Senior Project Manager – Treasury & Payments

Job Title: Senior Project Manager – Treasury & Payments

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Type: Full-time

Work Model: Hybrid – onsite and remote

Responsibilities

• Lead end to end project delivery across initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, implementation, stabilization, and closure for complex Treasury, Payments, Wires, and financial services technology initiatives.

• Take ownership of complex projects already in progress, quickly assessing current status, outstanding deliverables, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, resource constraints, and critical path activities.

• Develop, maintain, and actively manage comprehensive project plans covering scope, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, resources, budgets, deliverables, risks, and implementation timelines.

• Partner with Program Management, Product, Operations, Technology, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, QA, and other stakeholders to align project execution with business objectives, regulatory requirements, internal controls, and modernization strategies.

• Coordinate complex system integrations, testing, UAT, production readiness, implementation, cutover, and post production activities across multiple platforms and business functions.

• Establish effective project governance and maintain clear accountability for decisions, deliverables, actions, and dependencies.

• Proactively manage RAID items—Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies—driving mitigation plans, issue resolution, escalation, and timely decision making.

• Prepare and deliver concise, executive level project reporting covering overall health, milestones, financials, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and upcoming priorities.

• Manage project budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and financial performance while identifying potential delivery or financial risks early.

• Manage relationships with external vendors, technology providers, consultants, and internal delivery teams, ensuring contractual deliverables, dependencies, timelines, and quality expectations are clearly understood and achieved.

• Facilitate project meetings, governance forums, working sessions, and executive discussions to drive alignment, accountability, and decisions.

• Coordinate stakeholder communications and change activities to support successful implementation and adoption.

• Lead delivery across geographically distributed teams, including U.S. based, offshore, and nearshore resources as applicable.

• Apply the appropriate combination of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery practices based on project complexity, milestones, dependencies, and implementation requirements.

• Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, project controls, reporting, governance, and overall execution effectiveness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.

• 7–10+ years of project management experience, preferably within banking, financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated enterprise environment.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross functional initiatives involving Treasury, Payments, Wires, Fee Income, banking operations, or financial services technology.

• Proven ownership of the complete project lifecycle, including planning, execution, monitoring, budgeting, resource management, critical path management, dependency management, risk mitigation, implementation, and closure.

• Strong experience developing and maintaining detailed integrated project plans, milestone schedules, dependency plans, and implementation roadmaps.

• Experience managing project budgets, forecasts, resources, and financial performance.

• Strong experience coordinating complex technology integrations and delivery across Product, Operations, Engineering/Technology, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, QA, and other enterprise teams.

• Experience coordinating SIT, UAT, production readiness, implementation/cutover, and post production stabilization activities.

• Proven experience managing external vendors and technology providers, including deliverables, dependencies, issues, contractual commitments, implementation activities, and stakeholder expectations.

• Strong understanding of RAID management, project governance, executive reporting, escalation management, and delivery controls.

• Strong working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies, particularly for initiatives involving milestone based delivery across multiple technical and business workstreams.

• Hands on experience with project and delivery management tools such as Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps (ADO), ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence, or comparable platforms.

• Excellent leadership, organizational, facilitation, negotiation, and problem solving skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and senior business stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and drive accountability across complex, geographically distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, SAFe, CSM, or another recognized project or Agile delivery certification.

• Experience delivering large scale payments modernization, Treasury transformation, wire transfer, or banking platform initiatives.

• Experience working with payment processing platforms, financial networks, banking integrations, or third party financial technology providers.

• Experience managing projects with significant regulatory, compliance, audit, risk, or security requirements.

• Experience joining complex initiatives already underway and successfully establishing delivery structure, governance, and momentum.

• Consulting experience working directly with enterprise clients and senior stakeholders.

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System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, CM Access, TPGS, and MOUNTAIN, LTD., are leaders in delivering workforce solutions and integrated services across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible full-time employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.