Program Planner
Overview
This position requires the candidate to be based out of our Tampa, FL office 4 days a week.
Program Planner Job Description
About Shift4 Payments :
Overview
The Program Planner will be responsible for assisting the PMO with project-related responsibilities including Program Planning, Scheduling, Reporting, Creation of Program Trackers, Artifacts, Day 1 Go Live activities, Meeting Minutes, Change Controls, Closure, and other documentation, as well as assisting with Portfolio-level analysis.
Responsibilities
- Work under supervision of Program Directors / Manager, Program Planning to help deliver projects on-time, within scope / budget, and with the appropriate level of documentation
- Assist with developing and maintaining program schedules in Smartsheet / Monday and other PMO platforms to monitor and track progress and stay abreast of changes to the plan
- Document changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs under supervision of Program Directors
- Analyzes the schedule for impacts to the Program Events and intermediate milestones
- Understands cross functional interdependencies within a timeline
- Generate critical path analyses and support for program decision points and escalation
- Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
- Report and escalate Risks / Issues to Program Director as needed
- Help manage the relationship with the internal and external clients and all stakeholders
- Use strong and independent business judgment in making decisions about risks, issues, and escalations
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
- Assist with Project financial reporting / analysis
- Develop spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs
Qualifications
- 2-3 years of project planning, consulting, and / or business-intelligence experience
- Must demonstrate initiative and professional written and verbal communication / approach to drive team performance
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail
- Must be able to multitask effectively and autonomously problem solve.
- Must be able to work independently and as part of a cross functional team.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical resources and those with a non-technical, business background.
- Must have experience in developing master program level schedules
- Experience in Financial Technology (FinTech) and / or Payments is a plus.
- Must have great technical acumen with the ability to use and learn new technologies
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.