Project Manager - Dallas, TX
About the team:
Capco is a fully independent, global management and technology consultancy providing services to the Financial Services and Energy industries. For nearly 20 years we have combined innovative thinking with deep industry knowledge to deliver business consulting, digital transformation and technology services to our clients. Our collaborative and efficient approach helps clients reduce costs and manage risk and regulatory change while increasing revenues. We are thinkers, innovators, and disruptors. We are small enough to care but large enough to matter.
About the Job:
As a Project Manager at Capco, you will play a key role in the delivery of projects and change initiatives for leading clients across all industries, including but not limited to Gas & Oil, Electric Utilities, Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Wealth and/or Insurance.
A Project Manager will work closely with project teams, vendors, and client stakeholders to resolve conflicts and remove barriers, ensuring deliverables are on-time and meet quality standards. The Project Manager will assist with end-to-end planning, monitor project progress and set deadlines, manage risks and issues, prioritize tasks, drive operational readiness and conduct project meetings.
What You'll Get to Do:
- Manage cross-functional projects across multiple lines of business on enterprise-wide initiatives
- Apply a consultative approach to assist with functional, technical, and operational planning and design
- Manage workstreams (potentially leveraging Agile processes) and partner with clients, technology vendors, and project teams to ensure on-time, and on-budget, quality delivery
- Develop milestone-level project plans including key timelines, critical path, owners, and dependencies
- Work with the project team to drive operational readiness activities including communication, training and procedural and reporting updates
- Be responsible for tracking and driving risks, issues and decisions and ensure that the team can deliver with minimal blockers
What You'll Bring with You:
- Banking/Financial Services experience preferred
- Hands-on experience leading program/projects (project planning, project controls/monitoring, budget management, setting and managing customer expectations) utilizing waterfall, iterative and Agile practices and methods
- Experience leading large, complex projects and ability to lead multiple project teams and projects simultaneously
- Proven history as a self-starter who can work independently with minimal supervision and ability to be influence and establish positive working relationships throughout the organization, including senior management
- The individual must be comfortable working across business and IT domains and possess the ability to shift between technical analysis and business value discussions.
- Experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Rally, Confluence, Trello, etc.)
Why Capco?
You will join a company that supports and encourages an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. Capco is not about organizational charts and layers - we operate with little hierarchy because we want all employees to feel that Capco is their firm.
We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.
Ready to get started?
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.
