Senior Project Manager, Fintech Payroll & Retirement(Remote)

SCALIS; Bradenton (FL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

CoAd is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead multiple fintech projects within payroll and retirement services. This role drives software development, product launches, and operational initiatives in the PMO, delivering on time, on budget, and with quality.

You will tailor methodologies ( Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall ), manage scope, risk, and reporting, and cultivate cross-functional partnerships across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years proven experience leading complex cross functional enterprise projects.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to align project objectives with organizational goals.
• 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.
• Manage project scope. Facilitate charter scope elicitation from business stakeholders, lead project kickoff and partner with business analysts and department project leads to maintain cohesive alignment of scope to business and project goals throughout the life of the project.
• 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. Monitor and report on obstacles, engaging the project team, stakeholders and sponsor to drive positive project outcomes.
• 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

Project leadership

Business acumen

Communication

AI tools

AI 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

Job description

CoAd is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead multiple fintech projects within payroll and retirement services. This role drives software development, product launches, and operational initiatives in the PMO, delivering on time, on budget, and with quality.

You will tailor methodologies ( Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall ), manage scope, risk, and reporting, and cultivate cross-functional partnerships across the organization.