Enterprise Project Manager

About American Savings Bank
American Savings Bank (ASB) has been serving Hawaii’s businesses and communities since 1925 and currently provides a full range of financial products and services, including business and consumer banking, home loans, insurance and investments. ASB is one of Hawaii’s leading financial institutions, with e-banking services and branch locations throughout the state offering evening, weekend and holiday hours.

American Savings Bank matches its exceptional customer experience with an employee experience that has garnered local and national awards. ASB has been recognized locally as one of the Best Places to Work by Hawaii Business Magazine for ten consecutive years and honored nationally as one of the Best Banks to Work For by American Banker Magazine. Fortune Magazine has recognized ASB as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Women and 50 Best Workplaces for Diversity.

For more than 90 years, ASB has been helping build strong communities. Through its Seeds of Service program, ASB teammates have contributed nearly 48,000 hours of volunteer service, and ASB has donated millions of dollars to Hawaii’s nonprofits and community organizations.

Primary Purpose of Job
Manages the overall direction, coordination, planning, execution and completion of medium to large and complex, enterprise-level projects. Enterprise projects include both technology and business-related deliverables. Builds relationships with technology and business teammates and successfully balances the needs of the project stakeholders with the objectives of the project. Leads and drives the project to completion while ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.

Major Job Accountabilities

• Understands the Bank’s vision, strategic objectives, priorities, workstreams, and valuation linkages for all projects & initiatives and facilitates the definition of project scope, goals, and objectives.
• Develops detailed project management plans and identifies project task and deliverables to build a project schedule. Drives and manages the project according to plan to achieve the desired objectives and delivers the approved scope on-time, within budget, and with the expected quality.
• Provides direction, support, and leadership to a cross-functional team comprised of teammates from all levels of the enterprise.
• Assists in building business case justification for projects, including financial analysis, cost/benefit analysis, and definition of appropriate metrics to measure success and benefits. Manages the project to ensure project scope and execution align with the business case and benefit objectives. Manages and controls the project budget.
• Acts as a project management mentor and supports informal training of other Bank teammates on project management best practices, tools, and techniques.
• Applies critical thinking, conflict management, and process improvement with a solution-oriented mindset.

Education Requirements
Four-year college degree majoring in Business, Accounting, Engineering, or other related fields, or equivalent combination of work experience and education

Experience Required

• Five (5) years of work experience in project management, with a focus on technology, software development, application implementation, process improvement, or operations
• Three (3) years of work experience in enterprise-level financial management experience, including budgeting and forecasting, accrual accounting, financial reporting, and cost/benefit analysis

Required Skills or Training

• General knowledge of the banking and financial management industry, and experience with implementing projects or technology solutions within a bank is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated success in the management and implementation of medium to large, complex business- and technology-driven projects. In-depth knowledge and experience in applying project management best practices and familiar with the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles and practices of risk management, accounting/financial reporting, process improvement, and internal controls.
• Must be familiar with the vendor procurement process and have demonstrated success with vendor management and driving vendor delivery of an application, tool, or solution.
• Self-motivated with excellent analytical, critical thinking, organizational, and planning skills. Attention to detail is a must, with the ability to work under pressure and with tight timelines.
• Excellent written, verbal, listening, interpersonal, and presentation skills to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization and external vendor partners.
• Strong teamwork, collaboration, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills to partner across varying departments to successfully deliver on a united objective.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Familiarity in working with web-based applications is desirable.

Professional Certifications, Licenses, and/or Registration Requirements

• Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of process and continuous improvement, including basic Six Sigma principles, is desirable.