Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. City National Bank is seeking a Project Manager to manage large and/or multiple projects that significantly impact business processes and technology firm-wide. The role involves influencing strategic direction, developing tactical plans, and providing comprehensive solutions to complex problems while managing projects from proposal to implementation.
- Responsibilities
- Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests by reviewing requirements and specifications and testing and by reviewing support and training plans to ensure they are aligned with organizational priorities, business plans and objectives
- Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management team to ensure complete and accurate definitions of business requirements and delivery of business applications
- Identifies, defines and documents complex business and technical requirements, processes and deliverables
- Develops, prepares, presents and maintains project plans, including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets and work breakdown structures and schedules
- Performs project risk assessments, including identifying key risk factors, providing effective mitigation strategies and assigning contingency action plans to both schedules and budgets
- Manages projects and teams, including applying established methodologies, using change control templates and processes; managing time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools; monitoring budgets; coordinating resource acquisition and utilization; serving as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers; and communicating regularly with project stakeholders
- Delivers systems on appropriate platforms in compliance with established technology standards, including monitoring testing, executing quality assurance checks and ensuring information technology acceptance criteria is met prior to implementation
- Analysis: Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions
- Communication: Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message
- Exercising Judgment and Decision Making: Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences
- Technical and Professional Knowledge: Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise
- Building Effective Relationships: Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals
- Client Focus: Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships
- Skills
- 12+ Years Experience
- Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or applicable degree
- Project management, enterprise implementation, leadership experience, strategic planning, business acumen, applications development, and change management or combination of education, training and experience
- PMP or equivalent certification highly preferred
- Knowledge of application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards
- Knowledge of project selection and approvals; budgeting and business case preparation and analysis; and project initiation and planning, including work breakdown structures and forecasting
- Knowledge of concepts of risk management, issue tracking, change management and requirements gathering
- Knowledge of information technology support and technical documentation
- Knowledge of principles of banking and finance and securities industry operations
- Knowledge of business planning and analysis
- Knowledge of project budget interfaces with other accounting systems
- Finance Management Experience is Plus
- Banking experience would be Plus
- Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401K
- Company Overview
- City National Bank offers a full complement of banking, trust and investment services. It is a sub-organization of City National. It was founded in 1953, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.cnb.com.
- Company H1B Sponsorship
- City National Bank has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 76 in 2025, 78 in 2024, 145 in 2023, 93 in 2022, 107 in 2021, 62 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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