THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING:

• Large mid-market company focused on digital financial services and technology who is experiencing tremendous growth
• A dynamic team of technical experts that have helped a myriad North American companies cut costs and increase efficiency to their back office processes
• Organization that gives back to the community and focuses heavily on empowering future generations

WHAT THEY OFFER YOU:

• A diverse and inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to bring new ideas to the table and feel a sense of purpose and belonging
• A focus on all aspects of "wellbeing" providing opportunities to support growth in physical, mental/emotional, financial, and community health
• A wide range of training opportunities through partnerships with local colleges, LinkedIn, and Microsoft
• Primary focus of the role is to assist in the optimization of the strategic portfolio to ensure seamless prioritization of work, backlog and dependency management, robust financial and resource management, and communication/change management.

LOCATION:

• Charlotte - Hybrid schedule 

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Works collaboratively with Portfolio/Program management, Product, and IT to maintain the strategic project portfolio alignment with Business and IT strategy
• Manages/improves portfolio delivery performance measures/targets (KPIs)
• Assists with the prioritization of the portfolio backlog
• Maintains oversight of in-flight initiatives (WIP) and team assignments for greater capacity analysis and management
• Identifies dependencies and critical paths and develops processes to maintain dependency tracking between product roadmaps and projects in collaboration with management and program/project managers
• Manages/improves portfolio governance standards, methods, and processes
• Updates and maintains the integrated portfolio roadmap based on latest changes on project and program level
• Analyze and report on the performance of the project portfolio and individual programs throughout the entire lifecycle
• Tracks, monitors, and mitigates critical portfolio-wide risks and issues and escalates to the appropriate leadership meetings
• Assists in the implementation, roll-out and adoption of portfolio management tools

HOW YOU ARE QUALIFIED:

• 5 or more years of program/project and/or portfolio management experience
• Lean management, agile development or design thinking experience and qualifications
• Demonstrated ability to drive change management within a complex, high-growth matrixed organization
• Experience with senior executives and ability to create and deliver executive level summary reports / presentations
• Skillfully resolve conflict, persuade, and negotiate with internal and external parties
• Skill in focusing on desired results, determining what is important, urgent, clarifying next steps, and delegating effectively to meet deadlines and achieve desired results
• Ability to work autonomously while maintaining a high-level of transparency into key decisions and issues
• Experience with portfolio/project management tools (Aha!, Azure Dev Ops, ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams preferred) is nice to have
• Experience in FinTech, B2B, Payments preferred is nice to have
• PMI/PMP, Agile, and/or progress toward certification is highly preferred but not required