Sr. Director, PMO - HR

Early Warning Services • Scottsdale, AZ

1d • $188,000 - $235,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses. Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment. Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship. Overall Purpose Enable strategic direction by implementing PMO policies, procedures and processes to ensure effective project execution in alignment with achieving company initiatives. Additionally, responsible for the daily leadership of the PMO team including leading key prioritized project(s).

Requirements

• Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Project Management and/or Computer Science or related field.
• Typically 15 or more years of progressive related experience.
• Proven leadership experience in managing large teams on enterprise wide initiatives.
• Demonstrated people leadership in business and technical environments.
• Demonstrated P&L experience from both a department and project level.
• Excellent oral, written, and inter-personal skills, as well as strong analytical skills.
• Proven experience presenting and influencing at the C-Suite level.
• Conflict resolution and negotiation experience.
• MS 365 (PPT, Word, Excel, Project, etc.)
• Background and drug screen

Nice To Haves

• Tracker project management software
• Tech Specific Preferred Qualifications
• Financial services or financial technology environment experience
• Agile or Waterfall methodologies experience
• Knowledge of all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology
• Outsourcing experience.

Responsibilities

• Leading high performance team: Provides effective leadership and develops and manages a highly engaged, high performance team ensures effective delivery of project/program outcomes in terms of cost, schedule, budget and quality.
• Service Excellence: Provides executive governance and communications to ensure effective resource utilization and prioritization. On-going monitoring and evaluation of processes and methodologies ensuring effective execution of projects.
• Operational Effectiveness: Monitors project execution performance compared to target, taking corrective where necessary.
• Strategic Partner: Manages executive communication and escalations across the organization related to the execution of programs.
• Change management champion: Drives and reinforces change within the team to better align the culture so that it is focused on repeatable, consistent execution of projects.
• Financial stewardship: Monitors and ensures integrity of the business case financials to ensure alignment with the company’s strategic goals.
• Support the company's commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director