Senior Project Manager

Raymond James Financial, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James Financial, Inc. is seeking a Project Manager to lead hybrid, office-based work with three days on site and at least one of Monday or Friday in office, supporting project delivery across programs.

This role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, requirements management, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement. The position requires strong leadership, governance, and the ability to coordinate diverse teams while ensuring timely, within-budget results.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver project and workstream plans that meet objectives.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and specify project deliverables.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints; escalate as needed.
• Gather requirements; document, verify, and manage them through the life cycle.
• Direct a medium- to large-sized project team and mentor members.
• Oversee assurance reviews to ensure on-time, on-budget, quality outcomes.
• Review operations and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Negotiate and manage deployment of project budgets and variances.
• Develop plans to measure business benefits and maximize value.
• Ensure smooth project closeout and capture lessons learned.
• Provide accurate information to stakeholders and recommend changes.
• Act as SME in technology/policy/regulation and stay current with best practices.
• Build team structure, define roles, and foster capabilities.
• Lead meetings and drive alignment across teams.

Job description

This role is a hybrid workstyle: with the associate expected to work from a Raymond James office location at least three days per week, including either Monday or Friday.

Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the production of project and workstream plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized and resourced to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project and program management framework.

• Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.

• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.

• Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.

• Manage the identification and elicitation of project and/or department-level process requirements; conduct analysis of those requirements for accuracy and alignment to the department; document and manage requirements throughout the life of the project; and coordinate the verification of the end deliverable.

• Lead a medium- to large-sized project team; define the project vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions on project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and work to build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.

• Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.

• Review existing operations in a major area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered.

• Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.

• Develop and manage the delivery of a plan to evaluate and track business benefits and to identify actions needed to maximize them.

• Manage project closeout to ensure effective transition from the project environment to business as usual and to ensure lessons learned are identified and captured for future reference.

• Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at established review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change.

• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Skills:

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.

• Works at an advanced level to prioritize components of a project, program, or portfolio work in context with risks, activities, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, archiving, and disposition of project information. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to negotiate independently while providing guidance and training to others on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on identifying, managing and controlling project-related changes.

• Works at an advanced level to manage the work that determines the quality policies, procedures, and responsibilities so the work satisfies the needs for which it was undertaken. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to identify, acquire, and manage the resources (physical and human) for the project. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently with guiding and training others on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing project-related risks.

• Works at an advanced level to manage the documentation, archiving, traceability, changes, and approvals of requirements throughout the project life cycle. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to create the rules for requirements and design quality, perform verification activities, and maintain quality control. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to identify appropriate measures for assessing solution performance and limitations, validate with key stakeholders, and collect appropriate performance measures to assess overall solution performance to recommend specific actions to increase solution value. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.

• Works at an advanced level to estimate and manage the effort and finances to complete the work within budget. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to estimate each of the components of project, program, or portfolio work, including costs, activity durations, resource needs, risks, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to identify, define, unify, and coordinate the various processes and activities to integrate the project management activities. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to lead program related meetings, keeping focus on agenda, issues, workflow, and associated agile ceremony requirements. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to build the structure and culture of the project team, and define roles and responsibilities within that structure to enable the achievement of project mission and objectives and the effective operation of key business processes. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on sequencing and scheduling tasks into a project plan.

• Works at an advanced level to identify, verify, and manage changes to the scope of the project or program, utilizing the most appropriate approach. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to design, create and administer the test scripts associated with the delivery of the project, ensuring that the requirements are being met from a functional, design and user experience perspective. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while guiding and training others on measuring and reporting progress toward intermediate targets to make sure a project stays on track to achieve its ultimate goals.

• Works at an advanced level to lead facilitated sessions for requirements elicitation, focus groups, and user acceptance testing. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Works at an advanced level to identify potential stakeholders, analyze their expectations, and develop strategies for managing stakeholders and their expectations. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on managing vendors so that they deliver the best possible results given available resources.

• Works at an advanced level to identify assumptions in order to manage risk, assess the success with measurable evaluation criteria, and evaluate alignment of requirements with solution scope to support value delivery. Typically works independently and provides guidance.

• Applies comprehensive knowledge to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies.

• Works at an advanced level to orient work in a workflow to plan, organize, and execute the steps it takes to achieve a goal to achieve higher efficiencies. Typically works independently and provides guidance.