COO & Functions
Location
Whippany, NJ | United States
Job description
Project Manager
Whippany, NJ
As a Barclays Project Manager, you will be leading complex and highly visible programs or projects that cut across the business, operations, and technology by developing a plan, analyzing potential risks and benefits, working with your business partners to land on the best solutions, and driving your team to deliver through completion. It’s an exciting chance to be driving financial accountability and transparency through budget management, monitoring, and reporting of forecast vs. actuals.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
• Driving a universal project plan with distributed ownership across the team for an end to end delivery
• Tracking upcoming deliverables and ensuring completion of project milestones and tasks
• Recognizing potential risks or issues quickly, escalating effectively, and building remediation plans
• Creating project plans using MS project in collaboration with all key stakeholders including workstream level delivery
• Promoting effective working relationships with stakeholders
• Driving financial accountability and transparency through budget management, monitoring, and reporting of forecast vs. actuals
• Providing current status and updates on projects to program manager, partners and internal project teams
• Applying lessons learned from completed projects
What we’re looking for:
• Five years of project management experience, managing projects
• Self-motivated, quick, and assertive
• Excellent communication with tech and business teams
• Detail-oriented and organized
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Familiarity with card and payments, or other financial industry
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools(JIRA, Confluence)
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Good interpersonal skills
Where will you be working?
Our next-generation workplace in Whippany allows talented, passionate, down-to-earth colleagues to connect daily. With state-of-the-art work facilities and many added features like pool tables, cafés and a gym – it’s a place you can call home. Our office is minutes away from Morristown, known for its rich history and lively modern spirit. With bustling Manhattan easily accessible and a picturesque landscape here on the doorstep, Whippany really does offer the best of both worlds.
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