Sr. Project Manager - Remote

Company Description

Longbridge Financial, LLC (LBF) is an innovative company committed to responsibly helping senior homeowners reshape their financial future to improve their retirement. Our mission is to be consistently fair, transparent, and professional at all times with our employees, customers, and partners.

Recognized as an Industry Changemaker, Longbridge CEO Chris Mayer looks at the industry differently and values employees at all levels who drive our company forward.  In fact, we are now a top 2 reverse mortgage lender.

Why work with us?

At Longbridge Financial, “We do the right thing” is more than a mantra, it’s our guarantee.  We want to attract the best and brightest—that’s why we’re committed to giving our employees the support they need and the respect they deserve. We offer competitive compensation packages and benefits, as well as a strong marketing and operations foundation. Join us for a rewarding career with remarkable growth potential.  Ready to be changemaker and be a part of a team to help propel Longbridge to number one?

Job Description

General Responsibilities:

The Senior Project Manager (Sr. PM) is accountable for successfully executing on strategic project investments through collaboration with key stakeholders, definition/documentation of business problems and opportunities and ensuring project solutions will meet the business case defined in the project initiation document (PID) through the collection and management of project-related requirements. The Sr. PM must be able to independently manage multiple concurrent projects with little to no direction from their supervisor and may need to reconcile vague or conflicting business requirements through conducting interviews with stakeholders. The PM will carefully plan and document the project scope, schedule and budget, monitor project work items to ensure they remain on track, monitor project risks and develop mitigation plans, escalating them to the Head of EPMO when appropriate. For projects with technology deliverables, the Sr. PM is expected to monitor QA testing to completion, develop business testing plans conduct testing with the business and obtain written sign off to proceed to production to ensure the quality of completed work and that project work is compliant with SOX required controls and any other relevant regulatory entities. The Sr. PM will ensure any completed work is successfully adopted by its users by planning and executing plans for training and rollout of completed work by supplying users with vital information about the impact of completed project work and any responsibilities the users will have to adopt completed project work.

Primary Job Duties:

• Successfully and independently moving project work forward to meet the agreed timelines,
• Documentation and approval of project scope, schedule and budget by the project sponsor, stakeholders, project team and resource managers.
• Follow the approved project management process and complete all required project documents including business requirements, wireframes, project plans, budgets, stakeholder lists, risk registers, status meetings, issue logs, plans for training, testing and rollout, communications to end users, executive presentations, release management and deployment plans.
• Scheduling required meetings with the project team, sponsor or business users, sending meeting agendas in advance, meeting minutes after the meeting and updating the project management documents based on the discussions.
• Facilitate business requirement gathering sessions and control the requirements management process by creating a common understanding of requirements between stakeholders, communicating critical dates for delivering requirements, understanding critical needs vs. nice to haves and maintaining a single, organized repository of requirements.
• Plan the project work in advance using a project plan which is updated with the team at status meetings. Develop strategic plans for requirements, testing, training and rollout and ensure shared understanding of these plans with the customer, project team and sponsor.
• Manage the project team members on their project-related deliverables, identifying and assisting them in overcoming barriers to completing project work and collaborating successfully with the team.