Senior Project Manager, Fintech Payroll & Retirement

CoAd; Bradenton (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

CoAd is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join the PMO and lead complex fintech projects across software development, product launch, and operations. You will guide multiple initiatives through agile and waterfall methods, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery with high quality.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of cross-functional leadership experience and a strong business acumen, with a track record of stakeholder alignment and process optimization in a PEO context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology or related field (Master's degree preferred).
• +7 years proven experience leading complex cross functional enterprise projects.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Stays current with emerging AI tools and proactively identifies opportunities to apply them to team or business challenges.
• Able to work alongside AI systems as a thoughtful collaborator, combining AI efficiency with human critical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead, manage and monitor concurrent complex projects from inception to completion.
• Assess a project and select, apply and tailor various project management methodologies including scrum, kanban and waterfall, to deliver the project in alignment with business goals, timelines and budget.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project artifacts including project charter, project milestones and detailed plan, risk and issue planning & tracking, communication plan, release and deployment timelines.
• Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis to identify project risks. Facilitate risk planning to identify triggers, risk strategies and document response plans.
• Responsible for timely tracking and reporting on key project metrics to PMO, stakeholders and Senior leadership.
• Establish and maintain a network of excellent cross functional relationships across the organization, as well as contractors, third party vendors and other project stakeholders.
• Ensure effective communication and collaboration between your project teams and their stakeholders. Model communication and actions that contribute to a collaborative, innovative team culture dedicated to continuous improvement.
• Identifying and recommending project management best practices, methodologies, and standards, fit to various use cases in a Center-of-Excellence model.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of project management tools, templates, and systems that support project and portfolio planning, tracking and reporting.
• Facilitate continuous improvement of corporate processes through execution of project retrospectives at various milestones throughout the project life cycle.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Negotiation

AI tools awareness

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, PM, IT

Master's degree preferred

PMI PMP certification preferred

Scrum Master certification preferred

Product Owner certification preferred

Tools

Scrum

Kanban

Job description

CoAd is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join the PMO and lead complex fintech projects across software development, product launch, and operations. You will guide multiple initiatives through agile and waterfall methods, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery with high quality.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of cross-functional leadership experience and a strong business acumen, with a track record of stakeholder alignment and process optimization in a PEO context.