Business Manager Jobs

Required Skills

Financial Management

* Execute frequent reports to ensure departments (internal and external) are forecasted appropriately to work efforts and within budget to projects; partner with departments to resolve deviations from allocations.

* Perform forecasting of IT resources, projects and services; including hardware and software.

* Produce quantitative monthly financial review/analysis reports for programs with supporting qualitative commentary on financial variance to targets.

* Administer project related IT financial management across the project portfolio including monitoring actuals vs budget and determining project related corrective action where necessary.

* Facilitate creation of wallets and technology funding requests for external vendor engagements.

Resource Management

* Support hiring managers in the creation/review of critical hire justifications, job descriptions, forecasting to facilitate recruitment, onboarding of employee and consultant positions, manager changes, and resource off boarding.

* Compilation, administration, and delivery of team based and organization-based rosters, trends, and resource ratios.

* Coordinate communications with staffing vendors and Human Resources through the onboarding process.

Program Management

* Timely completion of ad-hoc requests from senior leadership.

* Prior experience working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

* Very strong analytical skills with ability to gather/synthesize information and summarize issues.

* Ability to independently identify issues and anomalies, analyze possible resolutions, and recommend corrective course of action.

* Interface with Project Managers on project costing, budgeting, resource management, and work effort tracking.

* Assist in weekly and monthly portfolio reporting to generate Bank and Business unit reports.

* Review project status content and RAG statuses.

* Create suggestions for improvements to processes.

General Skills

* Excellent working knowledge of Excel is essential.

* Minimum of 5+ years of Business Management and PMO experience.

* Work effectively in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.

* Capable of effectively meeting time-sensitive deliverables with accuracy and a high level of attention to detail.

* Outstanding written/verbal/ interpersonal/communication skills.

* Excellent people management skills; including the ability to influence, negotiate and achieve results through others who are not direct reports.

Desired Skills

* PMP Certification or equivalent Agile certification.

* Previous experience with financial and resource management tools (i.e.; Serena IG, TM1, PeopleTracker, etc.).

* Understanding of technology principles and services including infrastructure, business applications, data management, security, application platforms, and consumer facing technology.

* Previous experience in the financial services field, with emphasis on banking/lending technology.

Education

* Bachelor's Degree required

* Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred