Old Second National Bank
Project Manager
Old Second National Bank, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States, 60516
Who We Are
At Old Second, you're first! For more than 150 years, Old Second has consistently put businesses and individuals throughout the Chicago area first, and we're only getting started.
With great employees we've grown from a single location in the back of a general store to 50 locations and over $6 billion dollars in assets. At Old Second we embrace values that foster an environment of community and growth. Recently, we've been voted a Forbes Best-In-State Bank for Illinois by our customers. Be a part of something big as we continue our growth story together!Project Manager
is responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and management of projects. They will work with Old Second National Bank’s Senior managers, business analysts, and other internal and external business partners to ensure that all projects are completed on time and on budget. The PM ensures that a successful business outcome is the prime measure of project success and has a solid understanding of their line of business and is able to facilitate communication with other managers and stakeholders efficiently and effectively. The Project Manager must be able to effectively manage multiple projects at once while still providing clear direction to their team members.Essential Job Functions:Directs complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix partners.Works with managers in all business lines to ensure projects are staffed with the right mix of people who exhibit the required perspectives, skills, and behaviors.Accountable for defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering assigned projects.Provides leadership, motivation, coaching, mentoring, and professional development for project teams to obtain a high level of cooperation and contribution from all project members.Ensures the mechanisms of change management (plans, processes, tools) are in place and effectively executed.Ensures project issues and risks are identified, quantified, managed, and tracked. Uses past experience to proactively anticipate risk and develop appropriate mitigation strategies and plans.Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed-on time, cost, and quality parameters.Ensures all stakeholders are informed of progress and issues.Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.Defines the project management process, standards, deliverables, and operational cadence necessary to ensure consistent project execution.Drives a culture of continuous improvement throughout the company.Proactively monitors progress, resolves issues, and manages inter-dependencies between other work streams of the program.Ensures the appropriate scheduling of project deliverables to meet the plan in conjunction with IT and other relevant business areas.Negotiates priorities as necessary and escalates issues appropriately.Collaborates and communicates with third parties, executive sponsors, senior management stakeholders, and partner groups.Builds credible, trusted advisory relationships with key stakeholders at all levels of the organization and also third parties.Delivers regular progress reports which present a concise, accurate status of the program.Follows standard criteria, practices, and reporting for partners that utilize general Operational Client Consulting.Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues.Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.Minimum Requirements:Bachelor’s Degree and four or more years of experience in project management, bank operations, or financial setting which involves managing projects and deliverables, or equivalent combination of education and experience.Competencies:Demonstrated experience managing large and complex program implementations with multiple systems involved.Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, and non-verbal.Prior experience successfully managing multi-million-dollar budgets.Previous experience managing vendors and 3rd party providers.Demonstrated analytical skills that include problem-solving and risk mitigation.Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills.Demonstrated experience creating program KPIs (key performance indicators) and managing a program's strengths and areas of improvement against those guidelines.Industry-specific knowledge and experience is an asset.Solid change leadership and management skills.MS Project and Visio proficient.Strong analytical and program management skills are essential.Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills required.Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.Sound business and technical acumen.Working knowledge of banking operations.Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.Knowledge of API/Integration technologies.Preferred, but not required:PMP Certification from the Project Management Institute.Experience in bank core conversions.Knowledge of Automation and Scripting Tools.SQL knowledge.Thanks for considering Old Second!
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At Old Second, you're first! For more than 150 years, Old Second has consistently put businesses and individuals throughout the Chicago area first, and we're only getting started.
With great employees we've grown from a single location in the back of a general store to 50 locations and over $6 billion dollars in assets. At Old Second we embrace values that foster an environment of community and growth. Recently, we've been voted a Forbes Best-In-State Bank for Illinois by our customers. Be a part of something big as we continue our growth story together!Project Manager
is responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and management of projects. They will work with Old Second National Bank’s Senior managers, business analysts, and other internal and external business partners to ensure that all projects are completed on time and on budget. The PM ensures that a successful business outcome is the prime measure of project success and has a solid understanding of their line of business and is able to facilitate communication with other managers and stakeholders efficiently and effectively. The Project Manager must be able to effectively manage multiple projects at once while still providing clear direction to their team members.Essential Job Functions:Directs complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and matrix partners.Works with managers in all business lines to ensure projects are staffed with the right mix of people who exhibit the required perspectives, skills, and behaviors.Accountable for defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering assigned projects.Provides leadership, motivation, coaching, mentoring, and professional development for project teams to obtain a high level of cooperation and contribution from all project members.Ensures the mechanisms of change management (plans, processes, tools) are in place and effectively executed.Ensures project issues and risks are identified, quantified, managed, and tracked. Uses past experience to proactively anticipate risk and develop appropriate mitigation strategies and plans.Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed-on time, cost, and quality parameters.Ensures all stakeholders are informed of progress and issues.Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.Defines the project management process, standards, deliverables, and operational cadence necessary to ensure consistent project execution.Drives a culture of continuous improvement throughout the company.Proactively monitors progress, resolves issues, and manages inter-dependencies between other work streams of the program.Ensures the appropriate scheduling of project deliverables to meet the plan in conjunction with IT and other relevant business areas.Negotiates priorities as necessary and escalates issues appropriately.Collaborates and communicates with third parties, executive sponsors, senior management stakeholders, and partner groups.Builds credible, trusted advisory relationships with key stakeholders at all levels of the organization and also third parties.Delivers regular progress reports which present a concise, accurate status of the program.Follows standard criteria, practices, and reporting for partners that utilize general Operational Client Consulting.Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues.Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.Minimum Requirements:Bachelor’s Degree and four or more years of experience in project management, bank operations, or financial setting which involves managing projects and deliverables, or equivalent combination of education and experience.Competencies:Demonstrated experience managing large and complex program implementations with multiple systems involved.Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, and non-verbal.Prior experience successfully managing multi-million-dollar budgets.Previous experience managing vendors and 3rd party providers.Demonstrated analytical skills that include problem-solving and risk mitigation.Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills.Demonstrated experience creating program KPIs (key performance indicators) and managing a program's strengths and areas of improvement against those guidelines.Industry-specific knowledge and experience is an asset.Solid change leadership and management skills.MS Project and Visio proficient.Strong analytical and program management skills are essential.Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills required.Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.Sound business and technical acumen.Working knowledge of banking operations.Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.Knowledge of API/Integration technologies.Preferred, but not required:PMP Certification from the Project Management Institute.Experience in bank core conversions.Knowledge of Automation and Scripting Tools.SQL knowledge.Thanks for considering Old Second!
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