Project Manager - Financial Services

We are seeking a detail-oriented Project Manager/Coordinator (Individual Contributor) to support portfolio-level delivery through effective budget coordination, resource alignment, and stakeholder communication. This role bridges business and technology teams, ensuring initiatives are well-tracked, aligned, and executed efficiently.

The ideal candidate combines strong organizational skills, working knowledge of technology delivery, and hands-on experience with Agile tools and frameworks (JIRA, Confluence, Atlassian suite), with the ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable plans.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio & Program Coordination

• Support portfolio-level planning and tracking, ensuring alignment across multiple initiatives

• Facilitate key Agile events including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Division level All Hands and workshops

• Coordinate resource allocation across projects, balancing priorities and capacity

• Partner with finance team to support budget tracking, forecasting, and variance management

• Ensure traceability between portfolio initiatives and execution artifacts (EPICs, Features, User Stories)

• Identify dependencies and risks across initiatives and escalate as needed

• Drive visibility into program health, milestones, and delivery outcomes

• Track and follow up on action items, risks, and dependencies, ensuring timely resolution

• Monitor progress across teams using metrics (velocity, burn-down, predictability measures)

• Track milestones, deliverables, and action items across projects

• Proactively follow up on outstanding tasks, risks, and issues to ensure timely closure

• Maintain clear visibility into project health, status, and blockers

• Facilitate coordination across cross-functional teams (business, product, technology)

• Use FNM's program management tools to manage project work plans, issues, risks, and dependencies.

• Prepare and produce status reports, conducts status meetings and facilitates issue resolution and risk management sessions.

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Stakeholder Communication & Reporting

• Develop executive-level presentations and status reports

• Support meeting facilitation, including agenda creation, notes, and action tracking

• Communicate complex updates in a clear, concise, and actionable manner

• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, ensuring decisions, actions, and outcomes are documented and tracked

Tools, Governance & Documentation

• Leverage JIRA, Confluence, and Atlassian tools for tracking, reporting, and documentation

• Maintain up-to-date project documentation, dashboards, and knowledge repositories

• Generate reports and insights from JIRA (e.g., velocity, progress, dependencies)

• Ensure adherence to enterprise delivery standards, governance practices, and compliance requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Technology, or related field

• 7+ years of experience in project/program management or PMO roles

• Exposure to budget tracking and financial coordination

• Good understanding of technology architecture and delivery processes

• Strong experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Atlassian ecosystem

• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and SDLC concepts

• Familiarity with EPICs, Features, User Stories, and their relationships

• Experience managing cross-team dependencies, risks, and large-scale delivery initiatives

• PMI/Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desired

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strong organizational and follow-through skills

• Excellent communication and presentation abilities

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Analytical mindset with attention to detail

• Collaborative and proactive problem solver

• Excellent planning skills using industry planning applications

• Attention to detail

• Proficiency with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Strong communication, negotiation and relationship building skills

• Strong issue resolution and risk management skills

• Experience with project management methodologies

Success Factors

• Keeps projects on track through disciplined follow-ups

• Enables clear visibility for leadership decision-making

• Bridges business and technology effectively without needing deep engineering expertise

• Ensures alignment across teams, budgets, and priorities