FactSet serves over 180,000 investment professionals with flexible data and software solutions, driving smart investment decisions and financial innovation. Our Technology PMO manages major initiatives and promotes best practices across our Technology division.
We’re looking to add an early-career, motivated problem solver for our project management team, ideally with 2-5 years of post-college experience and a track record in cross-functional technology projects. The PMO supports functions like Platform, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, AI & ML, and Enterprise Data Solutions.
Our Technology Project Managers deliver FactSet's tech stack value to clients, requiring technical literacy and agile leadership across organizations. This high-exposure role involves collaborating with leaders in engineering, operations, and business units, ensuring effective teaming for critical project delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Support/lead cross functional project teams to deliver business critical enterprise technology initiatives.
- Comprehend and utilize waterfall and agile PM methodologies to manage multiple projects delivering FactSet Technology objectives.
- Create presentation material and lead stakeholder reviews of assigned efforts to ensure stakeholder input, drive progress, foster teaming, identify and resolve risks.
- Report to key executive sponsors, stakeholders and team members on project status, progress, and risk including continually managing project expectations.
- Understand and support building metrics, KPIs and OKRs to measure, monitor, and report progress of projects and strategic initiatives.
- Identify areas for continual improvement in process and execution.
- Monitor project resource demand and capacity, highlighting areas of concern.
- Communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to cross-functional project teams to gain buy-in and deliver to project schedules
- Create and deliver appropriate update tools and templates for progress reporting.
- Support Technology division portfolio activities, including project management tool governance, demand management, project management best practices; support operations related projects/initiatives.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required
- 2-5 years’ experience and responsibility in delivering critical business initiatives and/or technology projects.
- Self-motivated, highly proactive, problem solver, agile thinker, fast learner.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building relationships at all levels.
- Skilled independent worker with ability to thrive in remote settings, managing schedules across time zones.
- Adaptable to ambiguity and frequent change, understanding project methodologies (agile, waterfall, hybrid).
- Proficient in prioritizing, managing multiple projects, and meeting deadlines with attention to detail.
- Strong analytical skills with financial acumen for budgeting and expense management.
- Strong computer skills with ability to quickly learn internal tools. Confident in use and understanding of typical enterprise tools including MS Office, Teams and other core applications.
- Ability to create meaningful management updates, presentations, reports, etc. Mural, other visualization tools and advanced Excel a plus.
Highly Desired Skills:
- PMP and / or Agile certifications are a plus.
- Experience with Targetprocess and Jira PPM / collaboration tools.
- Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and experience in process definition and mapping
The budgeted salary range for this position in the states of Connecticut and New York is $75,000 - $90,000.
At FactSet, we celebrate diversity of thought, experience, and perspective. We are committed to disrupting bias and a transparent hiring process. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. FactSet participates in E-Verify
FactSet is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
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