Project Manager

🕒 March 4

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Municipal Credit Union

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1916

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Banking • Finance • Fintech

Municipal Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial institution dedicated to serving the banking and lending needs of its members in New York City. Offering a range of personal banking products including checking and savings accounts, loans, credit cards, and insurance services, MCU focuses on helping its members achieve their financial goals through competitive rates and personalized support. With over 100 years of service, MCU emphasizes community engagement and the fulfillment of financial needs of local municipal workers and their families.

📋 Description

• Operationalize and enforce the PMO governance framework across assigned projects and programs. • Ensure adherence to PMO standards, methodologies, documentation requirements, and stage-gate controls. • Maintain independent oversight of required project artifacts including charters, business cases, financial approvals, RAID logs, decision logs, and change documentation. • Escalate governance non-compliance, control gaps, or material risks to PMO leadership and appropriate governance forums. • Support portfolio-level processes including project intake, prioritization, dependency management, resource alignment, and structured escalation. • Identify systemic delivery risks, recurring control weaknesses, and emerging portfolio trends; provide early warning insights to leadership. • Prepare governance materials and decision-support reporting for steering committees and portfolio review forums. • Partner with PMO leadership to continuously enhance governance processes, tooling, and maturity. • Lead assigned projects from initiation through closure in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards. • Develop and maintain comprehensive oversight of enterprise project plans, schedules, milestones, and financial forecasts. • Facilitate project ceremonies and governance checkpoints appropriate to the delivery methodology in use, including Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid approaches. • Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and changes; assess cumulative impact and escalate when appropriate. • Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, accountability, and sustained execution momentum. • Monitor and report on project financials including budget adherence, vendor spend and forecast variance. • Partner with Finance to validate financial assumptions, capital versus expense treatment, and budget controls where applicable. • Ensure change management and stakeholder impact assessments are incorporated into project execution plans. • Serve as a central coordination point between business units, technology teams, and PMO leadership. • Provide clear, concise, and timely reporting at both project and portfolio levels. • Translate governance requirements into practical guidance for delivery teams. • Present structured updates, risk insights, and recommendations to senior leadership and executive forums. • Build trusted relationships that balance accountability, collaboration, and transparency. • Produce comprehensive project and portfolio reporting highlighting health indicators, trends, financial status, and emerging risks. • Analyze delivery performance and governance adherence data to identify improvement opportunities. • Support enterprise-level reporting that connects project execution performance to strategic objectives. • Contribute to PMO maturity initiatives including tooling enhancements, process optimization, and governance refinement. • Support onboarding and coaching of project managers on PMO standards, governance expectations, and best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, project management, finance, or related field OR minimum five (5) years of experience in project management, PMO governance, or program delivery roles. • Financial institution experience required. • Experience in banking, lending, operations, or regulated financial environments strongly required. • Demonstrated experience operating within a structured PMO governance framework. • Proven ability to manage cross-functional initiatives involving business and technology stakeholders. • Strong facilitation and executive communication skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership. • Experience with enterprise portfolio management tools and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. • Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and manage competing priorities. • PMP certification required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Medical and dental benefits • 401K with employer match • Flexible paid time off