KPMG US is seeking an Agile Project Manager to oversee the successful planning, tracking, and execution of multiple complex programs and projects. The role involves facilitating customer-centric outcomes, managing project schedules and budgets, and leading teams to achieve high performance and quality in project delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate the delivery of customer-centric outcomes through the sustained use of consistent methods, people-focused engagement, and the systematic reduction in non-value-added work
- Establish positive, collaborative relationships with customers in order to meet their goals and objectives
- Lead internal customers and teams in the development and maintenance of project, program, or program iteration artifacts, such as scope, approach, solution, plan, resources, and estimates for strategic, on-premises or cloud-based IT application development or infrastructure projects
- Define a program or project’s schedule and scope focused on the timely and systematic delivery of outcomes for the customer
- Develop, track and manage project forecasts and costs; request budget allocation and reallocations; ensure the project and/or program is within budget; manage and control changes to scope
- Be the program or project’s entrepreneurial advocate, ensuring communication transparency, optimizing the risk profile and enhancing the benefit realization for the customer
- Manage resource plans, facilitate team meetings, publish meeting notes and action items, ensure follow up with team members, update project documents and systems, ensure timely completion of action items; facilitate post-project/phase reviews
- Drive the program and project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality, holding teams accountable for their work, fully engaged in the program or project, and removing roadblocks
- Adhere, and contribute to, the unabated optimization of the project and program management standards, processes, and governance, including tools and reporting
- Develop and execute organizational change management plans to ensure the seamless adoption of new systems and processes
- Mentor, train and coach less experienced team members on standards, processes, and tools
Requirements:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience managing IT enterprise projects that are high-risk strategic, transformational, on-premises or cloud-based, involving IT application development and infrastructure
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
- Scrum or SAFe Agile certification and PMP or Prince 2 Certification
- Participate in and facilitate post program and project reviews to cultivate a learning organization
- Project management experience that includes full lifecycle software development using industry best practices and methodologies, including agile, hybrid and waterfall
- Strong verbal/written communication, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority
- Must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork
- Prefer experience as an agile coach
- Experience as a ScrumMaster, leading Agile ceremonies, facilitating scrum teams, measuring team velocity, reporting on team progress, and removing impediments for assigned team(s) as well as coordinating a Sprint backlog in conjunction with Product Owner and team members preferred