Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for leading enterprise business and technical projects end to end, business process improvements, data migrations and conversion, integrations and consolidations and organizational change management. This position is accountable for delivering all projects and work efforts, within a program or portfolio, on schedule, within budget, and with customers' expected deliverables deployed while adhering to applicable regulatory/compliance governance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Adhere to and continuously improve common set of project management practices, tools and templates for program and project level initiative.
• Hands-on approach to leading high-risk, high-dollar and complex programs/projects, supporting acquisitions and conversions while being backwards compatible to perform QA and Analyst functions when necessary such as Requirements, Test Plans, Training, etc.
• Develop and manage schedules while negotiating with resource managers to secure key resources using appropriate capacity models.
• Works with the Sr. Leadership, Business and vendors to build and ensure communications to sponsor, steering committee, and other project stakeholders are effective.
• Responsible for understanding, applying and advocating internal project management and SDLC processes and controls.
• Manage project financials, process and manage invoices, track project capitalization vs expense, manage forecast budget to actuals as appropriate to company accounting standards.
• Responsible for fostering key relationships with Senior Leadership, Business SME's, Support Leads, bank employees and 3rd Party vendors at the bank.
• Prepare and facilitate meetings with all levels of staff for purposes of discovery, discussions, presentations, reviews, approvals, risk mitigation and decision making.
• Audits performance of the portfolio, project plans, project artifacts, project teams, project collaboration sites (i.e. schedule, costs, risks, issues, decisions) and project financials/forecasts.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years' experience as a project manager in the Banking or Fin tech industry required
• Strong understanding on PMBOK required.
• Direct/Indirect experience with regulators, internal auditors and/or external auditors required.
• PMP or alternative advance Project Management certification preferred.
• Smartsheet Certification or alternative PM Tool certification preferred.

A reasonable, good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum base salary or pay for this position is $110,483 to $165,725 Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. A discretionary bonus and/or business line incentive may be provided, in addition to a medical and other benefits, dependent on the position. For more information regarding our benefits, please visit https://www.ppbi.com/careers.html

CA (Los Angeles applicants): Applicants are notified that the Company is an insured depository institution subject to the restrictions and requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 CFR 303) ("Section 19"). In accordance with Section 19, the Company will consider an applicant's criminal history after an applicant is made a conditional offer of employment. Qualified applicants with criminal conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance. Section 19 may prohibit the Company from employing an applicant with criminal conviction(s) for fraud, breach of trust, embezzlement, mishandling of money or any crime of violence may have a direct impact on the job duties as set forth in the job description and such convictions may result in withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance. Because of the nature of our business, a review of your criminal history is necessary to comply with Section 19 and to avoid substantial risk to our business operations and licensing.

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