risks and manage issues; manage project scope and change.
effectively.
8. Responsible for defining project scope and objectives, develop work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans and status reports.
9. Support business and technology project managers and stakeholders to manage project scope and help ensure projects remain on time and on budget.
10. Interact with stakeholders to define objectives and priorities within the scope of the project/program/initiative.
11. Build strong working relationships across organizations and geographies.
12. Ownership and involvement in multiple streams of work simultaneously.
13. Act as a liaison to various stakeholders (Operations, Technology, Executives, etc.) to identify and assess business processes, workflow, business requirements, technological enablers, financials, communication, etc.
14. Work with Operations, Technology, and Business Unit stakeholders to understand their priorities and make sure that they are represented correctly.
15. Ensure all projects have thorough business cases with measurable benefits and costs.
16. Interface with stakeholders and senior management to confirm project sponsorship and support, agree strategy, and report progress, achievements, significant issues and risks.
17. Work directly with the executive team to ensure their needs and expectations-regarding communication, budget, approach, results, and timing are met.
18. Identify and prioritize scope specific initiatives.
19. Take a leadership role in developing and maintaining productive relationships with key clients, stakeholders and technology partners to facilitate cross organizational communications, coordination and transparency.
20. Lead cross-functional teams, working with all relevant stakeholders to refine strategy, gather and document requirements and identify potential impact in terms of results (cost, quality, timeliness) and process/operations, technology, organization (including people), finances.
21. Demonstrate strong program and project governance and delivery skills – initiation, planning, execution, status reporting, financials, stakeholder management, resource management, risks, issues, dependencies and prioritization.
22. Recommend cost-effective solutions to address business challenges and/or opportunities.
23. Ensure that effective project management governance, procedures, tools and financial controls are established and maintained for the program’s operations.
24. Ensure all participants are clear on project goals, benefits, methods, roles and responsibilities are well understood.
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