Job description
Job Code: 2022-PN-BR-CS-078Company: Postlethwaite & Netterville
Department: Consulting
Job Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Job Status: Regular Full-Time
IT Project Manager
Targeting the Baton Rouge, LA Area
100% Remote Opportunity with the ability to travel to client site if needed
For more than 70 years, Postlethwaite & Netterville (P&N), APAC has helped businesses and individuals across the country shape clearer paths forward. Our professional accounting and assurance, consulting, tax, and technology services allow clients to streamline and organize operations, comply with changing regulations, and boost business growth with the right technological tools. As Louisiana’s top CPA firm, our rapid growth is continuing. We are looking for leaders to GROW WITH US!
Working with a variety of clients, we are seeking an IT Project Manager to be responsible for high level oversight and management of large, multi-faceted Agile projects and/or multiple projects simultaneously. The role will work with leadership on the development, execution, and tracking of Agile project plans. This consultant may provide Business Analysis, requirements definition, and software testing support to the user base. This is able to be a fully remote opportunity with the understanding travel to the client site may be needed if necessary.
What You'll Need (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems and Decision Sciences, or a related field (although 4+ years of relevant experience may substitute education requirement)
- 5 to 7 years of direct experience in Agile project management or consulting
- Proficiency of Scrum or other Agile methodologies
- Must have an in-depth understanding of Agile, its values and principles, including backlog grooming, release and sprint planning, burn-up/down charts, and more
- Must be able to effectively manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and adjust priorities appropriately in an evolving work environment with shifting time frames
- Ability to work in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Must be able to lead, build, and manage effective teams for small, medium, and large scale projects
- Experience with agileapplication delivery processes, system development life cycle, businessassessments, and programs such as JIRA, Confluence, Asana, Zephyr,TestRail, Trello, Basecamp, TFS
- Experienced in Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
- Leads, directs and manages projects and multi-disciplinary tasks within scope of program or project to support Agile teams.
- Performs assessments of business needs and assists developers to translate these needs into project requirements
- Tracks and confirms business system development and implementation efforts.
- Creates and distributes regular reports on project progress, blockers, milestones, and resource needs.
- Helps identify and clear roadblocks for Agile teams.
- Communicates effectively and consistently with all project stakeholders.
- Serves as one of the firm’s prime contacts with the client.
- Serves as a liaison between technical and non-technical departments.
- Identifies resources needed and assigning individual responsibilities within a project.
- Works with other leadership to define project scope and deliver a detailed plan for a successful outcome based on project objectives.
- Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
- Attends process improvement meetings to; identify people, process and technology improvements to be made improve team and project performance.
- Promotes transparency at all times regarding project status, issues and risks to stakeholders.
- Builds and maintains trusted relationships with diverse group of clients, team members, managers, and subject matter experts.
- Participates in the development and implementation of structured testing concepts, methodologies, and manual testing support tools.
- Ensures compliance with applicable policies and procedures, laws and regulations, and keeps current on compliance-related areas.
- Prepares deliverables/reports for review by the Associate Director that include any noted issues, trends and other micro/macro level risks identified through the execution of projects activities.
- Performs and oversees functionality testing of new applications and existing software enhancements to ensure they meet business requirements through performing end to end business scenario tests.
- Performs and oversees regression testing of new applications and existing software enhancements to identify any possible impacts caused by changes.
- Records and discusses test results with key individuals involved and determine necessary next steps to ensure desired results.
- Tracks quality assurance metrics such as defect impact and open defect counts.
- Maintains and manages the manual scripts and test results.
- Verifies and traces evidence of reproduction of any reported faults in existing software.
- Re-tests and oversees all fixes required for reported faults, including tests for possible impacts from changes.
- Ongoing mentoring of team, performing assessment and completion of performance appraisals, promotion recommendations, and professional development.
Work/Life Balance : Paid Time Off, Paid Parental Program, Paid Holidays, Dress for your Day policy, Volunteer Opportunities, Fun Team Activities
Financial Benefits : 401(k) Plan with Matching/Profit Sharing Contribution, Voluntary & Group Life Insurance, Short- and long-term Disability Insurance, Medical FSA, Dependent Care and Adoption Assistance, Competitive Salaries, Employee Referral Bonuses
Health & Wellness : Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Health Savings Account with In-hospital Benefit
Americans With Disabilities
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of the job successfully with or without reasonable accommodations. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and listen. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to focus. This position spends a significant amount of time sitting and operating a computer. Lifting requirements will not typically exceed 25 pounds.
Work Environment: Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully with or without reasonable accommodations. The work environment is considered to be that of a typical business/office operation. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Joinour team of professionals and take a firm step forward in your career.With defined career paths for a range of specialties and skill sets,P&N is a place where professionals of all experience levels thrive.Our Lifelong Learning program, combined with technical trainingopportunities for staff, ensure that this is a place where our employeescan grow — and with a rich office culture and a strong commitment towork/life balance, P&N is a place where you'll be happy to do so.
Postlethwaite& Netterville (P&N), APAC is an equal opportunity/affirmativeaction employer. Employment selection and related decisions are madewithout regard to age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, nationalorigin, religion, genetic information, disability, protected veteranstatus or other protected classifications.
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