Asset & Wealth Management - Dallas - Associate, Project Management - 3400158

Goldman Sachs • Dallas, TX

9h • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate, Project Management at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Dallas, Texas, is responsible for facilitating the implementation of large-scale strategic cross-divisional initiatives. This role involves deploying appropriate project management methodologies and governance tools to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and of high quality. The associate will facilitate Agile ceremonies, coordinate between various project stakeholders, manage project risks and issues, and ensure robust project delivery schedules. Additionally, the role involves coordinating user acceptance testing, streamlining processes across business units, and constructing process flow documentation to identify inefficiencies and define solutions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Information Technology and Management, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related field, and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or in a related role OR Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Information Technology and Management, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering or a related field, and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role.
• One (1) year of experience (with a Master’s degree) OR three (3) years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) with managing complex, cross-functional projects in a heavily matrixed organization, including direct oversight of engineering deliverables.
• One (1) year of experience (with a Master’s degree) OR three (3) years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) with driving solution implementation and benefits delivery that fully meets the organizational goals.
• One (1) year of experience (with a Master’s degree) OR three (3) years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) with defining and developing business case and scope, articulating issues, challenges, risks, dependencies, solutions, and providing status reports.
• One (1) year of experience (with a Master’s degree) OR three (3) years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) with leading projects through all elements of the software development life cycle (SDLC), using JIRA software for project management.
• One (1) year of experience (with a Master’s degree) OR three (3) years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) with designing solution or other design and strategic implementations within the Financial Services sector.
• One (1) year of experience (with a Master’s degree) OR three (3) years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) with communicating project status and risk items to a broad range of stakeholders, including Executive/Senior Management level.
• One (1) year of experience (with a Master’s degree) OR three (3) years of experience (with a Bachelor’s degree) with managing multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously with competing priorities and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the implementation of large-scale strategic cross-divisional initiatives and deploy appropriate project management methodologies and governance tools to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and of high quality.
• Facilitate all Agile ceremonies for the project’s scrum team, including sprint planning, story grooming, daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Liaise and coordinate between project stakeholders (including deal execution teams, Sales, Product Managers, Operations and Engineers) to ensure high quality solutions are being delivered and benefits are realized.
• Manage the collation and updates to the project RAID log (Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies) and take proactive action to mitigate such items as soon as possible.
• Own and share project status reports on a regular basis to keep all necessary stakeholders up to date on progress and risk items.
• Collate a robust project delivery schedule and manage any changes to scope or milestone delivery with stakeholders, ensuring agreement on such changes.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing and sign-off to ensure quality solutions are implemented.
• Work with multiple business units across different functions and geographical regions to streamline process, and help define solutions to increase efficiency, mitigate risk and costs.
• Construct process flow documentation in order to identify potential issues and areas of inefficiency, along with highlighting functional insights of the current state process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees