Principal Project Manager, Financial Services

Plano 1 (31061), United States of America, Plano, Texas

Principal Project Manager, Financial Services

Capital One is looking for a Project Manager to support the Financial Services Division. We are looking for someone who is not only a strong strategic leader, but who also demonstrates strong problem solving and influencing skills.

As a Project Manager in Financial Services, you can achieve results you never thought possible by leading critical and strategic business projects and programs. This role provides the opportunity to deliver complex, cross-functional initiatives that drive the company forward by exposing you to various professional areas within the company. If you are passionate about problem solving, learning how to lead with influence and driving game-changing results, this role could be for you.

Throughout your experience, you’ll work with intelligent, driven people who will challenge you to excel. You’ll also enhance your leadership skills by ensuring cross-functional teams successfully deliver value to the organization. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Working on medium to large-scale complex, cross-functional projects

• Driving cross-functional projects based on defined priorities; ensuring scope of deliverables, timelines and budget are met; identifying risks and issues and mitigating or escalating as needed; managing complex up and downstream project impacts.

• Planning, designing, managing and executing project plans to ensure delivery. This activity includes management through feasibility, design, planning and implementation.

• Leveraging problem solving skills to ensure project plans deliver on intent and maintain key project documentation

• Conducting regular meetings with the project team. Documenting progress and reporting to stakeholders on project status.

• Partnering with project customers to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery

• Forging relationships with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments

• Communicating and facilitating effectively across diverse audiences 

• Identifying risks and issues and mitigating or escalating as needed

• Identifying ways to improve or streamline business processes

• Facilitating meetings and ensuring that project documentation is created and maintained in a well managed way

Our team is looking for an individual who is adaptable, eager to learn, and comfortable taking on new challenges in a fast-paced environment.

If this type of work excites you, we want you!

An ideal candidate will:

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

• Demonstrate strong and open communication and leadership skills with team members and stakeholders which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders across all levels to manage, inform, and influence outcomes

• Build a positive and motivating team environment

• Demonstrate organizational agility to adapt to changing demands

• Display the ability to autonomously manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Military Experience

• At least 3 years of Project Management experience

• At least 1 year of experience presenting to Senior Leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of Project Management experience

• 1+ year of Jira experience

• PMP, Agile or Six Sigma certification

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment,