Project Manager - Banking and Finance

Short Description: Bilingual Project Manager (Near native Japanese + business English) Lead projects from project planning, through execution and release. Focus on strong risk management, issue management, and customer communication. The role requires close coordination with offshore development teams, as well as the customer - to achieve the project goals. The role is as Technical PM, or in the context of Agile development, as Scrum Master. The projects relate to development and major transformative enhancements at life insurance companies/banking and finance companies. Roles and Responsibilities: Achieve the project goals of Budget, Schedule and Quality/Scope. Single point of customer communication in daily issue management, weekly status reporting, monthly sponsorship reporting. Create overall project schedule and participate in or review the project estimations. Maintain the project schedule and budget. Understand and manage technical requirements and overcome technical issues. Lead a small onsite team - participate in mentoring, hiring, conflict resolution. Perform team appraisals. Assist the sales team in identifying and leveraging new business opportunities. All the above w…