Project Manager

Pyramid Consulting, Inc; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. is seeking an experienced Project Manager for an 18+ months contract located in Atlanta, GA with hybrid work options. The role requires coordinating with cross-functional teams, managing budgets, risks, and regulatory reporting.

Candidates should hold PMP certification and have experience with Agile/hybrid delivery, Microsoft Project, Rally, Clarity, and data-driven project governance; travel to Sioux City, Iowa occasionally.

Qualifications

• Must have skills: Project management, delivery, regulatory reporting.
• PMP certification is required or preferred.
• Experience with Agile/hybrid delivery models and coordinating across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate with business managers and subject matter experts to drive project activities.
• Ensure project plan aligns with benefits realization and governance.
• Manage risk, budgets, and variances; prepare dashboards for executives.
• Lead teams and coordinating internal and external resources on a project basis.
• Support testing, environment readiness, and change-readiness activities.

Skills

Project management

Delivery

Regulatory reporting

PMP certification

Stakeholder management

Hybrid delivery

Tools

Microsoft Project

Rally

Clarity

AxiomSL Reg Reporting

Job description

Immediate need for a talented Project Manager. This is a 18+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA(Hybrid).

Job ID: 26-25373

Pay Range: $95 - $97/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Note : Remote with traveling to Sioux City, Iowa, a few times each month
• Plans and coordinates closely with business/function area managers and cross functional subject matter experts and key project team members to drive project activities and issue resolution.
• Ensures that project activities are on a path to deliver benefits realization.
• Installs an appropriate risk management plan for the project and ensures adherence to company and unit requirements.
• Follow client PMLC methodology, risk management routines, and project governance activities (working closely with Risk Program Portfolio Lead and Lead Business partners).
• Proactively works to engage key stakeholders to understand and mitigate any cross team concerns/differences and leads group discussions to develop a resolution path to keep project activities on-schedule with appropriate risk mitigation.
• Leads teams or multiple teams of internal and/or external resources on a project basis.
• Manages project budget forecast and actuals in accordance with finance and reporting routines and methodologies.
• Creates, maintains, analyzes and collectively manages variances to the project schedules and makes recommendation and/or creates action plan to mitigate negative variances or to resolve issues.
• Prepares dashboard reporting to identify and communicate the health of the project for use by key executives (in alignment with existing project governance routines).
• Prepares documentation/presentations to support overall workstream efforts and internal reporting routines, as needed
• Proactively engages key stakeholders to plan, manage, and risk mitigate key items and critical path activities.
• Technical Coordination / Support. Provide hands‑on support to delivery teams (tracking deliverables, coordinating SMEs, ensuring follow-through). Support issue resolution, defect tracking, and backlog management. Assist with environment coordination, releases, and readiness activities
• Assist in the identification of change introduced by the project and coordinated with appropriate teams for planning and executing on "readiness" plans: Client Communications, Teammate Communications, and Teammate Training.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Must have skills: Project management, delivery, regulatory reporting
• Experienced in driving complex projects with large internal and vendor resource teams, through all phases of a tech development lifecycle.
• Proven ability to effectively manage complex projects and initiatives, including multiple business partners across different areas as well as large / complex data sets; demonstrated organization skills.
• Proven stakeholder relationship building skills to engage and drive cross team collaboration at the project member and senior management stakeholder levels. Ability to communicate project status with equal effectiveness at all leadership and team member levels from both a project execution and business progression terms.
• Ability to create and drive multiple project/workstream schedules in parallel.
• Experience with technical Agile / hybrid delivery models, Client, Rally, Clarity, or similar tools.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or similar project management platforms.
• Ability to translate conversations with process owners and stakeholders into effective plans, project objectives, and schedules to achieve expected project outcomes.
• Backgound in Accounting and Finance in a project management role.
• Experience in Regulatory Reporting and/or Risk Weighted Assets.
• Financial institution transformative program and/or project management experience.
• Experience with AxiomSL Reg Reporting solutions
• Prior experience with system and user acceptance test planning activities.
• Experience with data strategy development and execution.
• PMP certification.

Our client is a leading Banking Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.