Enterprise Project Manager, Entry Level

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Job Summary:

Cathay Bank is committed to fostering a supportive culture that empowers employees to achieve their professional goals. The Enterprise Project Manager is responsible for leading and managing cross-functional teams to deliver strategic enterprise-level projects on time and within budget while ensuring quality results. This role involves working closely with senior leaders and managing external vendors across multiple business units to achieve project objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Manages multiple medium, large, and extra-large projects (including projects but not limited to projects technical in nature or process oriented), with minimal supervision.

• Works with key stakeholders and project teams to manage multiple work streams and specific tasks and responsibilities on each work stream.

• Develops detailed project management plans and identifies project task and deliverables to build a project schedule and roadmap.

• Drives and manages the project according to plan to achieve the desired objectives and delivers the approved scope on time, within budget, and with the expected quality.

• Participates in building business case justifications for projects, including financial analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and definition of appropriate performance metrics to measure project success and benefits, including current state benchmarking and post Go-Live benefit realization measurement.

• Supports and manages RFI/RFP process as appropriate, providing support and adherence to best practices for vendor assessment, scoring methodologies, and presentation of solution options.

• Manages the project to ensure project scope and execution align with the business case and benefit objectives. Manages and controls the project budget, responsible for total project cost projections.

• Proactively identifies, anticipates, and documents potential risks, issues, blockers, or changes to project scope. Assertively and creatively removes obstacles that slow down or prevent projects from delivering against project objectives, including active management of vendor resources and deliverables (as required).

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) from four-year College or university preferred.

• Minimum of 2-4 years’ project management experience in financial services is required.

• Strong knowledge of various Project Life Cycle Methodologies.

• Knowledge of financial /business systems.

• Ability to manage across support divisions and multiple projects at one time.

• Negotiation skills and interpersonal skills.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills.

• Ability to manage escalations/issues while working with division executives.

• Ability to drive and partner with third party application vendors on projects.

Company:

Cathay Bank is a financial services company originally founded to support Los Angeles’ growing Chinese American community. It is a sub-organization of Cathay General Bancorp. Founded in 1962, headquartered in El Monte, California, USA, team size 1001-5000 employees, currently Late Stage.