Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About defi SOLUTIONS :

It’s an exciting time to join defi!

defi SOLUTIONS is a pioneer in end-to-end, SaaS loan originations, servicing, and managed servicing solutions. Our customers include the highest volume captive auto lenders, banks, credit unions, and finance companies in North America. We have more than three decades of experience helping lending reduce time-to-market, streamline operations and customer lending processes with proven, scalable performance. Learn more at defisolutions.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

About the Role :

defi SOLUTIONS is seeking an experienced project manager for its Project Management Office. Candidates must have a strong, demonstrated history of executing successful project management practices in a large, complex business environment delivering mission critical services. The ideal candidate will have extensive, practical, and relevant experience developing and executing technology projects across multiple product delivery teams operating in a distributed model across disparate geographies. This staff-level position will support day-to-day execution of project management activities, including ensuring predictable, consistent, and successful delivery of detailed project plans, coordinating, and monitoring small, medium, and large scale engagements, managing client expectations and deliverables, and meeting budgetary guidelines. The project manager will provide the practical knowledge, personal experience and effective business acumen needed to execute project management in accordance with enterprise standards, as well as producing the metrics and reporting necessary to ensure defi’s product development and delivery is aligned to its business strategy.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide experienced project management applying the appropriate knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to efficiently manage the different project phases, including initiating, planning, executing, implementing and closing.
• Employ personal experience, subject matter expertise and lessons learned from previous engagements to define key project deliverables and milestones and identify the tasks that must be completed for each to achieve the desired project outcome.
• Develop detailed project plans that define project scope, schedule and budget, working across departments to ensure all requirements are satisfied within the confines of the project and budgetary restrictions.
• Work with key stakeholders to create integrated project plans focused on attaining the outlined goals and manage project progress and budget to ensure key milestones are achieved.
• Compare and report actual performance against planned / scheduled performance
• Manage and review the work of third-party vendors or partners to ensure acceptable deliverables.
• Ensure that issues are proactively identified and resolved effectively to keep the project on track.
• Execute efficient internal and client-facing communications with all levels within the team.
• Continuously monitor and report on progress of project to stakeholders and present routine reports defining project progress, risks, issues and resolutions.
• Create and maintain prescribed project-related artifacts in accordance with enterprise PDLC standards and governance model.
• Provide presentations and written and verbal updates to executive management.
• Assist internal teams in preparing new project requests for the portfolio governance process -through concept, business case and approval phases.
• Execute project management work in approved enterprise tools, processes, templates, standards, and reporting formats.

REQUIREMENTS

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

PERSONAL QUALITIES / SKILLS

POSITION LOCATION

This position can be located in Westlake, TX or Remote.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Business travel may be required; amount dependent upon business need and employee location.

POSITION TYPE

Full-time, salaried

KEYWORDS

advanced data analytics

process development and optimization

metrics and reporting