Project Manager, Professional Services

Abacus Group is a fast-growing technology company focused on providing Hedge Funds, Private Equity firms & Healthcare clients with cloud-based IT solutions. They are seeking a motivated Project Manager who will develop project plans and manage resources to ensure successful project completion while interacting with global teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a full understanding of customer requirements, identifying project deliverables and outcomes
• Working with clients from project initiation to completion, which encompasses the planning, organizing, and management of resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives
• Develop and monitor schedules to ensure that projects are completed within established deadlines
• Assist with the development of project plans, including project timelines, budgets, and resource requirements
• Identifying project risks, mitigation strategies and communicating status and risk issues to stakeholders
• Lead status meetings, tracks and maintains detailed issues and risks lists, and prepares appropriate project meeting minutes and status reports
• Meet regularly with related service providers to ensure that integration issues are identified and resolved
• Interfaces with all levels of business and technical management staff, as well as project teams to facilitate problem resolution and the resolution of competing priorities
• Monitors team progress to ensure that project objectives are met

Requirements:

• Must have 3-5 years of experience in executing small to mid-sized technology projects focused on client infrastructure onboarding
• Must possess strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills. Must be motivated, decisive, flexible, and possess sound business judgment
• Ability to handle and manage stressful situations in a professional manner
• Strong presentation skills, both oral and written, with the ability to lead meetings
• Strong proficiency in Office 365, SharePoint and Azure
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project or the equivalent
• Ability to manage multiple tactical and strategic project initiatives
• Ability to manage remote resources and projects
• Ability to prioritize project requests from business and technical teams
• Ability to protect project scope and set expectations with the customer
• Experience within an IT Service Provider environment would be advantageous
• Relevant Project Management certification a plus