Director, Project Management- Finance

Director, Project Management- Finance

Company:

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams.

Capital One, a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation’s top 10 banks, offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Our goal is to create one of the nation’s great banks, and we have the necessary ingredients: a strong balance sheet, resilient businesses, a massive customer franchise, strong analytical capabilities, and great people. We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds, guided by our shared values, come together to make Capital One a great company – and a great place to work.

Role:

The Finance organization is seeking a highly organized and self-motivated Director to join the Finance Integrated Program & Delivery team. As a Director of Project Management, you will be uniquely positioned to have line of sight and influence over Capital One’s most strategic and complex initiatives with downstream impacts to the Finance organization. More specifically, you will lead an organization of project managers focused on partnering with lines of business (specifically Bank and Financial Services) to help them flawlessly execute their top priorities. You will leverage agile and/or waterfall methodologies while ensuring well-managed, timely and effective delivery.  You will also escalate, and gain buy-in from key stakeholders concerning respective programs to ensure appropriate execution all while coaching and developing a high performing team. This is an exciting opportunity for a well-rounded candidate to help boldly model the future of the Finance organization. 

Specific responsibilities related to project management include:

• Demonstrates a proven track record of excellent program management, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic complex environment

• Driving all phases of project management to include feasibility, definition, planning, prioritization, implementation and close out of projects

• Effectively applying project management methodology and standards, and ensuring project documents are complete and up to date

• Displaying cross-functional teamwork, communication, negotiation and leading across all levels

• Partnering cross-functionally with key stakeholders to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery

• Working with cross functional teams and influencing others to work toward common goal, regardless of resource and time constraints

• Creating transparency and fostering relationships to adjacent teams 

Our ideal candidate will also have the following skills:

• Proven ability to build a team strategy and effectively develop and lead a team of associates in pursuit of top performance

• Understanding of financial systems and processes

• Demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast-paced environment

• High degree of organizational skills and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously; prioritizes based on impact and makes difficult tradeoffs to meet deadlines

• Effective communicator – ability to create clarity amongst diverse groups from team members to stakeholders

• Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills – ability to establish metrics and utilize data to measure operational efficiency, team health, and partnership effectiveness

• Asks the tough questions and challenges the status quo

  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or military experience

• At least 5 years of experience in Project Management

• At least 3 years of experience in People Management

• At least 2 years of experience in Strategic planning

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